MikeB
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 …
Pope Francis has said that people trafficking turns the victims into commodities. I agree with this, of course. However, he describes the perpetrators of this crime as becoming like animals. This is surely incorrect. It would not cross the mind of an animal to traffic …
There is an unintended, potential consequence, in the long term, of near 100% spaying and neutering of domestic cats. What might happen is that over generations the only cats being born are those from feral and stray cats because it is these cats who have …
What is unethical behaviour at animal shelters? It’s probably a philosophical question but I’ll try and stick to real situations. And I’m not sure that there are any absolute wrongs and rights in this discussion. How pragmatic must managers at animal shelters be? We live …
This is an interesting concept and it’s coming out of Singapore where there is a growing interest in pet ownership and where the pet population is projected to grow to 820,000 in 2019. I have never considered giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to a cat before. …
