A Michael Broad Blog
This story of a Utah calico cat being transported to an Amazon returns facility in California with some men’s steel capped boots in a large cardboard box has some lucky bits such as the box being torn slightly which allowed the cat to breathe more easily which was important as the cat did nor …
The details on a microchip inserted into a cat or dog do not prove unquestionably that the person stated in those details is the legal owner of the dog or cat concerned. Although, the details provide good evidence that the owner is as stated in the microchip details. To stress, though, they are not …
The caption to the picture below on the Reddit.com website is: “Our cat went missing October 2020. The animal shelter called and he is home. Pinch me I’m dreaming”. Another wandering cat is found and returned home. It is not uncommon. There are tens of thousands of stories of domestic cats being “lost” and …
We all know that sometimes domestic cats just wander away from their home. Cats get lost but it is not always because they’ve been stuck in a shed or transported away from their home by a van into which they’d climbed. Sometimes they just wander off which tells us that, depending upon the cat’s …
OPINION AND NEWS: Yes, lost cats do remember their owners even if they’ve been lost for 13 years or more. Domestic cats have excellent long-term memories and I would suggest that they remember their owners all their lives even if they have been separated the entire time. You will find many stories on the …
I’m not sure that the outcome of this story is the one that I would have wanted. Ms Amy Davies and family, from Rochdale, were in Scotland at the Rowardennen campsite on the shores of Loch Lomond in 2008 with her tortoiseshell-and-white female cat named Georgie. They were there for half term break during …
“If you ever lose faith in humanity … lose an animal and have people show you how good they are.” That is the lesson learned by a U.S. couple who was moving back to the states after living abroad in London. As they were making the trip from St. Louis to Washington D.C. their …
A Reader’s Forum story by cat rescuer Sheri Dickson. Afterword by Elisa. “𝐙𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐑” 𝐇𝐀𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟖 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 !!!! 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐭—𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭—𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐞. 𝐈 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬: Last August, a Turkish family in Clemson contacted me about rehoming their two cats …
