A Michael Broad Blog
In America, and in other developed countries, property management companies i.e. businesses managing apartment complexes acting on behalf of the freeholder, have a tendency to consider feral cats as a nuisance and as animals who spoil the amenity of what are often high value residential estates. They think that the cats spoil the appearance …
For me this picture, screams ‘semi-feral cat colony’ in a warm country. The climate certainly looks amenable to sustaining a feral cat colony. But these cats are clearly not true feral cats. The photographer is a couple of yards away from the nearest cats and they look up at her calmly and without any …
Introduction This is the heroic story of Mindy’s rescue, spaying and neutering, taming, socialization, domestication and re-homing where possible of 75 semi-feral cats at a RV Park at Northern CA on the Southern Oregon Border. The story is in her own words. By Mindy (Southern Oregon) The Task Ahead In Jan 2018 I knew …
What are barn cat good for? They are good for keeping down the rodent population either by a deterrence or by hunting them and being companions to livestock or domesticated animals such as horses. Barn cats need to be cared for however.
I love barn cats. It seems natural to me. They live in that middle ground between domestication, living in the polished home, and a wild cat existence outside. The modern day barn cat is as close as we can get to the original domestic cats of over 9,000 years ago. The picture below shows …
A little story may help to answer the question in the title. My mother owned a ginger cat. At about three years of age he left his home and went to live on the golf course opposite. Despite my mother’s best efforts he never returned until he was about 15 years of age when …
“Mr No Ears” is a famous semi-feral cat who used to live in a well-known colony of cats, the Peneco Beach Colony, in Albufeira, Algarve, Portugal. The colony was under the protection of the Albufeira Municipality. The colony was cared for by a registered street-cat charity called Amigos dos Gatos do Algarve (AGA). They …
This is the happy ending story of a semi-feral cat, a McDonald’s fast food establishment and a group of cat advocates who got help quickly for a critically injured cat. Without everyone coming together, an innocent cat would have died a slow and painful death after he became the victim of a car fan …
