What affects us affects cats
The sheriff who is investigating this alleged crime gives the impression he is not interested in it. Surprised? You want justice? I don’t think you are going to get it. This is a follow up to the veterinarian bow and arrow killing of a ginger tabby cat in Texas. If everything that has been …
Centralia, Washington, USA: You may remember the tragic tale of Freddy, a tabby cat, who was entangled in barbed wire on a fence. Someone called the police and Officer Philip Reynolds turned up. He decided to kill the cat with a hammer. There were several blows. He decided that he couldn’t use his firearm. …
This is a cat story from the United States, specifically Greater Lewis County in Washington. Freddy was an outdoor cat. He was trapped in barbed wire on top of a fence (the barbed wire was illegal, I believe). Freddy’s caretaker was Karen Thorson. We don’t know why a police officer arrived at the scene …
This is a petition on the Causes website. The link is at the base of the page. Elisa has written a lot on this subject on the Examiner website. Between cats and dogs, dogs are far more frequently killed by cops based on what I read but cats get a fair share of cop …
The police shoot dead a man at an animal shelter who was there to hand in a stray cat. What happened? Despite the hard, detailed facts being somewhat sketchy, this appears, at first sight, as another one of those cases of police overreaction and an overzealous approach to using a firearm against a citizen …
It’s catching on: the new cat craze. You call the police and tell them that you are locked in your bedroom because your cat has gone berserk and you’re terrified. Do you remember Lux, the vicious black-and-white Himalayan cat that went berserk and which Jackson Galaxy had trouble figuring out why? We have a new …
The cat rescue world in upstate South Carolina is in a panic this morning after the arrest this week of one of our own. This is the story of a woman known for her compassion toward cats. Julianne Westberry, 46, of Belton (Anderson County) has been arrested and charged with ill treatment of animals. …
This is the biggest story happening right now in the world of animal advocates. While this trouble escalated over a dog, it could just as easily have been over a cat. I’m listing the articles I’ve covered on this case at the end of this article (Michael added a link to them). If you …
