A Michael Broad Blog
This opportunity is available as I write this. It is a château near Toulouse, France. It’s a request to house sit a couple of domestic cats between 8-24 July 2022, on my understanding of the advert. You have the opportunity to live in this beautiful property for free provided you look after the cats. …
Introduction This is a page which tries to informatively discuss the relationship between the French living in France and the domestic and stray cat. Other than being more predisposed to abandoning cats than in other European countries, I think there is little difference in France in respect of this relationship compared to other northern …
CALAIS, FRANCE-NEWS AND COMMENT: There are reports of a big cat, thought to be a mountain lion (puma), in the area of Aux-le Chateau, south of Calais, France. The authorities want to shoot it dead because they say it would be hard to capture the animal with a tranquilizer gun. “The straying of such …
This is a great picture that I have ‘stolen’ (sorry but it is too good) from Marine Le Pen’s Instagram page. As far as I know no one has mentioned that the cat in the photo must be a Somali purebred. The Somali is a longhaired Abyssinian. I prefer the Somali to the Abyssinian …
Janine de Greef, a Belgian and a leading figure in the wartime Comet Line escape organisation during World War II was a spirited, kindhearted and charitable person who used to feed the strays cat in her neighbourhood with the finest fillet steak. She must have been an animal lover and still a very young …
This is a nice, historical picture of a young girl holding her cat while standing in a cobbled courtyard. Her mother is at the front door proudly looking on. The girl is very happy to show off her cat to the photographer. Her cat is somewhat bemused and unsettled. This is partly because the …
On the Buzfeed website this photograph is described as horrifying or terrifying. It isn’t but it is a bit weird. It tells us that the human’s fascination with cats on the Internet is not a modern phenomenon. The fascination with large cats is also a fear and this goes back many thousands of years …
FRANCE: Willy Schraen, 50, the head of the National Federation of Hunters has called for the trapping of all cats no matter whether they are stray or domestic found wandering more than 300 metres from their homes because they are killing wildlife and present an existential menace to birds and other small animals in …
