cats

Concord to consider hiring a cat officer

adamg — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:00:09 +0000

The 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

adamg — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:08:45 +0000

Susan B. asks:

My New Year's resolution: finally adopt kittens. Any suggestions on shelters?

Brookline cat attacked by possibly rabid raccoon

adamg — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:03:04 +0000

The 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

adamg — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:26:13 +0000

9/28/11 - 12:36 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

adamg — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:53:21 +0000

The 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

adamg — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:54:00 +0000

Channel 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

adamg — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:59:19 +0000

The 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

adamg — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 19:34:46 +0000

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

adamg — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:34:55 +0000

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

adamg — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:33:11 +0000

Here'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:

Kayaker rescues nearly drowned cat from locked pet carrier in Charles River

adamg — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:16:25 +0000

Channel 4 reports.

Coyotes not only things gunning for cats

adamg — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:43:47 +0000

This just in from one of our Dorchester correspondents: If you live along Neponset Avenue near St. Ann's and own a young, slender black cat, but it seems to be missing, you might want to check with the Emmerson Animal Hospital - our correspondent reports the cat, which had a collar but no tag, was hit by a car and that her boyfriend, who spotted the injured kitty, picked it up and brought it to the vet.

Police warn West Roxbury residents to keep their cats and small dogs inside

adamg — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:20:27 +0000

Pet Cabaret posts an alert District E-5 sent out this week about the cat-munching coyote.

Pets who keep pets: Societal decline?

Jay Levitt — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:54:12 +0000

I found this today. Looks like I'll have to have The Responsibility Talk today with my kittens... worse, I don't think they've fed the poor fish even once.

Rabid cat captured in West Roxbury

adamg — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:42:47 +0000

Boston Police report a domestic house cat captured on Park Street last weekend was euthanized after it was reported to have rabies.

Click on the link for way more info than you probably want to know about what to do if you think you've been bitten by a rabid animal (go figure: there are an average of 100 rabid cats reported in Massachusetts each year - people, get your pet immunized, will ya?).