A Michael Broad Blog
‘Tigers for sale’ is a phrase that I do not want to read when it concerns private sales from unscrupulous traders selling to naive customers. This page is not about inter-zoo sales which are bad enough. Humankind should not be trading tigers online. It should be entirely banned across the globe. Sadly, that is …
For people unfamiliar with the word “haram” it means forbidden to Muslims. The question in the title is asking if it is forbidden under the Islamic faith to sell cats. The responses provided by experts in interpreting the Hadiths1 and the Koran (Quran) are not black-and-white answers because of differences in interpretation. If you …
There is an upward trend in what is described as “window shopping” of kittens and puppies online on social media. This development is in line with a throwaway culture of pet ownership and it is worrying for people concerned with animal welfare. Bosses at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home say that kittens and puppies …
Selling animals on Facebook is prohibited. The terms of use were amended years ago I believe. However, it took me barely 15 seconds to find groups selling cats. One is called ‘Cats for Sale’ (over 12k members) and the other is called ‘Kittens for sale. Purebreed [sic] kitten and cats for sale‘. It is …
Instagram is meant to be a website where people share photos with ease. It is an extension of Facebook where you share words (and photos). Coming, as I have, from a different generation to modern man but still being relatively young in mind, I think there is too much of what I would call …
Selling kittens and cats on Gumtree needs to stop. Have you seen the phrase “front lined and Panacur’d” before? Well, I hadn’t until today when I visited Gumtree, a British website which is a bit like Craigslist in the USA. Well, in case you didn’t guess, “front lined and Panacur’d” refers to applying the …
Update May 27, 2022: it has been a long time since I visited this page. It was written about 12-13 years ago; I forget precisely when. This outlet has a Facebook page. It still exists but the last entry is February 14, 2014. Therefore, I must conclude that they have closed. In fact, they …
