Pet-selling businesses as graded by the AVA

Apparently, the AVA grades pet-selling businesses. This is the current roll of honour (pdf format). As I always say: Adopt, Don’t Buy. But if you must buy, be sure you’re not buying from unethical breeders and pet businesses. Not that this listing is the definitive ethical petshop bible, but perhaps it can help in narrowing down the [...]

Rheilly phot update

btmao has been bugging me to put up her favourite Rheilly photos recently taken, pleading ignorance of flickr and wordpress for not doing so herself (sluggard).
So here they are:

Truncated. Her ample tummy is so generous it makes her look like she’s missing half her length when she poses just so.

Baby tumtum. Ever since her sterilisation [...]

NYT: Dogs Like Us

This is a 2006 article on the New York Times, a bit old chronologically but content-wise still as fresh. It’s a perfect companion to Japan: The horrors behind your made-to-order best friend, in giving the blunt-honest perspective on the pet-dog arena from a dog-lover in America about the dog-loving population, breeds, and the pooches themselves. I guess in [...]

Zoey’s story

Sometimes, a seemingly impossible choice presents itself. Sometimes a decision is then made that seem to fly in the face of reason. Sometimes these illogic decisions change lives.
This is the first entry about Zoey’s story, whose handicap reminds us a lot of Remy.

28-JUL-2007

A rough start
We found this kitten sitting in the middle of the road [...]

New Paper 20080727: Cats are not a traffic hazard

Follow-up to NewPaper 20080721: CARS ALONG JALAN PEMIMPIN SWERVE DANGEROUSLY TO DODGE CATS
Once again, I will just quote the source where I got this link before presenting the article itself (emphasis mine):
Monday, July 28, 2008
Cats not the danger, inattentive drivers are
Thanks to chinky who sent this piece in, in response to the article about cats [...]

NewPaper 20080721: CARS ALONG JALAN PEMIMPIN SWERVE DANGEROUSLY TO DODGE CATS

(EDIT: Scroll to end for link to follow-up)
This feature is from another paper and precedes Canine Control. The Stray Dilemma For Animal Groups. However, it provides yet more insight into the gaps between perception and actual root causes.
Before going on to the article proper, I’m pasting here my source for it, and the writer, Dawn’s thoughts about [...]

Today 20080728: Relaxing pet ownership rules might be an answer

Another letter in response to the article: Canine Control. The Stray Dilemma For Animal Groups.
I can guess, and people familiar with situation would say the same, that AVA would trot out their deader-than-dead template reply and hope the public flogs it and forget about them again. So though I have promised to refrain from going [...]

Today 20080728: We donate to humans but not to animals

Another letter in response to the article: Canine Control. The Stray Dilemma For Animal Groups
This story was printed from TODAYonline
We donate to humans but not to animals
Monday • July 28, 2008
Letter from Calvin Teo
I REFER to “The stray dilemma for animal groups” (July 25).
The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) does have a Responsible Pet [...]

Today 20080726: AVA should not cull strays as it pleases

Letter in response to the article: Canine Control. The Stray Dilemma For Animal Groups
This is a screenshot of the letter taken off the pdf edition as the text edition did not have it.
Click here to view the full pdf version if details are unclear.

Today 20080725: Canine Control. The Stray Dilemma For Animal Groups

Very good article in last Friday’s edition of Today. I am pleasantly surprised to see that this is a comment by a newswoman, vs the freelance comments that usually define such articles here. (I shall refrain from going link-happy here since I’ve already linked all our related posts and external references to death in similar [...]

Four Chihuahuas – Eight Wheels – One Big Happy Family

Unlike our previous post about bears, this one’s a bit more lighthearted: puppy mill victims whose stories end happily. However, do please remember the morale of these cuties’ tale: Don’t support puppy mills or unethical breeders!
These little dogs, and countless others like them, didn’t ask to be born this way, whether in the US, Japan, [...]

Bear bile farms beyond China: Korea and Vietnam

Though China is where their work started, Animalsasia.org runs bear bile farm victim rescue efforts in Vietnam too.
But these are not the only 2 countries that engage in the cruel and inhumane practice of bear bile farming. Nor are their citizens the only consumers of bear bile and other bear products. The biggest [...]

China bans dog from Olympic menu

Dogs are getting a very temporary reprieve from slaughter in Beijing due to the Olympics. A farcical and pretentious gesture, especially since cats and dogs are being culled in the name of the Games. Is offence at the cruelty of dog (AND cat meat eating) limited to non-Chinese during the Olympic season?
From animalsasia.org

As you may [...]

Twinkle, 13 Jul 08

Twinkle is a very sweet young adult. He’s such a nice, gentle and loving kitty, eager to share his tumtum with all and sundry (much like a certain slacker he resembles).

Tumrubs are the best!

Kissy tumrubs are the bestest!

Tumrub break

He’s come a very long way from being the sickly scrawny kitten rescued from a life in [...]

Cattery2: Ticked Tabbies, 13 Jul 08

More kitties of the cattery on Sun, 13 Jul. This time, all agouti tabbies and roomies.

Boston

Boston foreground, Gin Gin background (calsifer: I just know there’s a LOL caption waiting to burst out)

Freddy left, Boston (again) right

Apple Pie left, (and yes) Boston right
Beside a knack for photo-moments, Boston seems to be Mr Congeniality, [...]