That’s not my name….
Following on from the recent blog about people challenging the laws in the UK regarding cats injured on the road – https://www.ailurophile.co.uk/?p=543 – there’s another topic being raised quite regularly by concerned cat carers. Since 2016 in the U.K it’s…
Belated Happy St Gertrudes Day….
March 17th is well known for being St Patricks Day. Less well known, is that it’s also the day where people celebrate the memorial of St Gertrude. St Gertrude holds patronage over a lot of things, including gardeners, travellers, widows…
Where the wild things are….
Dogs and cats have been popular companion animals to humans for thousands of years. As society and how it lives changed, so did some of the potential risks to the animals that share our environment as domesticated species. Although popularity…
A gentle reminder….
That April is viewed as the beginning of kitten season. Anyone that works in rescue will tell you, although there is a time that more kittens are conceived there’s no specific time of the year rescues receive calls about pregnant…
Answering the call of nature – why even cats with access to the great outdoors need a litter tray
The outside world is constantly changing for a cat that has indoor/outdoor access. In some ways this is good, because the changes mean varied mental stimulation. But in other ways it can negatively impact on them psychologically. A lot of…
The pros and cons of cat rehoming on social media
The internet is a part of most people’s daily lives now. And very few people don’t have some sort of social media account. Cat rescues are recognising this fact and moving with the times. A lot of rescues use social…
What to do if you find an ill or injured cat…..
A couple of days ago, scrolling through posts on a social media feed, I saw something that both unsettled and saddened me. A cat had been found in someone’s shed, and they had posted to try and locate the cats…
Joyeux Noel….
Every year, my social media stream gets bombarded with a plethora of posts about cats inadvertently sabotaging Christmas in a pretty humorous fashion. So without further ado, here are a couple of links. One link is a compilation entitled: Cats…
A Christmas tail….
I got curious if there were any festive stories about cats. This isn’t quite what I was looking for, but here’s the story of Jólakötturin, the Yule Cat. Jólakötturin – The Yule Cat The Yule Cat (Jólakötturin) is a huge, vicious creature…
I have only slipped away into the next room….a memoriam
Since I started this blog, there have been changes in the group. There’s been losses, and there’s been new arrivals. Yesterday was a sad day, because there was an unexpected loss. 2018 has been an extremely difficult one in terms…
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