What affects us affects cats
I am angry (as the capital letters indicate) at the comedian Trevor Noah who is all over the news media online as you can imagine. I would like to briefly throw my hat into the ring because I can’t resist it. This is not, clearly, a general news media website and therefore I will …
Joe Biden doesn’t know how to pronounce the name of the UK’s new Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak. He makes a complete mess of it in this video. He’s making a speech and what annoys me is that Biden is being disrespectful of the UK and the new Prime Minister, and his audience are also …
King Charles III’s Coronation is scheduled to take place next May. He wants it to be a shortened version and less expensive which better suits the current cost of living crisis. However, the Coronation is a deeply historical event going back aeons and part of it includes the anointing of the Monarch with holy …
NEWS AND OPINION/COMMENT: In her memoir, “I’ll Try Anything Once”, Dame Prue Leith has admitted that her mother, Margaret Inglis, an actress, told her to drown newborn kittens because they were unwanted. Leith states: “My mother and I, then 11, had just drowned some kittens and for weeks I imagined those poor dead creatures. …
NEWS AND COMMENT-CALIFORNIA, USA: California with New York State are, it is my belief, the two most progressive US states in respect of animal welfare and California have progressed animal welfare in their state a little further in enacting (bringing into law) an act which bans the purchase of dogs, cats and rabbits purchased …
NEWS AND COMMENT – I EXPRESS MY OPINION: The animal shelter in McDuffie County, Georgia, USA closed its doors in late July 2022 for what was meant to be a renovation project, but it looks as if it shut up shop in order to rebuild itself and provide services to the local residents that …
NEWS AND COMMENT-CHINA: An art teacher, Luo, delivering an online presentation because of Covid, was sacked when her pet cat inadvertently entered the presentation and could be seen by students. In all the cat appeared five times but did not interfere with the lesson, the teacher said. She felt compelled to challenge the school …
NEWS AND COMMENT-SAN DIEGO, USA: There is an interesting back story to the Facebook announcement by the San Diego Humane Society which posted that a Ukrainian refugee was able to reunite with her beloved Pomeranian after the dog had completed a 28-day rabies quarantine required by US law. The woman had entered the US …
