What affects us affects cats
For as long as humans have been able to wonder, we’ve asked the same question: What happens after we die? Religions offer visions of heaven, reincarnation, or spiritual continuation. Science, on the other hand, is often seen as coldly dismissive of anything resembling an afterlife. But what if that divide is artificial? What if …
In a twist that would make nature smirk, France’s most recent hunting season turned its weapons inward: 11 hunters dead, over 90 others injured, many seriously, all at the hands of fellow enthusiasts. It’s as if the forest finally bit back—not with fangs or claws, but with the misplaced bullets and botched judgment of …
In India, a man was fatally trampled by a wild elephant as he tried to take a selfie in Maharashtra’s western region. India reportedly has recorded the highest number of selfie deaths followed by the US and Russia. A man in southern India was mauled to death earlier in February by an Asiatic lion after he …
There are some articles on the internet which ask whether a domestic cat would eat their owner. It is sort of clickbait stuff as it sounds gruesome and as if the humble domestic cat has the power to be an evil predator of the most heinous kind, biting into the hand that feeds them …
It could be an example of karma. It is all over the news. A male elephant charged at a vehicle carrying tourists in Zambia and unended the vehicle resulting in the death of an 80-year-old female American tourist. Another was injured and flown to hospital. The karma suggestion is mine being an animal advocate …
Perhaps in France grieving over the passing of a loved pet is a societal taboo and in which case the writer for Le Monde is correct but I don’t think he is. I think he/she is out of date in their thinking. They were writing about a gym teacher’s elegy in a novel which …
A domestic cat cannot kill a person outright. That’ll apply to any person from a toddler to an adult. But the salient word is “outright”. There is at least one way a domestic cat can kill a person and it’s happened. You can probably guess what it is. Bacteria. Domestic cats, like humans, have …
