Is there anything wrong with the idea that all animal shelters of any kind should be registered with the authorities? I note that the state ...

A blaze at the Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando facility killed 23 cats but all the dogs were saved by firefighters. The rescued animals have...

This black-and-white female cat was living under a motorcycle cover in America somewhere (I believe). The person who owns the motorcycle saw...

NEWS AND COMMENT: Russian MP Vitaly Milonov is vehemently anti-LBGT. He hates gay people and said that they should be confined to shelters a...

This is a picture, on Twitter, of a young woman who decided to adopt a 20-year-old cat so that he would not die alone. Her actions and the p...

This comes on the heels of a prior commitment of $10,000,000. Unfortunately, its allocation is a missed opportunity to maximize lifesaving a...

NEWS AND COMMENT - NEW YORK CITY: New Yorkers are pleased that they can, at last, visit an animal shelter in person, look at the animals, re...

NEWS AND COMMENT: It appears that a building contractor was doing up a property in Philadelphia and he heard the meows of cats. He discovere...

The survivors of domestic abuse in the UK are complaining that there is more money being put into cat and dog shelters than into refuges for...

Over the years of writing about cats, bad ear-tipping returns like a bad penny. It seems to pop up from time to time. It can only be due to ...

Do cat siblings get along? It is an important question. On the face of it, if a person adopts two siblings from the same litter when they fi...

Here's a video of two cats who I would say are closely related. They have similar coloration and they are clearly very close emotionally...

At a shelter in or near San Diego, USA, a tiny black kitten named Ember was euthanized (in truth killed) because she was considered to be ei...

The Clarksburg Cat Shelter rely on volunteers to run the shelter and their store. They rely on donations from the public to care for the ...

Ringworm in cats is a bit of a nightmare to be honest. I know a bit about it myself because I got it from my cat. He keeps giving it to me...

The role of cat shelters is to provide care, food and housing for unwanted and abandoned cats and where possible to re-home them.  Rehoming ...

There is a need for domestic violence shelters, usually for women, that allow the woman to bring with her, her cat or dog companion. It woul...

This is an imaginative new program by the Great Plains SPCA to place shelter cats into businesses such as The Raven Bookstore in Lawrence KS...

Are cat adoption applications too strict? Have any of the readers here even looked at a cat adoption application lately? Gone are the days w...

By Elisa Black-Taylor (USA) It is the American Humane Association ADOPT-A-CAT MONTH® so I thought I'd write about something about wh...