What affects us affects cats
In Swansea, Wales there are reports that outside cats are being abducted, their claws removed and then returned to the street. It appears that three cats have suffered this mutilation. Obviously, cat owners in the area are very concerned. The RSPCA have said that they are deeply worried. It appears to them that the …
Bear was a handsome classic tabby cat. His brother was Teddy. They look very alike and were inseparable. They liked to explore the neighbourhood together. Bear died last month and his owners were heartbroken. Teddy carried on exploring. One day he came back with a note attached to his collar and one of his …
An eight-year-old boy collapsed and was taken to a hospital such was the emotional shock to him when he discovered that his eight-month-old kitten companion, Kiki, had been brutally murdered and beheaded by the cat killer known as the “Croydon Cat Killer”. The Croydon Cat Killer has been in the news regularly for months …
At the time David Gill managed the South Lakes Safari Zoo in Cumbria, England. In 2010 a female Sumatran tiger cub, Kadi, was one of the zoo’s star attractions. Her birth in that year was a triumph for David Gill. This is the man, incidentally, who has allegedly totally messed up the management of …
An RSPCA report states that in order for the domestic cat population to be stable (i.e. neither increasing or decreasing) the domestic cat neutering rate needs to be 92%. This means that 92% of domestic cats need to be neutered at any one time. Sadly, as at 2012, neutering rates in the UK of …
The prospects are not good for someone who feels that they are a victim of a neighbour’s cats fouling their garden. There is no specific law which states that cats cannot foul someone else’s garden or land. You have to rely upon the general law. Depending on the severity of the fouling a person …
This is a complicated area. It is hard to arrive at a clear-cut conclusion. The major reason for this is because it is difficult to describe with complete certainty a cat as a “feral cat”. An outside cat may be someone’s domestic cat. He may be a stray cat, betwixt-and-between domestic and feral. This …
This is the proposition: the serial cat killer operating in and around London gets sexual kicks from killing cats using blunt force trauma and then (a) decapitating them (b) removing the paws or (c) removing the tail or (c) cutting the cat in half. The cuts are described as surgical. It seems that the …
