What affects us affects cats
The Barnett formula, a mechanism established in 1978, was intended as a temporary method to allocate funding from the UK government to Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland after the devolution of certain powers. Its purpose was simple: to adjust the block grants for devolved governments based on changes in spending for comparable services in …
There appears to be a concerted effort to rewild the UK with the wildcat which is probably extinct throughout the UK although some think that the wildcat is still present in very small numbers (400?) but others think those cats are wildcat x domestic/feral cat hybrids and the wildcat is extinct in the UK. …
The headline is somewhat startling. Australians, reading this article, would be horrified because the authorities in Australia are super-sensitive to feral cat predation of native species. And the reason why feral cats are on the island of Australia is because of human carelessness in the first-place hundreds of years ago. And here, today, we …
In an effort to stave off the possibility of extinction of the Scottish wildcat in the wild, a collaboration between the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, NatureScot, Forestry and Land Scotland and the Cairngorms National Park Authority under the umbrella of project “Saving Wildcats”, twenty-two wildcats were bred in captivity and the first group …
In a video in which Scotland’s first Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, updates the nation on coronavirus regulations, she states that the coronavirus pandemic is no one’s fault. I am going to allege that she was asked to say that by the Chinese ambassador to Britain, Liu Xiaoming, in a meeting at the Scottish Chambers of …
OPINION ON NEWS FROM THE SCOTSMAN: We know that one downside of the necessary expansion of wind farms is that they kill birds. We are also painfully aware that domestic and feral cats kill birds. Now we have a wind farm in Scotland that, it is claimed, will kill birds and a very rare, …
SCOTLAND: This is a story with a twist about a microchipped, female cat who was missing for a year and who was found in a disused cinema. She was rescued by the RSPCA who had to obtain the cinema owner’s assistance to access the inside of the boarded up building. The cat (whose name …
Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home (EDCH) were forced to call in police after being branded a “kill centre” and savaged online after they euthanised a fit and healthy boxer dog called Kody. Although the dog had injured three staff. The dog displayed aggressive and unpredictable behaviour according to the shelter. One staff member needed …
