A Michael Broad Blog
There are eight photos of cats rescued during Hurricane Harvey which I gathered together after trawling the internet for a considerable time. There are far more photographs of rescued dogs. I am not sure what this signifies if anything. It might be that dogs being rescued are more photogenic because dogs can be picked …
The cat rescue community is in mourning this week following the tragic death of one of our own. A well-known and beloved cat transporter of death row rescues was killed in a traffic accident over the weekend. Janice Lockamy, 60, was killed in a car accident July 2 while transporting 21 cats from Tampa …
After learning the identity of the person who had their cats taken recently in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, I made the decision to ask for his side of the story. I’ll refer to him as Kenneth for privacy reasons. Kenneth and his family have been rescuing furbabies for years and found homes for many of …
The circumstances surrounding the seizing of 65 shelter cats in 2013 under court order generated a suspicion that the RSPCA had acted in a way which lacked probity. Nonetheless the cats were seized from a shelter managed and owned by Sarah Mellanby, 43, of Teeside, UK. You can read about how the cats were …
This is an interesting cat rescue story with a happy ending. I think the chances of this happening are very small indeed but happen it did. A woman, Cathleen Cavin, adopted an animal shelter kitten who they named Ozzy. Ozzy had a sibling brother they left behind. They were separated. Cathleen felt guilty about …
Frank Lewis, a sadistic and dangerous teenager, broke into a cat sanctuary in Wales and stole ten cats in a cage. He cut their legs to make them lame so that his hunting dogs could catch them. Three cats were mauled to death in different places near the Ty Nant Cat Sanctuary. Four cats …
This is definitely a first. I have never seen anything like it. And it is very nice. A furniture store, Furniture Village, in Preston, Lancashire, England has agreed to place cut out photos of named rescue cats on their furniture as seen in the pictures below to promote adoptions. A spokesperson said that it …
Veterinarian Ms Jacqui Paterson tipped off the RSPCA about a cat sanctuary run by Sarah Mellanby. I have to presume that the tipoff was that the sanctuary was badly run and that the RSPCA needed to raid it and seize the cats. On the face of it this was a case of a cat …
