What affects us affects cats
By Michael and Sarah You have never seen a domestic cat like this one. There are possibly only two like him in the UK, where, we are told, he lives on a veterinary farm. He greets people who visit the place. You can see he has jumped into the car belonging to Danny Redmond. …
Introduction: this is an article by a respected enthusiast and cat expert, Sarah Hartwell, the owner and author of Messybeast.com, in which she reviews the link between feline toxoplasmosis and human schizophrenia with particular reference to a recently well-quoted study, which has been so assiduously discussed in the online news media (including on TIME) …
By Sarah Hartwell When cats are bred for appearance, disease-causing genes risk being overlooked until the gene becomes sufficiently widespread that numerous cases of the genetic ailment appear in that breed. There are a number of factors involved: THE FOUNDER EFFECT: if one or more of the foundation cats has a genetic problem, this …
Yesterday I went to visit Sarah Hartwell at her semi-detached home in Chelmsford, which is about a 45-minute train journey from Central London. She has lived there for about 25 years. Her deceased cats are buried in the garden. For many years Sarah worked at the Chelmsford branch of Cats Protection. Sarah currently cares …
Today, 21st November 2013, I visited the first lady of the cat internet world and self confessed science-oriented geek, Sarah Hartwell. Her cat site: Messybeast.com was one of the very first general cat websites on the internet and was online at about the time the public internet was starting or, at least, beginning to …
