Civilians are being evacuated from Aleppo as the rebels have been routed by Assad’s forces with the aid of Russia. What now? Buses are ferrying civilians out of this destroyed city. It’s all over the news. But what about the cats and dogs? What about that great guy who runs a cat shelter in …
You remember that heroic guy, a former ambulance driver and electrician, who rescues cats in Aleppo, Syria? Well I wondered how the hell he could keep going in what has been described as hell on earth. He kept on going. He saved cats. He cared for them under the most testing of conditions. True …
This is a slide show of 9 pictures, five seconds per picture. If you’d like to pause it simply place your cursor over it. Note: Update: this page was written two years ago. I have re-dated it to bring the article forward to October 9th 2016 because this cat rescue work is still acutely …
Almost all the cats of the small species of wild cat that is called the “wildcat” are hybrids. At some stage in their lineage an ancestor mated with a domestic cat. It may have been thousands of years ago but nearly all of them are not “purebred”. This is because the domestic cat – …
Cats can be the innocent victims of human folly as is shown in this video about the Syrian war. This is a great video. A calico cat, probably a community cat, is featured in the video at 7:24 minutes and 12:50 minutes into the video. You can drag the timeline bar to those times and …
Marc found this webpage showing these pictures. I took a screenshot. It just tells a story about the ugliness of the human’s behavior set against the innocence of the cat. Quite a contrast. It does seem to sum up the contrast in the behavior of the ‘human animal’ versus the animal. A small vulnerable …
