"Cats"

It was a matrimonial Monday for two cats to celebrate their love, never mind if they didn’t have a clue as to what all the fuss was about – a one-of-a-kind kitty wedding which, as you would expect, was as busy as amused cats on a hot tin roof.

Photos and CCTV footage of a woman with a ski mask and dressed in black throwing five bags – each containing a cat – over the wall and into Wat Phra Chetuphon Wimon Mangkhalaram, or Wat Pho Temple, in Bangkok’s Phra Nakhon district went viral on the internet, sparking heavy criticism from netizens and earning her a fine.

ON a hilly plot of land in Relau, a safe haven for stray dogs and cats is taking shape.

Farmers in Tak’s drought-hit Phop Phra district on Monday used cat dolls in a parade ritual for rain-making, respecting the country’s animal-rights law by not using live felines for the very first time, said village headman Sangad Winnai.

Khon Kaen’s first report this year of a rabid dog prompted the hasty vaccination on Wednesday of pet dogs and cats living within a kilometre of the sighting.

Two Persian cats suffocated to death after a fire broke out in a room at the National Housing Estate in Nonthaburi’s Pak Kret district on Thursday morning.

Police were on Tuesday asked to hunt for the driver of a pick-up truck that was seen dropping off 36 cats at a Hat Yai temple early on Monday before 33 of them were mauled to death by stray dogs.

Government officials on Wednesday have been giving rabies shots to dogs and cats near a house where a dog died of the disease.

Authorities are giving rabies vaccines to cats and dogs within a one kilometre radius of where a stray puppy dog bit a seven-year-old boy and his father in a college compound in Tambon Bua Thong of Buri Ram's Muang district on Monday.

Livestock officials in Satun on Monday vaccinated some 200 stray dogs and cats against rabies at a pier where many tourists gather.

POLICE YESTERDAY said that no legal action had yet been taken against a 30-year-old woman suspected by netizens of torturing and killing at least 27 kittens she had adopted from shelters and people.

Stray dogs and cats must be registered and sterilised, otherwise their population will reach 2 million in 10 years, the Livestock Development Department has warned.