Cleaning business encourages customers to foster a cat to scare rodents away

This is a unique, innovative idea to promote the fostering of rescue cats in the UK but it is also dubious and I regret to say I don’t think it will work and I don’t think it is based upon sound thinking. Handy.com is an online business which makes arrangements for cleaning and handyman …

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Plague: the urgent need to have cats roaming our streets

By Gina Shahbandar Intro by Michael. Gina makes the point that community cats (managed outdoor cats living in harmony with people) can provide an essential but underappreciated service to humankind in keeping down rat populations and therefore diseases such as the plague. For example the bubonic plague is spread through flea bites and rats. The …

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“I think animals make people better,” Frank Fantini (record store employee)

“I think animals make people better,” Fantini said. “It changes the store. They make it more of a calming place.” I have written about placing shelter cats in workplaces before and I have also presented pictures of cats in workplaces generally or, for want of a better phrase, putting cats to work. I have …

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Trim: A Brave, Seafaring Cat

I have just read about Trim, a ship’s cat. A book was written about him by his human companion, Matthew Flinders, who was a navigator, catographer, scientist and the commander of ships including the Investigator, a worn-out ship in which he circumnavigated Australia to map it. Flinders is one of the great figures of …

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