A Michael Broad Blog
This is a short note about leaving a bequest of your cat and caregiving money to someone to look after your cat or cats in your will. You’ll need two documents. We are told that more and more people are doing this whereas at one time it was the domain of celebrities such as …
The image is a modified recreation of a Nick Newman image made for The Times newspaper yesterday. If you are not British you might not get the joke which is that Nigel Farage, the head of the Reform party (right-wing), has been accused of being a Putin apologist and appeaser because he admires Putin’s …
This is a rather predictable warning about the forthcoming Mother’s Day on Sunday 10th March 2024 but necessary nonetheless. It is a day when family members might give mum (mom in the US) some flowers and most of the world now knows that: I searched for flower varieties to give to mums on Mother’s …
I agree with the thoughts of a person posting on the Reddit.com website in which they apply a lot of good sense on the topic of giving a pet as a surprise present and videoing the giving of the gift. They are strongly against it as am I. But people don’t like to be …
In the UK, you can buy this cat lovers mug set on Amazon. I feel confident that you can do the same thing in America and elsewhere. It caught my eye. I think that the design and concept is very clever. But they’re probably more a decorative piece than a usable couple of mugs. …
This impressive owl has made itself look much larger and it rocks from side to side as a means to display body language at a gray tabby-and-white cat who was probably wandering around his backyard or somewhere nearby when he encountered the owl. It is a cute stand-off between two different species, both predators. …
It’s unfair. Three-quarters of dog owners bought presents for their dog compared to 68% of cat owners according to a RSPCA survey in the UK. As expected men tend to buy presents for dogs and women buy them for cats. As may also be expected 59% of dog owners treated their dog to some …
Rather than giving the gift of a kitten or puppy or any other pet this Christmas, Doris Day suggests that a much better decision would be to give a gift certificate from a local shelter or rescue organisation and then wait a while before redeeming it so that the decision to use it is …
