NEWS AND COMMENT – THE NETHERLANDS: An extraordinary feline feat of survival has popped up in the news media. A Dutch tabby cat was trapped in a house when the owner left it on July 1, 2021. Police are looking … continue reading…
NEWS AND ANALYSIS: if you read the online news media on the subject of cats as I have over more than a decade you have to notice a very gradual trend towards domestic cat confinement to protect wildlife. Attitudes are … continue reading…
The Catboat of Amsterdam – De Poezenboot – is world famous. It might be the best known cat rescue anywhere. The setting is magical and it quickly became a tourist attraction which helped to bring in much needed funds. Here … continue reading…
The headline is “1,000 feral cats shot in the Netherlands as more provinces consider a cull”. Over three and a half years about 1,000 feral cats have been shot in the provinces of Utrecht and Friesland in the Netherlands. These … continue reading…
Netherlands (Mid May, 2015): A train travelling from Utrecht to The Hague made an emergency stop for a cat on the tracks. The passengers had no idea what was going on until the conductor returned from collecting a kitten from … continue reading…
This must be the ultimate cat-trapped-in-car-engine-compartment story. You know how cats like to crawl into the engine compartment of a car to keep warm and sometimes they are injured. Well, in this instance three tabby kittens living in Holland climbed … continue reading…
