Domestic cat exhumed from 100 AD in Roman Britain

Domestic cat unearthed at a Roman amphitheatre at Richborough, Kent

NEWS AND COMMENT: I have been slightly adventurous in the title to this article. But I think I am within acceptable tolerances! Archaeologists have been excavating at an English Heritage site in Richborough, Kent, UK. It’s the site of an amphitheatre just north of Sandwich. Historians have known about it for a long time; …

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If my cat attacks someone, am I criminally responsible?

Mercy and one of her wounds

The answer to the question will depend on where you live because each country has their own animal and general criminal laws. However, I would expect that what I say here will apply to all developed countries. In developing countries, the law is likely to be more slipshod. In the UK, the country’s lawmakers …

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Cat still died months after they stopped eating mycotoxin contaminated recalled cat food

Cameron died of pancytopenia after eating Applaws grain free food for 2 weeks only

NEWS AND COMMENT: This is a story on the Daily Mail online website which adds to the previous information disseminated on the Internet and on my websites about the catastrophe that has befallen hundreds of domestic cats in the UK who had the misfortune to eat a cat food which it is believed was …

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UK animal sentience bill frightens the countryside pursuits brigade

Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill

NEWS AND COMMENT: In Britain, there is a vociferous group of people who like to participate in countryside pursuits which includes hunting foxes and shooting birds. They defend their right to kill animals for pleasure at every opportunity (fox hunting is banned in the UK but it still happens). And an opportunity has arisen …

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Lord Goldsmith wants to ban animal testing and is drawing up laws to achieve it

COMMENT ON THE NEWS: In the UK the Home Office is the government department in charge of animal testing rather than the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs because there is a security component as animal rights protesters sometimes congregate around animal testing facilities demanding change. This is why Priti Patel, the Home …

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Callous trophy hunters cause untold amounts of agony in the animals they kill

NEWS AND COMMENT: Animal advocates are lucky to have a man like Eduardo Gonçalves who is fighting against trophy and sport hunting intelligently and I hope devastatingly well. In his book Trophy Hunters Exposed: Inside the Big Game Industry he exposes the brutal callousness of trophy hunters and the untold amounts of agony that …

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