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Cape Peninsula caracal

Roads and rat poison, the biggest killers of the caracal on Cape Peninsula

NEWS AND COMMENT: It’s reported that there are fewer than 60 caracals remaining on the Cape Peninsula, that beautiful part of the world which is loved by many people. Clearly there are too many people and too many cars and too many roads. When you build roads across the habitat of a medium-sized wild cat …

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Is this a dying cat or dog besides the road or a piece of bark against which a dog had peed?

Is your significant other willing to do the “double check”?

Nathan Winograd has a nice way of checking whether your significant other, or significant other1 to be, is worthy of your time and affections. Nathan Winograd and Jennifer, his significant other, always doublecheck what they’ve driven passed beside the road because sometimes that “object” looks like it might have been an abandoned animal in need. …

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Trinity and Natalie

Woman recovers the bodies of cats hit by cars and reunites them with their owners

UK – NEWS AND COMMENT: Natalie Bennett is a star because she does something that a lot of people can’t do. She recovers the dead bodies of cats hit by cars and reunites them with their owners. At first, she was a bit squeamish about it but she now focuses on the good aspects of …

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Cat crosses the road

Swerving to avoid a cat on the road might be dangerous driving under the law

Would you swerve your car when driving on the road to avoid hitting a cat? Pretty well everyone would not swerve to avoid a cat because to do so would be potentially dangerous. You have a split second to make a decision and the overriding instinct is self-preservation which means maintaining the same course if …

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Rollinsford police and fire personnel, along with York Ambulance, responded to a fatal accident late Monday, July 12, 2021

Tragedy: person killed while trying to save a cat on the road

ROLLINSFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA-NEWS AND COMMENT: This is indeed a tragedy. We don’t know whether the good Samaritan was a woman or a man but news media reports that they tried to remove a cat from the centre of the roadway on Portland Avenue. It happened at around 10:45 PM. The person was struck by …

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Kitten saved from road by heroic motorcyclist

Young male cats far more likely to be involved in road traffic accidents

Young male cats either entire or neutered are far more likely to be involved in road traffic accidents compared to older cats. Specifically, for every one-year increase in age the odds of a domestic cat being involved in a road accident decreased by 16%. The odds for males being in a road traffic accident were …

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Taxi driver swerves to avod a cat and ends up on top of a parked car

Taxi driver swerves to avoid hitting a cat and ends up parked on top of a Jeep

NEWS AND VIEWS: Cat lovers will be pleased about the outcome of this story. The picture is indirectly a ‘cat picture’ but we see no cat. But we do know that the red Toyota Prius which is resting precariously on top of a Jeep is a taxi and the taxi driver avoided a cat on …

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Mo Tenzing is handsome and he's allowed to roam in Central London

Advice to Giles Coren on how to be a good cat guardian to Mo Tenzing

I probably don’t have the right to provide advice to Giles Coren about how to care for his domestic cat companions but I’m going to anyway. Although, I suspect that he knows the answers already as he is as sharp as a tack. But he provides a very laissez-faire and casual record about the wanderings …

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Muffin

Indecent: cat killed on road was disposed of by council in roadside ditch

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND: A one-eyed tabby cat called Muffin living in the Auckland area of New Zealand (Titirangi) was killed on the road. Her owners, as is quite typical, did not know what had happened to her and they put out a call on a community Facebook page to try and find out. Facebook came …

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