What affects us affects cats
It is very ironic that the first person in Spain to be jailed for animal cruelty is someone who was paid to do the exact opposite: care for animals and find them loving homes. As an animal shelter employee she is the exact opposite to the type of person required. To be the first …
This is a book review of “Saudades Mr No Ears”. I am not a book reviewer and I have struggled to write it. But here goes… The book title is interesting and initially slightly perplexing. The word ‘saudades’ is Portuguese meaning “miss you” but it means more than that. It means a deep longing …
This is the extraordinary case of a Spanish animal shelter in the holiday resort of Torremolinos, Costa del sol in Spain. The shelter is the Parque Animal Shelter. Its head was a woman: Carmen Marín Aguilar. Her accomplice in crime was Felipe Barco Gómez; the caretaker at the shelter. In summary, what she did …
Mr No Ears is dead. This is what the people who abducted him tell us in a private message on Facebook. For those unfamiliar with Mr No Ears, in summary he is (or was) an all-white semi-feral cat living on the Algarve, Portugal where he was part of a cat colony tended to by …
A US Navy base in Spain has been accused of capturing stray cats in cages and has drawn suspicion for failing to explain the missing felines. With the long history of ship’s cats, and the connotations that that brings to the relationship between cats and seafarers, it is disturbing to read about the US …
The words in the title were written by Graham Keeley a Times journalist and judging by the story he has written, he is correct. However, Spain’s unwanted cat problem is similar to other countries; so I am not picking on Spain, simply reporting a cat story which should conern and ultimately delight (perhaps) cat …
by Lynda Hudd (Benalmadena Peublo, Spain) Well look at me We rented an apartment in Benalmadena Pueblo, Spain. There are loads of feral cats around and we seem to have adopted 3 of these feral cats. They came every day for food and eventually one started to come inside…and gradually let us pet him, …
