A Michael Broad Blog
This is an incredibly impressive, committed and wonderful cat rescue organised mainly, on my understanding, by Homewood Trails Animal Rescue (11116 Fairfax Station Rd, Fairfax Station, VA, United States, Virginia). They have a Facebook page and a couple of their Facebook posts are republished below. There is also a video from WUSA9 YouTube. Note: …
It’s on the horizon. It is a news item which has yet to be written. It concerns cat welfare, dog welfare and our welfare. It concerns everything. It is the setback to the fight against climate change brought about by, firstly, Covid and now the Ukraine invasion. For me, these two disasters have setback …
NEWS AND COMMENT: I don’t have much detail but today, on the radio, and on television, it has been announced that Conservative MPs David Amess, 69, was stabbed multiple times at noon today resulting in his death at a temporary ‘surgery’ in Belfairs Methodist Church, Leigh-on-Sea. He was attended to at the scene by …
At the time of dictating this, Facebook has been down for about two hours. They have 5,000 engineers (more?) and they can’t deliver the bloody website! I am sure that almost everyone has never experienced this before. Billions of people are reliant on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. They are all run by the same …
Yes, Mr Farthing and 94 dogs and 79 cats have left Afghanistan in an evacuation flight on a privately chartered aircraft sponsored by the Ministry of Defence at around 4:30 PM this Saturday, August 28, 2021. He had to leave his Nowzad staff behind even though there were granted visas. The Taliban prevented his …
NEWS AND COMMENT – KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: The background to this story is useful to know. Nowzad is an animal charity run by Mr Pen Farthing in Kabul. They rescue cats and dogs and other animals. They reunite cats and dogs that have been adopted by military personnel while serving in Afghanistan after they return …
NEWS AND COMMENT – TAIWAN: I wrote about this earlier. It concerns a smuggling operation when purebred cats of great value are smuggled from mainland China to Taiwan using the sea route. The smugglers have been intercepted and the cats confiscated. It is now reported in The Guardian newspaper that, in total, the cats …
Nowzad is a famous animal rescue based in Kabul; founded and managed by a former Royal Marine, Pen Farthing. He had completed two tours of Afghanistan and Iraq and decided to set up his charity to reunite soldiers with the animals they had bonded with after they return home. He has condemned the withdrawal …
