Why don’t the Australian authorities use immuno-contraception (IC) by vaccination to control the population feral cats in Australia which prey on native species and which annoy the Australian authorities so much? The vaccination could be given orally. And it seems to me that theoretically it could be given orally using the device that the clever …
Immuno-contraception by oral vaccination of feral cats in Australia Read More »
Should I give my Maine Coon cat a lion cut? In order to answer the question accurately you have to ask and answer some questions. What is it for? Is the lion cut for the benefit of the owner i.e. for their convenience because they like the look of it, or is it for the …
Should I give my Maine Coon or Persian a lion cut? Read More »
I’m referring to domestic cats of course. But the same actually would apply to wild cats. Domestic cats like to do these two things most (1) procreate i.e. mate with a female and (2) hunt to kill prey to eat and survive. Almost everything they do in the homes of their human caregivers relate back …
NEWS AND VIEWS – UKRAINE: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s words accompanying the video below: While the Russian evil is terrorizing and destroying all living things, we are doing and will continue to do everything to save every living creature! Thousands and thousands of animals are trapped in the flood after the destruction of the …
There has been a lot of talk over the past five years about rewilding species such as the wolf and lynx in the UK which became extinct on these islands many years ago because they were over hunted. One of these is the wildcat, the last one of which was shot by a landowner in …
Woodsman says that reintroducing wolves and lynxes to Britain would be a disaster Read More »
NEWS AND VIEWS – SOMEWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES: Chloe Mitchell adopted a female tabby cat from a shelter. We don’t know the name and address of the shelter! She paid the shelter US$900 which is an awful lot for a shelter cat. It goes well beyond the normal shelter adoption fee. Mitchell has a …
Woman who paid $900 to adopt a shelter cat claims that she was scammed Read More »
Twitter understands me! Whenever I go to Twitter, they offer up to me images that incense me. They drive me to blog about them. To rage inside. To cry inside. To feel powerless. To feel impotent. I can’t stop this Vietnamese dog cruelty. Just writing that sentence risks a backlash from a Vietnamese person who’ll …
Cultural sensitivities allow Vietnamese dog meat traders to barbarically kill dogs Read More »
Is speciesism at the root of the human-to-animal problem; the abuse and cruelty? And, from my perspective, there is a problem with our relationship with animals. Not all of it is bad that’s obvious because there are hundreds of millions of great people who are compassionate towards animals and who don’t suffer from the affliction …
Everyone needs to learn about speciesism and ask tough questions Read More »
The Times reports on the struggle to sell the house where Ivana Trump lived in New York city. It has been on sale for five months and it has failed to find a buyer. A visitor said that walking into the house is like stepping back into the 1980s. It is a grand palace inside …
Leopard-print $26m home of Ivana Trump won’t sell. Thoughts on why. Read More »
In combining two stories about reticulated pythons, I have come to the conclusion that this species of snake can behave and sound like a cat! The Guinness World Record’s longest snake in captivity is Medusa, a reticulated python. They say it purrs like a snake when happy! I can’t confirm this interesting snippet of information …
Reticulated python can behave and sound like a domestic cat Read More »
Chinese scientists have been studying the fossilised remains of an injured paw of an early race of sabertooth tigers which lived between 8.7 and 9.8 million years ago. These were early “versions” of the sabertooth tiger which became extinct about 11,000 years ago. The sabertooth tiger at one stage lived side-by-side with humans. They decided …
Sabretooth tiger on the Tibetan plateau lived cooperatively Read More »
We know that the Covid pandemic changed attitudes in the UK towards the workplace. It actually changed a lot of things and has affected the way of life of UK citizens in many ways and will do, I believe, permanently. And so, it is unsurprising that a growing number of employers are allowing people to …
The news today (Mirror newspaper online) is that in the county of Kent, UK, someone is attacking outside domestic cats by shaving off some of their coat. But that is it. It is cruel and a crime but except for the trauma of the attack and the temporary loss of some of their coat through …
Attacks on cats to shave their fur for commercial purposes? Read More »
Once again, we are told that Australia is changing the face of cat domestication in order to protect their native species, often their small native mammals which are particularly vulnerable to domestic cat predation. This is because historically they never had to deal with cat predation and therefore, they have not armed themselves against it. …
Strong trend in Australia to keep domestic cats inside full-time has a big DEFECT Read More »
NEWS AND COMMENT: You may have heard that in the UK there is a cost-of-living crisis due to various reasons one of which is high inflation. And it is having a dramatically negative impact on charities relied upon donations one of which is Rescue Kitties in Manchester. There are many reasons for high inflation one …
People stop donating to cat rescue organisations because of the cost-of-living crisis Read More »
