A Michael Broad Blog
Johor Baru, Malaysia-News and comment: I am not sure whether you want to read about this. The reason that I am reporting it is because it is unusual and it does show that in today’s world there is still bestiality; grossly inappropriate behaviour resulting in severe cat cruelty and in this instance death. This …
KOTA KINABALU, SABAH, EAST MALAYSIA-NEWS AND COMMENT: This extraordinary man, who might be educated but who has been homeless for a long time, cannot bear to let homeless and vulnerable cats suffer and so despite being in dire straits himself he helps them out. He lives near a dump site and because he helps …
Yes, Chomel, a cat, is the lead character in a film by filmmaker Jason Chong who is the man behind Malaysian Film Festival 29 winner Adiwiraku. Reading between the lines I sense that this film was motivated by the Covid pandemic. As we all know, it was and remains a time when people work …
Malaysia is in the Far East and the Far East is good for wild cat species but it is getting worse because of human population growth which leads to all sorts barriers to the survival of the wild cats such as housing developments, deforestation, mining, poaching, roads, modifications to the habitat to accommodate humans …
It is nice to (1) see a follow up to a conclusion of this act of animal cruelty and (2) that the criminals were punished. The crime took place in a suburb of the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur between 12.54am and 1am on 11th September 2018. I wrote about it at the time …
A Bangladeshi man who looked after 12 cats in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was stabbed to death in front of the house where he lived. The violent incident was kicked off when the Bangladeshi man accidentally sprayed the person who killed him with water from what I understand to be a cat’s …
This a first for me and perhaps for you. A tiny kitten (who, incidentally has Turkish Van markings) had drowned in a flood in Sungai Petani, Kedah, Malaysia. Some great cat stories come out of Asia. The kitten was trapped inside the roof of a building. Perhaps the flood had been so bad the …
This heroic, disabled guy, Abu Fathiyyaturahma Menk Abdun Mujtahid, 30, saw a kitten clinging onto the concrete sides of a steeply slooping storm drain filled with water. The kitten was sliding down the concrete towards the water. Mujtahid was in his wheelchair on the sidewalk running parallel to the drain. There’s about 12 feet …
