This video should touch you if you have feelings to be touched (you do otherwise you wouldn't be here 💓). It speaks of the divergent attitudes of people towards animals. On the one hand we have the man who found Kona and her companion and wanted them to be euthanised and took them to a vet for that purpose. The vet refused and took them to a rescue center from where Kona was adopted by this great woman, Nina, who adores her and her love is reciprocated in spades. It is just the way the world should work but often doesn't. Sorry that this is about dogs and not kittens but I couldn't resist. It is too sweet. There's not much difference in any case. It is about humankind's relationship with animals and how we care for the most vulnerable sentient beings in society, including other humans. I am sure that the deafness comes from the presence of the dominant white gene in Kona. And the partial blindness will have a similar cause. It is a congenital condition. She almost ...

NEWS AND COMMENT: A British charity called Paws Rescue Qatar (PQR) has done some sterling work since 2014 when it was founded by Alison Caldwell and Vicky Lamont. Essentially they rescue abandoned cats and dogs from the streets of Qatar. This is an incredibly hot country with temperatures sometimes reaching 50°C. These abandoned animals can barely survive under these killer temperatures. Further, the locals, the Qataris, often treat street animals as pests which translates to being cruel to them. The founders of PQR say that locals sometimes run over them deliberately to kill them or they poison them and beat them et cetera. Paws Rescue Qatar. Photo: PQR. Here are some points to make about this excellent British charity which has saved the lives of hundreds of animals. Either the owner of the land on which their current facility is located, or the owner of the facility itself or the local authority have told them that they have to move very soon. The news is devastating to them. Se...

Austin Animal Center has been in the animal rescue news as per a report by Nathan J Winograd who has his own organisation called the No Kill Advocacy Center . He has a Facebook page and on that page is a post which explains the situation. In summary, the shelter decided to, in effect, gag the employees to stop them criticising the shelter in public (see FB post below). Winograd argued that that was a breach of their constitutional rights and also it would increase the prospect of animals being killed at the shelter. He won the argument which doesn't surprise me because he's a brilliant lawyer and an incredibly precise individual.  He firmly believes that every animal shelter in America should be and can be no-kill which means that 90% at least of the animals at the shelter should be adopted out and not euthanised because a home cannot be found for them. He has advocated for this over many years and in essence changed the face of animal shelters in America of which there are ab...

The Myth of Pet Overpopulation - a video by Nathan Winograd, the world leader on how to reduce animal shelter killings.  Nathan is a brilliant man. He loves detail and precision. He is energetic and motivated. He is committed. Try and stay with the video for its entire length because what he says is good stuff.