YEREVAN, ARMENIA-NEWS AND COMMENT: The council of elders, the lawmaking assembly of the capital of Armenia have decided to take the bold step of making cat and dog registration mandatory across the entire city. The primary goal is to minimize, … Continue reading →
ASSOCIATED PAGE: Cat falls from the upper tier of a football stadium. They could have prevented it. This is one of those “stray cat makes a baseball ground their home” stories. We see them a little more often that we … Continue reading →
DUBLIN, IRELAND-NEWS AND COMMENT: The Irish Sun has reported on a scam concerning cats that I have never heard of before. The scammers offer to remove so called ‘stray cats’ from housing estates and even apparently back gardens. They charge … Continue reading →
AUSTRALIA: A study published in 2020 highlights two major health problems concerning stray cats, namely parasites and the quality of the food that they eat. Stray cats are not feral cats. They are domestic cats that have strayed from their … Continue reading →
NEWS AND VIEWS: I have discovered that the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan was the home for 25-30 cats. I use the past tense because all embassy staff have reportedly abandoned the station. CNN reports that the embassy is empty … Continue reading →
NEWS AND NEWS-CAIRO, EGYPT: This cute and confident calico cat became a social media star in Egypt when she gatecrashed the Cairo Film Festival (19-28 November 2020). She hobnobbed with the rich and famous on the red catwalk (excuse the … Continue reading →
NEWS AND COMMENT: There appears to be an army of cat loving, kind and decent women living in Moscow and the suburbs who are concerned about the welfare of the city’s large stray cat population. During winter the temperature in … Continue reading →
Summary: a lot of people consider the feral cat a nuisance animal in the United States. They see it as a predatory invasive species. The feral cat in America was put there by Americans, there’s no doubt about that. There … Continue reading →
NEWS AND VIEWS (COMMENT): A kind woman was filmed by another woman apparently measuring up a feral cat so that she could make a coat for the animal in preparation for a cold winter. It indicated that there are many … Continue reading →
There is a perception among some people that stray cats are diseased and can transmit infections to people. I’m reminded of this by a woman in Hong Kong, Icy Song, who runs into stray cats on her way to Lingnan … Continue reading →
