A Michael Broad Blog
NEWS AND COMMENT – SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, USA: Shelter Neuter Return (SNR) is a fairly new method of dealing with friendly domestic cats who have been picked up by neighbours because they are apparently without an owner and taken to a shelter. The shelter does not find a new home for these friendly cats …
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 Hawaiian airport by George F Lee. It shows the Hawaiian Humane Society admissions manager …
EDMONTON, CANADA: You may remember this case from spring 2018. It was quite high profile at the time and was treated as a serious event by the Humane Society resulting in Mariah Berini being charged with causing or permitting animals to be in distress under the Animal Protection Act and failing to provide adequate …
You may have heard of him; his name is Mister Bruce Willis. I’m told that he spent six years as an unloved, lonely stray cat on the streets during which he acquired significant health issues which is unsurprising bearing in mind the life he was forced to lead. His health problems included an eye …
NEWS/VIEWS – ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA: The video is interesting and not hard to watch. I don’t want to dwell on the ins and outs of this story too much as it is too sad. I dislike seeing cats in this situation. But I’ll cover some basic points. The cats were left inside the car without …
What sort of person could throw away kittens with the garbage? I discuss their mentality.
On Twitter there is a video of the interior of the shelter facility at the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region (HSPPR) and it is entirely empty of animals. The tweet by Denver 7 News reports that HSPPR said that all their animals have been adopted this week. On the HSPPR website there …
Wisconsin Humane Society (WHS) provide both the care for the rescued cats, the photography and the collage on their Facebook page, which I think is excellent despite the subject matter being depressing. I am sorry for this aspect of the photography. The collage does, though, bring home to us how some people end up …
