NEWS AND COMMENT: The words in the title are those of the Assistant Manager of the Helen Woodward Animal Center, Tracy Woodworth. She is describing a kitten who she’s convinced has some magic in her because of the her story … Continue reading →
NEWS AND VIEWS: CATS Act is an acronym for Cat Abuse in Testing Stops Act. It’s nice to know that the members of Congress who came together to introduce this proposed law thought about naming it in such a way … Continue reading →
NEWS AND COMMENT: The Big Cat Public Safety Act is federal draft legislation which “prohibits the private ownership of big cats like lions and tigers and curbs the exploitative industry of cub-petting” in America. One of the driving forces behind … Continue reading →
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENTS): Tran Kieu Trang, 30, a Vietnamese smuggler, attempted to smuggle 127 lion claws and 36 lion teeth through Mozambique’s international airport together with, incidentally, 4.3 kg of rhino horn. She tried to confuse Sasa, a six … Continue reading →
Joe Biden and his family live with a couple of German shepherds, Champ and Major. So there will be a dog in the White House again which is obviously a good thing. Trump was the first president in a 100 … Continue reading →
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): Because of Covid-19, one animal shelter in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Assisi Animal Sanctuary, is using the Internet as a means to present their animals to potential adopters in order to comply with social distancing, to minimise … Continue reading →
NEWS AND VIEWS: Doorkins Magnificat was Southwark Cathedral’s cat and she passed away on September 30 of liver failure. She started living at the cathedral in 2013. She had been living around nearby Borough Market feeding off food provided by … Continue reading →
The charities involved have shipped 600 rescue cats and dogs from Hawaiian animal shelters in a Hercules C-130 plane to the US mainland in an historic operation. This is a really good photograph of cats on the tarmac at an … Continue reading →
The cat leaves it to the very last minute because he didn’t want to jump from the second floor but right behind him was an enormous amount of heat and flames that were far too close. They singed his backside. … Continue reading →
They put the DNA from the muscle of a chicken into a yeast and then grow the protein that way. As the yeast grows the muscle protein grows inside of it. When it reaches a certain density they pull it … Continue reading →
