cat registration / Euthanasia / government / Human to cat relationship / mandatory registration / Zoonotic Diseases
September 15, 2023
Cast your mind back to the Covid-19 pandemic which incidentally has not entirely finished. People are still dying of it. And remind yourself that this is a zoonosis or a zoonotic disease, one that...
abortion / Animal Rescue / burnout and compassion fatigue / Cat News / cat rescue / cat rescuer / Cat shelters / Euthanasia / spaying
August 29, 2023
She plies her trade in America. Her name is Kay Banks. She is the owner of Tabby Tails Cat Rescue. She’s on TikTok and appears to be working alone in taking cats from cat...
Cat News / homeless / Human to cat relationship / killing cats / lost cat / lost cat
July 8, 2023
NEWS AND VIEWS – SAN JOSE, UNITED STATES: Nathan Winograd has told me about a news item which is concerning to animal advocates. The NBC video covers it nicely. And the video mentions the...
animal abuse / cat death / Cat News / cat welfare / crime / human behavior / human to human relationship / killing cats / neighbour dispute / trapping cats / violence and aggression
June 3, 2023
OPINION and comment on the latest news. Background: we know that in the United States there are many property owners who hate domestic and stray cats wandering onto their property. Cats can wander as...
Animal laws / China / China / killing cats / Killing feral cats / Kittens / kittens / Law
May 17, 2023
The tweet states: “The atrocities just continue. May 10, a netizen photographed a man killing a kitten near Building 16, Yixinyuan, Pingyi County, Linyi City, Shandong, China. The cat has been taken away by...
Cat Products / dangers of cat products / flea collar / flea treatments / killed / killing cats / pesticides / poison / product reviews
May 17, 2023
This is another highly disturbing story about killing cats and dogs. It is sad and morbidly fascinating that when you search Twitter for tweets on ‘killing cats’ these sorts of stories pop up. Often...
Animal Cruelty / China / China / fake information / internet social media / social media influence
May 10, 2023
This is the tweet using shorthand language: “Someone needs 2 do smt abt this, #CatBlender there will be a group of Chinese guys going live tomorrow and they’re planning on hurting and killing multiple...
human behavior / human to human relationship / Video / video games / Videos / violence and aggression
May 10, 2023
This is a disturbing and confusing story but I have gradually unravelled it since posting this page. And the wording of the title I have used for this post is confusing as well. It...
children / developmental issues / human behavior / kids / teaching children / violence and aggression
May 2, 2023
There are some computer games in which the players have the opportunity to kill domestic cats. Is this sensible? Does it encourage the players to progress to killing real cats? Is there a connection...
animal abuse / cat death / Cat News / cat welfare / influencer
April 22, 2023
NEWS AND COMMENT: This story illustrates how brands rapidly distance themselves from any partner with whom they work who’s been involved in animal abuse. And it doesn’t seem to matter whether it happened many...
animal abuse / Animal Cruelty / Animal laws / Animal Rescue / Animal Rights / animal shelters / Cat shelters / Euthanasia / gas chambers / mental suffering of animals / Sodium pentobarbital
April 1, 2023
Utah bans the use of gas chambers to kill shelter dogs and cats but I’m told by Nathan Winograd that in the USA there are two states were gassing unwanted rescue cats and dogs...
cat death / Cat News / coronavirus pandemic / natural disaster
March 2, 2023
NEWS AND VIEWS: It has come to light in a Channel 4 interview involving Lord Bethell, the former deputy health minister from 2020-2021, that in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, the British...
March 1, 2023
It is a peculiar question to me but some people do request in their will that the executor of their will has their healthy companion animal, usually a cat or dog, euthanized (actually killed)...
February 17, 2023
This is a discussion about whether shooting cats as a type of euthanasia is humane or inhumane. Why am I discussing it? Because a lot of people shoot a lot of cats, primarily feral...
January 16, 2023
The war against domestic and feral cats in Australia continues unabated. It looks like a war to me and in line with that analogy, the latest policy of a north-west Sydney council, Hornsby Shire,...
