A Michael Broad Blog
Let’s Adopt! Global (LAG) is an animal rescue organization founded in Turkey in 2008 by Viktor Larkhill and Fulya Ulusoy. Since 2011 it has had headquarters in Massachusetts, USA. It is a non-profit animal rescue. Yet for some reason which I am yet to fathom it courts massive controversy. One possible reason, it is said, is …
Although a South Korean experiment of forcing people online to use real name appears to have failed to clean up behaviour such as trolling, it is my opinion that forcing online commenters to use their real name would change the face of the internet. When you study the South Korean experiment you see that …
There’s a situation taking place in the animal advocacy community that has led me to the decision not to write about cats who have already been rescued who need help with funding for medical care. It’s not something I take lightly but with great grief as it’s not only myself being attacked in comments, …
By Sarah Hartwell On the face of it, social networking forums for outing bad breeders are a good idea, right? They identify backyard breeders, breeders who sell sickly kittens, and cat hoarders. I’ve found that it’s not that straightforward because such forums can be full of those with axes to grind or grudges to …
This article is in praise of internet website cat trolls. Why am I praising those who choose to hate cats, especially feral cats and declare it to the world? Read on. I’ll use the article I wrote on Kellie’s Wester’s rescued kittens as a prime example titled “How badly things can go wrong when …
Jim Stevenson has used hundreds of aliases to protect his true identity. He uses an endless number of usernames and uses proxy servers or whatever they are to prevent people from tracing him to his computer IP address. Despite that I have unearthed him lock-stock and barrel and here he is in a video. …
Facebook tells us that on Saturday 31st October at 8 pm (EDT) there is a ‘Halloween Cat Punt’ event. The invitation to it is worldwide and so far 62 people have said that they are going to it. There are four ‘maybes’ and 295 people have been invited. The numbers are climbing. This is …
I have written this article in response to several remarks made on the article about two women who enjoy hunting with a bow and arrow (opens a new window). I’ve been told that I write things that could be considered slander or libel. I’d like for everyone to know that the articles I do …
