NEWS AND COMMENT, SHANGHAI, CHINA: You may have read about the super-strict lockdown in Shanghai because they have an increasing rate of infection of the Omicron variant of the Covid virus. It is leading to some desperate situations because the lockdown is strict. And in …
NEWS AND COMMENT – HONG KONG: I sense that there is a certain amount of jitteriness in Hong Kong about the transmission of Covid from animals to people. It has resulted in the demand by the Hong Kong government to kill 2,000 pet hamsters. The …
The Covid pandemic is a wake-up call for humankind. It is nature telling us that we need to respect the planet more. Humankind needs to respect nature because if we abuse it, it bites us in our bum 😕 . It reacts. It is a …
COMMENT ON THE NEWS: This report comes from Wales and Hope Rescue in Rhondda Cynon Taf. I don’t know if their reporting is applicable to other areas of the UK but it is concerning nonetheless. We know that during the pandemic lockdowns there were about …
NEWS AND COMMENT: This is a confusing and fluid topic. It is not a good state of affairs. Personally, it is astonishing to me, and I’m sure it is equally astonishing to many other people, that some Americans are self-administering with a horse dewormer called …
Novice pet owners who adopted a dog or perhaps a cat during the extended lockdown in the UK because of the Covid pandemic are regretting it because the reality of looking after a companion animal does not match up to their dream. And if 46% …
In the UK, after much debate, the citizens are returning to normal more or less after 18 months of Covid social distancing. All the rules about social distancing are coming to an end. Although people have been breaking the rules extensively, in my opinion, in …