A Michael Broad Blog
I’ve tried to keep the title very short for search engine optimisation reasons and I hope you understand what I’m trying to get at. In case you haven’t what I mean is this: if two people are longterm friends and they are both cat caregivers and one of them lets their cat(s) outside unsupervised …
Anna Maxted is a well-known Times journalist. She is a cat lover and so are her children. She had until recently two domestic cat companions, one a non-purebred and the other a purebred Bengal. She has written a very long and detailed article expressing her grief on the sudden death of her Bengal cat. …
There’s been a campaign in the UK for some time to make it a legal requirement for drivers to stop and report collisions with cats. It makes sense to millions of ordinary people but it doesn’t make sense to the UK government. There was a petition which garnered 102,436 signatures. That’s why the government …
Well, some drivers do stop when they hit a cat on the road but we don’t know how many do the decent thing. There are no records. No statistics. But it is probably safe to say that the vast majority of drivers don’t stop because there is no legal requirement to stop and it …
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 …
This is what I would describe as another cat burial mixup arising out of a road traffic accident in which a black cat was killed. Nathan Sonoras was incredibly distraught when he saw a black cat on the road. He was convinced that it was his cat, Loki. It was in the evening when …
Every year, in the UK, thousands of cats are thrown away on landfill sites without being scanned for a microchip after being killed in road traffic accidents. As a consequence, their owners search for months and years to try and find out what happened to their cat without success and without closure. It would …
As I understand it, the raison d’être of catsmatter.org is (a) the introduction of a law which makes it obligatory for drivers to report road traffic accidents (RTAs) involving cats to the authorities and (b) to make it mandatory for all councils to scan for a microchip every cat found by the roadside having …
