Animal Welfare in general

Cats – lovely cute fluffy things that purr and rub up against you with obvious affection? Or nasty smelly, flea ridden noisy murders who only want you around when they want something? Your views on cats may well fall under both these at some time or other – as the owner of 3 cats I know my opinion does! For as long as I can remember there have always been cats in my home and if I have my way there always will. I heard a story the other day about a woman, who had 2 kittens for 2 weeks, then left them outside an RSPCA shop in a box as she couldn’t cope! I managed (just about) to keep a civil tongue in my head whilst telling her just how ...

This was written shorlty after Christmas, so sorry for the delay in posting. But I still want to make people aware of this. Hence my review being posted. Well I thought I would broach the subject, which has been troubling me deeply since watching my local news report last night. On Granada reports last night there was a four week old puppy rotweiller (I?m a rotweiller owner myself so this kind of triggered me off on my rant, sorry) that had been given as a gift for Christmas. Except one problem the person who was fortunate to get this gift wanted a Yorkshire Terrier and hastily abandoned the pup, the puppy was four weeks old. It came into the rescue ...

I must confess. I am one of the world’s biggest animal lovers. I’ve always been this way; I can’t explain how or why it came about. Genetics don’t seem to have played any part of the game. So maybe this leads to the nature or nurture argument? Nope, I can honestly stand here and disprove that theory too. You see I wasn’t brought up to adore animals. In fact I had (and still have usually) an extremely tough job trying to persuade my parents to let me have a new pet. I don’t know why they’re so against the idea really. I’ve always looked after my pets. And that is fairly rare usually because, lets ...