What affects us affects cats
Black Cat Bans and Roaming Rights: Europe’s Cat Controversies Across Europe, the humble cat has found itself at the centre of two strikingly different debates — one steeped in superstition, the other in science. In Spain, black cats have been temporarily barred from adoption around Halloween, as shelters fear they could fall victim to …
Note that this is a public pet cemetery. Private ones are fairly common. Until recently Spain’s reputation for animal rights was poor. They like their hunting in Spain too. Times change. The Iberian lynx has bounced back due to great conservation. Spain just opened its first public pet cemetery! It officially opened on June …
Bullfighting afficionados “understand even less that these forms of animal torture [bullfighting] are rewarded with medals that come with monetary prizes using public money.” The words of Spain’s culture minister (2024), Ernest Urtasun who has said that Spain’s bullfighting tradition is on its knees with only 1.9 percent of the population attending a bullfight …
I am referring here to a study called: “Free-roaming domestic cats in Natura 2000 sites of central Spain: Home range, distance travelled and management implications”. The study is about how domestic cats are allowed to enter an extensive network of wildlife conservation reserves and sites in Spain called the Natura 2000 sites. There are …
When the animal welfare laws of any country state that companion animals are sentient beings, it is a great leap forward in animal rights which is clearly apparent in a recent divorce case from Spain where the reform of the Animal Welfare Act in 2021 ensured that animals are regarded as sentient beings and …
Spain has introduced what I would consider to be tough new animal welfare laws under the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Welfare of Animals. The law is controversial and I can understand why. It is tougher than animal welfare laws in the UK which is known to have some of the …
This is a stark example of karma befalling a frankly idiotic young man who is playing the macho character in messing around with a bull as it runs down a street in, presumably, Spain where they like to have bull run celebrations. In the celebrations, as you might know, young men dare to take …
Due to a committed conservation project including a successful captive breeding programme, this is no longer the world’s most endangered wild cat species.
