What affects us affects cats
The CNN columnist John D. Sutter has written a controversial article entitled “The argument for eating dog“. It’s a long article and for me it rambles too much and doesn’t come to a conclusion really. It is not clear and clean enough but I believe the point he is making is that it is …
The recent extensively reported incident, which was captured on video, of the tabby cat, Tara, who with great courage and passion saved a toddler, Jeremy, from a savage attack by a dog should not distract attention from some critical self-analysis. For me, the cat’s behaviour was that of a mother protecting her vulnerable kitten …
Heart sticking, also called a “heart shot” and more scientifically, an “intercardiac injection” is a way of killing an animal at a US shelter. I have no idea how commonplace it is. It is probably fairly rare. I hope so because it is cruel and painful. The idea is to inject pentobarbital sodium directly into …
By Elisa Black-Taylor Does the news media prefer to cover dog stories rather than cat stories? I always thought the media would be unbiased, until many of my rescue friends clued me in that cats get less publicity in times of emergency than do dogs. There’s a situation going on right now at the …
What happens to rescue cats and dogs at a typical animal rescue center? The chart below is self explanatory. Cats get a bad deal compared to dogs. The difference is stark. Why? There are probably two main reasons: (1) some cats are allowed to roam and not all of these cats are neutered or …
