What affects us affects cats
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 …
I’d like to discuss karma. I’ve seen it happen on the Internet in respect of animal abuse of various kinds. My mind turns to Walter Palmer, the Minnesotan dentist who shot Cecil the Lion. A person has to be pretty arrogant and insensitive with a disbelief in animal sentience to be able to shoot …
Desiree Carlos, an author and an animal advocate living and working in the Philippines, has written an interesting and useful article for the Manila Standard website. It’s about karma, dogs and cats. In the Philippines there appears to be quite a high number of stray cats and dogs. And Desiree was taught by her …
First we had the freakish wildfires, dust storms, hail and floods of Australia in the form of nature’s retaliation for the Australians’ abuse of feral cats, kangaroos and camels and the climate by mining coal extensively. Now we have China’s deadly coronavirus, nature’s way of telling humans that they can’t indecently abuse nature’s animals …
Australians have been trying to exterminate feral cats on Kangaroo Island with 1080 poison ejected from an evil device. The purpose? To protect precious Australian native species such as the endangered southern brown bandicoot which lives in the ‘under storey’. Now, bandicoot habitat has been destroyed by two fires which tore through the area …
Towards the end of 2013, when Dejion Roberson brutally killed a cat by kicking it like a football into power lines he was arrested and charged with animal cruelty but he was not punished as he received only probation. Now karma has been done. Roberson has been found dead in an isolated area in the …
I was listening the radio this morning at 4 am, as I usually do because I wake up early these days, and the presenter, Christo, was discussing karma with listeners who were phoning-in giving their views. When an intelligent young man, Terry, spoke about his cat – meow – my ears pricked up. A …
