What affects us affects cats
Venezuela is sitting on the world’s largest oil reserves and for that reason successive governments have depended upon revenue from the sale of oil to run laudable but mismanaged socialist programs across Venezuela for years. Now the price of oil has fallen dramatically and because the government depended upon oil so heavily without diversifying, …
You may have heard about the lynx who escaped from Dartmoor Zoo by chewing through his enclosure fencing (that must have hurt him). This had never happened before at this zoo. The cat is two-years-of-age. He had barely arrived at Dartmoor zoo when he escaped. His mother remained at his former home at Port …
It is staggering that China does not have any law which protects the welfare of animals, either wild or domestic. China is the world’s most populous country. It is the world’s second-largest state by land area. China is the cradle of civilisation. It’s history begins with an ancient civilisation, one of the world’s earliest. …
Having been prosecuted for failing to protect their employees, a private zoo in the UK will have to fork out £400,000 ($574,000) which includes a fine relating to an earlier matter. The £400,000 and includes a fine of £255,000 for health and safety breaches which led to the death of one of its zoo …
The mother of a 3-year-old boy who got into the Cincinnati Zoo’s gorilla exhibit will not face charges, an Ohio prosecutor said on Monday. But the zoo is going to build a more secure fence to keep the public out of the enclosure. Well, I hate to say but I will: I was right. …
The recent high-profile killing of the silverback gorilla in Cincinnati zoo illustrates the madness of humans. We are locking up animals then punishing them for acting naturally. This killing was a clear example of how we rate a human more precious than any other animal. It follows in the footsteps of the killing of …
The Latest on the killing of a gorilla after a child fell into its enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo (all times local): Source: The Latest: Police to probe circumstances of gorilla’s death but no charges are planned – The Washington Post Not only are the police investigating what happened, the Cincinnati-based Stop Animal Exploitation …
The gorilla’s initial reaction the boy falling into the moat was gentle; you could say very gentle considering his immense size and strength. Harambe appears to hold the boy’s hand or arm and lift him up. Understandably, the boy screams probably not because of pain but because the fearful sight before him. It could …
