MikeB
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 …
Another cute snooze position. Cats do this sometimes too. It shows how companion animals don’t really understand the human home. You just would not choose this spot if you did. I remember a stray cat snoozing at the top of an underground escalator with thousands …
Oblivious to her pet’s struggle, the woman continues to film the scene – until the animal settles at the bottom of the pool motionless. YouTube This is the age when creating a viral video is more important than saving the life of your companion animal. …
Briton’s discarded or lost about 10 billion receipts in 2018. This is the equivalent of destroying Sherwood forest, the famous forest occupied by Robin Hood, you may remember. It is staggering to think that annually Britain’s throwaway, in the form of paper receipts, the equivalent …
This is certainly about the animal-to-human relationship. It is a comparison between the two. When I read the headline in The Times newspaper, “Face the facts: beards hold more germs than dogs’ fur”, I thought of dogs being kept outside all their lives despite being …
The words in quotes in the title come from the first African-American female in space (in 1992). Her name is Dr Mae Jemison. She has a macro-perspective of the planet on which we live, which as the journalist Lucy Siegle says, gives us an idea …
