What affects us affects cats
Why did this woman shoot her sick cat rather than take him to a veterinarian? We are told that a 73-year-old woman, Nancy Just, allowed her cat to become ill for months and then asked a neighbour to shoot him (and offered to pay). When he refused she shot her cat the next day …
This case of animal cruelty out of Branson isn’t an “alleged” tragedy where someone could be falsely accused. A teen and his friend dragged the family cat to death after tying it to the bumper of an SUV. Then bragged about it on Facebook in a group with over 40,000 members. A video was also …
I wrote about Mohammed Aljaleel on November 30 last year after his sanctuary, Ernesto’s House, had been bombed by Assad’s regime or the Russians. At that time he was probably the only cat and dog rescuer in the city and he was fairly famous internationally. He had heroically rescued the cats of fleeing families …
Ian Brady, who went on to become Britain’s most evil serial killer, was 10 years old when he killed for the first time. He threw a cat of the top of a tenement building in Glasgow, Scotland. Years later he told his lover and partner in crime, Myra Hindley, that the cat screeched all …
People like to hide behind language when discussing the death of a pet which is why so often the word “euthanasia” actually means “to kill”. The phrase “convenience euthanasia” means to kill a healthy pet on the request of the pet’s owner. The online version of the Telegraph newspaper in August 2016 reported that, …
An estimated 750,000 largely healthy pets were deliberately killed by the British during September 1939 which was the month during which Germany invaded Poland and Britain declared war on Germany. Nearly all of these companion animals were cats and dogs. A reporter at the time stated that there were 7m cats in Britain. One …
You may remember the bizarre case of Jalan Greer. He is a young black man, 23 years of age. He has or had a large following on Twitter and Instagram. He was admired by many until now. Weird and disturbing cat sounds were emanating from his apartment. It transpired that these were the sounds …
WMTW-TV reports that Michael Herrmann killed the cats with his bare hands. Astonishing. Truly crazy but he is not crazy. The cats were owned by a family friend who was staying with him. Herrmann told animal control officers what he’d done and explained he did not want the cats in the house because his …
