In the UK, if a dog injuries or kills your cat the police might not become involved

The police might do nothing if a dog attacks and injures or kills your cat because they might assess the dog is not being dangerously out of control.

A story in the online newspaper GB News interests me. A large dog attacked Becky Quane’s cat outside her home in Birmingham, UK. Her cat was killed. The police refused to become involved. She felt helpless as she wanted the dog’s owner to be prosecuted for a crime. Tricky assessment The law in this …

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“My neighbour’s dogs keep attacking my cats, is there anything I can do?”

Neighbour's dogs repeatedly escape neighbour's yard and attacks a man's cats

The question is on a social media website. The person who posted it says that his neighbour has some big dogs and has a backyard but he doesn’t have a lock on the gate. Sometimes the dogs open the gate. His cats are indoor/outdoor cats. The dogs have attacked his cats a few times. …

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Who’s to blame when dog kills cat on the Sunshine Coast, Australia?

Sunshine coast Australia

There is a tortuously tricky decision to be made about which owner is liable in terms of criminal behaviour and compensation under a civil claim after a cat wandered onto a next-door neighbour’s property (front garden) and was killed by the dog living at that property on the Sunshine Coast in Australia. The complexity …

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UK government rejects a law which would prevent foxhunting near residential areas

Mini

NEWS AND COMMENT: You may remember the death of a tortoiseshell cat called Mini. She was killed by foxhounds who were being exercised in Madron, near Penzance, UK in March 2021. As I recall she was sitting on a fence and very hounds charged through the residential area where she lived. RELATED: Foxhounds Charge …

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Why did Martha Stewart’s dogs kill her Persian cat mistaking her as an ‘interloper’?

Burial of Princess Peony

NEWS AND COMMENT: On Instagram, Martha Stewart tells us, 20 hours ago from the time of this post, that four of her dogs mistook her calico Persian cat Princess Peony for an “interloper” and “killed her defenceless little self. I will miss her badly. RIP beauty”. I will miss her very badly’ – Martha …

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Buddy demonstrates the triumph of the feline spirit over his abusers’ intentions

Buddy recovering. On the mend.

NEWS AND COMMENT: You may remember the story of Buddy. He’s a little black cat who was minding his own business on a porch in Philadelphia. He preferred to live outside but was cared for by his owner. A couple of guys walked by with their Pitbull-type dogs and set the dogs upon him. …

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Cat savaged by 2 dogs makes muffins when petted

Buddy making muffins while petted despite his injuries

NEWS AND COMMENT-PHILADELPHIA: I want to focus on the good part of this unpleasant story. It is a story of good and bad, of goodness and evil. I see it as a paradigm example of animal cruelty in which on the one hand you have the young male perpetrators who arguably didn’t really know …

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