What affects us affects cats
This is a very hard story to write because Tiny Timmy touched so many lives in so many ways. To condense his life into a few paragraphs doesn’t seem a fitting tribute, because he is deserving of so much more. Timmy saved many cats in his lifetime through consumer education, although the normal life …
Martin Clunes, the well-known British actor who stars as Dr Ellingham in Doc Martin, has weighed in to try and help solve the series of crimes dating back to 2008 of the mutilation and death of, primarily, cats but also other animals in the Croydon area of London. Clunes has written a letter to …
Cape Hatteras Island is a long, skinny barrier island off the coast of North Carolina. It appears to be quite near where the well-known author about cats, Elisa-Black Taylor lives. She has written for PoC for many years. The mission statement of the Friends of Felines Cape Hatteras Island is to gradually and humanely …
Back in 1978 there was a firefighters’ strike. The army where called out to step into their shoes. The army does not have fire trucks. They have their own firefighting vehicles called “Green Goddesses” – a sort of pared-down cheap version of a fire truck painted green and built in the mid 1950s. On …
A Pennsylvania man and his wife are in shock after the family cat escaped and was eventually killed by a police officer. Now the family wants justice for their cat, who was shot when the cat “hissed” at the officer. Tom Newart of North Catasuqua and his wife rescued 6-year-old Sugar when she was …
Cattle herders are still routinely poisoning lions across Africa in order to protect their cows. They don’t know the consequences of what they’re doing. Conservationists have warned that poisoning lions in this reckless manner has huge knock-on effects. Other animals eat the same poisoned meat and they die too. Then there is tourism. This …
The agriculture minister of Germany, Christian Schmidt, has declared that male cats who have not been neutered will not be allowed to leave the family home and roam free. What about unspayed females? I suppose the same rule applies. It appears that for the first time Germany has joined other countries such as New …
“Pitchfork your Cat for CHARITY” is (was) a Facebook group featuring dozens of horrendous photographs and videos of cats being mauled and tortured. It follows on from another Facebook group which I mentioned in an earlier article called “Halloween cat Punt Event“. This is another example of the work of the trolls and troglodytes …
