A Michael Broad Blog
It’s interesting to compare the percentage of homeless cats and dogs against the total population of these animals in various countries. It tells us about the quality of pet caretaking in those countries. And on this page, I also present added information as provided by the State of Pet Homelessness Index for which I …
A friend of mine living in Mumbai says that he has no knowledge of residents eating cat and dog meat. Fair enough. However, the Mumbai Mirror has an article dated 28 Dec 2018 which states that it is certain that Mumbai residents do eat dog meat sometimes and it is suggested that they also …
I am an instant fan of Shraddha Kapoor. I had no idea who she was until about five minutes ago when I discovered some nice things about her. She posted to her Instagram account a very short video of a feral cat being rescued near her home. She has 51.9 million followers on her …
INDIA: I have written about this before but I have conveniently bumped into a security camera video, which I think is interesting so I am revisiting the story. In summary, the basic story is that some residents of a block of apartments in Mumbai were unhappy with the presence of stray cats, one of …
Mumbai, India – opinion/news story: The enduring battle between simply destroying stray and feral cats or taking the more humane route of TNR was recently played out in block of flats in Mumbai, India and the outcome is surprising for me. The report comes from The Hindu online newspaper. A resident, Arvind Rao, of …
PETA in America (the home of PETA) has a clear policy on how to deal with feral cats and it distinctly clashes with the policy of PETA in India. PETA in America PETA does not advocate killing all feral cats as a humane way to deal with them. They believe that TNR (trap-neuter-release) is …
By H S Himamshu (India) Introduction by Michael This is a story from H S Himamshu, who commented on a page about some Indians (very rarely) eating domestic cats. We exchanged comments and then this story from India appeared in the following comment. It is reproduced verbatim. Please try and read it slowly to …
As far as I am concerned, this is a Bhutanese Abyssinian cat. What I mean is that she is a naturally occurring, random bred, community cat that has a very close resemblance to the well-known Abyssinian cat, which is a purebred, pedigree cat. I don’t know whether this has any significance in any way …
