What affects us affects cats
Recently I wrote about the abduction of a British shorthair cat in London which led to a ransom payment of £1000 by the owner. The question at the time was whether the criminal involved was acting in a casual, ad hoc manner on the bases of good fortune in that he had bumped into …
Sir Stuffington is a one eyed snowshoe-like rescue cat with a broken and fixed jaw and a passing resemblance to Grumpy Cat, who was transformed into an online cat celebrity by dressing him up as a pirate. He gathered 55k Facebook likes. This video summarises the story. The cover picture is not the cat …
Over the years, I have assisted with numerous lost animal cases. The most challenging cases are always those that involve a cat that has been stolen from their family. Usually the theft occurs when the client was not at home or had simply stepped away from the car for a moment. It usually happens …
This is a bizarre US story. It concerns the City of Burlington’s animal shelter. A woman burgled 16 cats from the shelter. Burglary is breaking into a place and stealing something. She has been caught and charged with a felony – breaking and entering. A felony is a serious crime. The value of the …
Stealing cats is more than a simple case of theft, a criminal act; it is also at least a form of cat cruelty and worse sometimes. Although the latter aspect of the crime has no bearing on the sentence of a convicted cat stealer if he or she is ever brought to justice, which …
