The Association of Dogs and Cats Homes’s statistics tell us that cats are twice as likely to be abandoned than dogs during the coronavirus lockdown in the UK. The lockdown is continuing in a sporadic way across Britain. So this … Continue reading →
ANALYSIS: I wonder whether this car crash in Germany has exposed another example of live wildlife trading in breach of agreements between countries under international treaties. The trade in wildlife both dead and alive is an enormous business across the … Continue reading →
Although personally I am an unbeliever, there are those who firmly believe that there are big cats secretively lurking around the British countryside, invisible almost all the time and one such person is Andrew Hemmings of the Royal Agricultural University … Continue reading →
Although, in the UK, the chemical metaldehyde has been banned from slug pellets from the Spring of 2020, because it is just too toxic to animals, there will be old stocks of pellets in garden sheds which contain the chemical … Continue reading →
The infographic is by Ruth aka Kattaddorra. She is a cat lover who lives in the North of England. She created the infographic many years ago. Every day I pick up my cat several times. He asks me to do … Continue reading →
About 6 years ago I wrote about the Bangladeshi and Indian people working in the sprawling 10,000 square kilometre Delta of mangrove swamps called the Sundarbans and how they protected themselves from tiger attacks by wearing masks. The masks are … Continue reading →
No doubt you will find that different people produce a different answer to this question. My research indicates that the idiom “raining cats and dogs” probably comes from a poem by Jonathan Swift entitled A Description of a City Shower. … Continue reading →
Currently, under the Road Traffic Act 1988, a driver must give their details if they run over and injure a goat, pig, sheep, mule, ass, cattle, horse or dog but this does not apply to cats, surprisingly. It is clearly … Continue reading →
After the Hampstead Garden Suburb story of an escaped F1 Savannah or serval from the home of one of Britains mega-rich the Savannah cat is in the news. It has come to the attention of the media that the super-rich … Continue reading →
NEWS/VIEWS – SAPPORO CITY, NORTHERN JAPAN: The story is typical in one way: a cat hoarding couple in their fifties failed to ensure that their cats were spayed and neutered which inevitably resulted in a totally unmanageable number of cats … Continue reading →
Larry the Cat as you might well know lives at the residence and office of the Prime Minister of the UK. He is the resident mouser and he’s quite famous. You may also know that the president has recently visited … Continue reading →
In the UK in hot weather cat guardians need to be alert to the dangers of their cat getting sunburned ear flaps. Sun cream is advised.
Continue reading →I get the sense that Taylor Swift relates to her three domestic cat companions as babies. She’s just acquired a new cat. She has called him Benjamin Button and he is totally adorable. He looks like a Ragdoll and they … Continue reading →
It has been widely reported that Natural Instinct’s raw wild venison cat food which costs about £4.50 for two daily portions (i.e. it is very expensive) has been implicated in infecting about 50 cats in 30 homes around Britain with … Continue reading →
Mass sterilization has taken place at an army garrison in Seoul, Korea (YONGSAN GARRISON). It took a lot of effort by the organizers to achieve this because the first problem was that it is illegal to abandon cats at the … Continue reading →
Temple, Texas, USA: a cat companion died on Friday last and a local resident was injured when fire broke out in a mobile home. The fire was reported just after 10:45 AM on Friday. The property was on fire with … Continue reading →
Every time I read about cat ownership in Australia I feel that a gradual squeeze is being placed on cat owners in terms of confinement, registration and other restrictions which make cat ownership problematic or less enjoyable. For example, it’s … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
This is a very quick feline health tip. To regularly check your cat’s teeth and gums run a cotton bud along the gum line (the point where gums meet teeth) . If you see blood on the cotton bud or … Continue reading →
Through Michael Gove it appears that the current Conservative government is sympathetic to the idea of obligatory micro-chipping of cats in the UK. Michael Gove is on record as saying that a Bill being introduced by member of Parliament Rehman … Continue reading →
