What affects us affects cats
John Hinckley Jr has been held at a psychiatric hospital for over 30 years as a result of his attempted assassination of the then president Ronald Reagan and the shooting of three others outside the Washington Hilton hotel in 1981. Latterly he has been living in a room at St Elizabeths Hospital (a psychiatric …
This is quite interesting and is a follow-up to a previous article which I wrote about a man, Kent Wilson, who shot his neighbour’s purebred cat (Oriental SH) believing that he was feral when he clearly was not a feral cat. The cat was on his properly. Wilson acted illegally. It is interesting because …
In Chesapeake, perhaps in all of the state of Virginia (the story is not clear), it is a crime to feed abandoned cats and find them good homes. The crime is peculiar and hardly fits the activity. Debbie Manzione was charged with “harboring a stray animal for more than 14 days” because she was …
This is another example of horrendous cat cruelty (which I refuse to dwell on because it might affect your mental health) by an allegedly mentally ill person whose mental health is being evaluated. I wrote a similar article on March 14, 2014 about a woman who did something something similar and equally cruel. The …
This is an interesting story about conflict between two people with very different attitudes towards companion animals. On the one hand we have Gail Benoit, who sees companion animals as “things” to trade for profit without regard to health and welfare. She was convicted of animal cruelty for selling sick and malnourished puppies in …
There are many examples, three of which have quite recently been reported in the press, of people killing their neighbour’s cat and excusing their behaviour by saying that they thought they were killing a feral cat. As if that is an excuse. As if that could be an excuse. It can’t. The law does …
In one town in New Zealand, Timaru, 50 cats have gone missing we are told. Eighteen have disappeared in the past 18 months. The interesting and rather strange aspect of this story is that some of the women owners believe that a certain woman is involved in the disappearance but the police have investigated …
‘Humans are more important than cats so I don’t care.’ The words of Norman Wilson, 48, who was jealous of the love the family cats received from his disabled wife so he beat a very young cat, Tiny Tim, to death. But it does not stop there. Ten other family cats have died in …
