MikeB
There’s been a two-pronged attack on climate change recently. Firstly there is a 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl, Greta Thunberg, whose climate change activism began when she was a solitary figure pursuing a vigil outside Sweden’s parliament in Stockholm. Then last month about 1.4 million students joined …
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) tell us that the average claim went up by 4.75 percent over the past year. The RSPCA says that a factor is the popularity of more vulnerable breeds such as French bulldogs and pugs which are relatively high maintenance …
Two major French companies breeding game chicks under conditions that would be illegal in Britain are secretly using Eurotunnel to export their product to the UK where they are raised to be shot at on shooting estates. The whole process is objectionable. Ferry companies have …
Dogs chained in front of houses without any shelter and without proper nutrition and water should be a thing of the past in Texas, USA. This is because a bill banning chain leashes for dogs has passed one body of the Texas legislature, the Senate. …
The killer whales of the Salish Sea, which lies between mainland Washington state and Vancouver Island, are sometimes skinny. They are undernourished, underfed and starving. They have “peanut heads” and they suffer an increased chance of dying. And they are disappearing. The whale spotters in …
I can’t tell you how often I have spoken to a neighbour about foxes when they’ve told me that they are pests and I shouldn’t feed them. They just don’t like them. I love them. This polarisation of opinion between two people, myself and my …
This is a bit of feline magic and it wandered through a front door left ajar. The picture and story has gone viral big time (seen 16 million times we are told). This looks like instinctive therapy cat behavior. Andrew Falloon (a Member of Parliament …
The Chinese have inserted human genes into the brains of monkeys in an attempt to create ‘transgenic monkeys’ with brains which mirror in certain ways human brains. Is this a slippery slope to more extreme experiments? Is this ethical? The brains of 11 rhesus monkeys …
A brown mongrel was seen by oil rig workers in the Gulf of Thailand 140 miles from land. The dog named Boonrod (‘survivor’) swam towards the oil rig and managed to cling to a pole. He was silent and exhausted. People speculating as to how …
