A Michael Broad Blog
On Reddit.com a person (Reddit username: u/DoctaEiffel) posted the headline Dumped at a shelter after 18 years because his family “didn’t want cat hair anymore,” now he lives in our sanctuary. Welcome, Pumpkin! It has caught the eye of Internet users. Newsweek published an article on it. The comments on Reddit.com indicate dismay and …
The word “investing” is a great word for cat rescue workers. Through genuine commitment and tireless effort combined with patience and persistence, they invest in each individual rescue cat. This video is an excellent example. And when you invest that much into an individual cat you become heavily bonded. It must be very hard …
I am being quite flippant in publishing this photograph on this page because behind the picture of a cat who looks a bit like Jack Nicholson in the film The Shining is a serious message. This cat is clearly upset and, for a reason that I don’t know, confined to a cage. It is …
A sweet, almost completely white, rescue cat has a black marking down the middle of his face in the shape of a phallus. This prevented him being adopted at a rescue centre. Eventually a man, whose father’s name is Richard, adopted the cat. For obvious reasons this man decided that Richard would be a …
Cats Protection have a beautiful story on their website about Dave who at the young age of 25 became terminally ill with a rare form of bone cancer. His wife, Olivia, had been thinking about adopting a cat for some time and they agreed to take the plunge at this very difficult time. They …
Bubba the Cat, a war cat in the Middle East has made it to the US, or will do in due course, thanks to Sgt. Rode, PAWS OF WAR and the generous public who donated sufficient funds quickly to allow the relocation to happen. And the military deserves praise too for allowing the event …
NEWS AND VIEWS: This is an interesting cat rescue story that requires comment. It looks as though the story comes from Europe but we are not told. It concerns a female, purebred cat, an Exotic Shorthair, whose name is Bean. Bean was at a cat rescue centre for a year and advertised online as …
Volgograd, Russia – NEWS AND VIEWS: Well, this is not hot-off-the-press news as it’s about two years old but it is the first time that I’ve seen it and it’s a very tense video. It’s actually quite near the bone in terms of being able to watch it because we are watching a cat …
