A Michael Broad Blog
It is timely to remind ourselves that Russia is a nation of cat lovers. They have their own purebred cats e.g. Russian Blue, and a good cat fancy. They’ve got some amazing cat breeders although I don’t approve of cat breeding! Russia has a higher percentage of households owning at least one cat than …
Amira, a student from Morocco in Ukraine, flees the Russian invasion with her cat Simba on her shoulders
NEWS AND COMMENT: Mercifully, it appears that the EU countries bordering the Ukraine have loosened their pet transportation/immigration requirements to prevent the abandonment of cats and dogs and other animals at the border. But the information is not entirely clear while the new arrangements are put in place. As up to 400,000 refugees are …
It is business as usual for Cat Café Lviv, Ukraine during the invasion.
This tweet is sad, isn’t it? An elderly woman who needs some peace and security in her life as does her cat and the bloody Russians want to gobble up her country. Well, it’s not the Russians generally, they don’t want the war. It’s the evil tactical genius/madman, Putin, who demands it. He thinks …
This is a delightful, tiny Exotic Shorthair kitten bred and photographed by Лариса Иванова who lives in Kharkov, Ukraine. The photo has a nice quality. The kitten looks to be of a nice quality too. This is a tabby coat but it is not a typical tabby. It looks Abyssinian-like (ticked tabby). There are …
Yuri Soroka, a 20-year-old man living in Western Ukraine, thought he would make what he believed to be a “funny cat video” with the intention of publishing it on his Instagram page. He decided to put a two-month-old kitten whose name is Shurik into a glass jar and seal the top! He filmed the …
Vicariously, Ikea has been accused of illegal logging of forests in Ukraine where Eurasion lynx live. This harms the conservation prospects of this precious species of medium-sized wild cat. Ikea is investigating claims that some of it wood suppliers are illegally cutting down trees such as beech trees from old growth forests. Beech is …
