A Michael Broad Blog
I have converted a text article reporting on this study by researchers from the universities of Kentucky and California (published in The Journal of Neuroscience) into an infographic so that it can be read very quickly without the need to wade through technical terminology. The basic finding probably confirms what many dog owners and …
I think we have to look at the problem of scared cats with reference to two different circumstances. Cats can be fearful or freaked out on somebody or something temporarily or they can be in a constant state of anxiety and fear. The circumstances are different and therefore the solutions are different. We also …
The authorities want to clean up the Nairobi River. This river runs through the capital of Kenyan, Nairobi. Clearly people use it as a drain and chuck almost anything into it including the bodies of babies, cats and dogs. At the beginning of the cleanup they found human foetuses and other corpses. Fourteen bodies …
Sometimes it is too limiting to simply refer to domestic cats because some events are so big that they affect us all profoundly including our cat companions. A catastrophe has been predicted as the world heads for an extinction of insects. An analysis published in the journal Biological Conservation concludes that insects could be …
April 22 is Earth Day. It is useful to think from time to time about how we can help protect the environment and reduce our cat’s carbon footprint. There is no doubt in my mind that people are waking up to the environmental damage caused by human consumption particularly with respect to the air …
The headline caught my eye which is why I have reused it. What does it mean? How can a family who own five cats live in a litter box? It is actually not as difficult as one might imagine but I am not referring to an actual normal sized litter box that you buy …
Is the domestic cat being inadvertently exposed to tiny particles from household products containing lead, which end up damaging the cat’s kidneys? This is about making connections between various sources of information. There are three factors that indicate to me that cats could be ingesting lead which may be a factor in the catastrophic …
