cats
Concord to consider hiring a cat officer
By adamg - 1/23/12 - 8:00 amThe Globe reports on cat regulations proposed by a resident tired of being "a victim in my own yard to terrorist cats that kill everything in sight."
Shelters with kittens up for adoption
By adamg - 12/30/11 - 6:08 pmSusan B. asks:
My New Year's resolution: finally adopt kittens. Any suggestions on shelters?
Brookline cat attacked by possibly rabid raccoon
By adamg - 10/26/11 - 8:03 amThe Brookline Health Department is warning residents to stay away from wild animals after a raccoon suspected of having rabies attacked a north Brookline resident's pet in daylight hours - a few weeks after a rabid raccoon was picked up in Jamaica Plain.
Two bats captured in Brookline also recently tested positive for rabies.
Man charged with throwing kittens out a window at one of city's most troubled addresses
By adamg - 9/28/11 - 9:26 am
UPDATE: Judge set bail at $750, declined request by Suffolk County DA's office to revoke his bail on the earlier drug charge.
Boston Police report officers responding to a call about a man throwing kittens out a second-floor window at 102 Blue Hill Ave. in Roxbury early this morning found a man witnesses said was throwing kittens out the window.
Police say officers found two kittens and that a city animal inspector said they were OK.
Earlier this year, the man charged with tossing the kittens, Thomas Gonzales, 47, was arrested on drug-distribution charges just hours before Mayor Menino stood in front of 102 Blue Hill Ave. to declare it one of the most troubled properties in the city and the target of a city task force aimed at cleaning up such places. Between May, 2010 and July, 2011, police responded more than 100 times to calls related to the triple decker.
Court upholds man's jail term for killing cat and tossing its flaming corpse through friend's window
By adamg - 8/9/11 - 9:53 pmThe Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld the animal-cruelty law used to send Luigi Epifania of East Boston away for 2 1/2 years.
Epifania had appealed his sentence for his 2007 flaming-cat tossing by arguing the cat didn't belong to anybody in particular and so was not covered by the state law, which only covers animals owned by "another person."
Kitten on a pole in Roxbury
By adamg - 2/7/11 - 3:54 pmChannel 5 has several photos of a kitten at the top of a utility pole on Munroe Street, where it had climbed to escape a dog. The Animal Rescue League sent somebody there today to try to get the cat down.
Dorchester cat tests positive for rabies; at least six people exposed
By adamg - 10/22/10 - 4:59 pmThe Boston Public Health Commission reports a cat in the Mascot Street area tested positive for the potentially fatal disease.
In addition to the six people now receiving shots, the commission urges anybody who came into contact with a roughly 10-year-old orange cat there between Oct. 2 and 17 - or whose own pet tangled with the cat - to call 617-534-5611.
Public health officials say the case shows the importance of updating pet rabies shots - and of avoiding contact with wild animals:
Avoid any animal that is acting strange or sick. Do not keep wild animals as pets, touch, or pick up any dead animal. Do not attract wild animals to your house by feeding pets outside or leaving garbage cans open.
For more information about rabies, contact the Infectious Disease Bureau at 617-534-5611.
Doing cat wheels
By adamg - 10/15/10 - 2:34 pm
The Animal Rescue League of Boston reports a technician was summoned to Lynn this afternoon on a report of a kitten with its head stuck in a tire rim. Workers at a local animal hospital disengaged cat from wheel without any apparent damage to either, the ARL reports.
Peaches, the patchwork kitty
By adamg - 10/9/10 - 9:34 am
Peaches and Dr. Martha Smith
A Dorchester kitten is recuperating at a veterinarian's home from serious wounds caused when she got entangled in the fan belt of her owner's car when the woman started the engine not knowing the young cat had crawled into the engine compartment for warmth.
Dramatic rescue captured on video
By adamg - 9/11/10 - 5:33 pmHere's why you never see a cat skeleton up a tree: The Animal Rescue League gets them down first. Here we see a technician saving Brisket, Jeff and Gretchen's cat, who'd been up a tree in Hingham for 26 hours:
