What affects us affects cats
The time has come for the judge to punish Robert Farmer, a notorious cat torturer and killer who pleaded guilty to all 21 counts felony counts of animal cruelty which took place in a quiet San Jose neighbourhood last year. Good people are campaigning to put polite pressure on the judge, the Honorable Judge …
The worry is that this serial cat killer and mutilator will suddenly turn to humans and start slaughtering them. Whereas about a year ago this serial killer was killing (by blunt force trauma) around three cats a week, he is now doing it 5-6 times a week. The killer invariably mutilates the dead cat …
I’ll say right away that the cats survived. They are microchipped. They went missing. Their names are Sophie and Tiggs. It happened in the UK. They were stolen with the intention of killing them in a novel way by placing them in pillowcases and then throwing them onto electrified railway tracks. While trying to …
In Arlington, Texas and in Boise, Idaho, domestic and feral cats are going missing and foul play is suspected. Judging by the nature of the stories I think we can say with some certainty that foul play is clearly the cause by which I mean someone, or a group of people, are killing or …
I had never heard of Ryan Edwards until know. He was the fiancé of Maci Bookout (great name!) who was one of four stars of the USA reality TV show 16 & Pregnant/Teen Mom. It appears to be a show which explores teenage motherhood and the pressures that come from it. Ryan showed indifference …
They say that gross animal cruelty is a precursor to violence against people. I think it applies very strongly in this instance. A 24-year-old student from Macau living in Taipei, Taiwan brutally killed a tabby cat belonging to a vegetarian restaurant owner because he said that he was in a bad mood. He wanted …
This makes me mad. It makes me sad. It’s about education – the dire lack of it. It is about how a lack of education can and often does lead to cat abuse and cruelty. Ignorance is behind all cat cruelty; all of it, and I hate ignorance. What I’m saying is that ignorance …
In what has been described as the most ambitious conservation project (I wouldn’t describe it as that) the government of New Zealand plans to kill, over a period of 35 years, all predators who prey on birds in New Zealand. This of course must include feral cats. New Zealand has a not too dissimilar …
