A secondary question would be to ask how Australians count the number of feral cats in Australia. To this question there is no answer. And therefore, the guesstimate that there are about 2.7 million feral cats in Australia is simply … Continue reading →
PERTH, AUSTRALIA – NEWS AND COMMENT: There has been a spike in cases of cruelty to cats and kittens in Perth’s northern suburbs, recently. The RSPCA reports an increase of 30% compared to last year in cat cruelty cases. I’m … Continue reading →
It is said that Australia’s out-of-control mouse plague could last for up to 2 years unless the government takes urgent action in giving farmers free poison which is an anticoagulant. The mice die of internal bleeding. The trouble is that … Continue reading →
Tasmanian devils are being introduced into Australia to prey on feral cats and foxes. The feral cat is persona non grata in Australia. They are enemy number one and the authorities on that vast continent will do almost anything to … Continue reading →
I do believe that feral cats in Australia can, exceptionally, grow to twice the normal size of a feral cat. This picture shows one such example and the beauty of the photograph is that you can make a size comparison … Continue reading →
In an interesting development in Australia’s long-standing war against feral cats, the authorities have trained a border terrier dog whose name is Marbee to track down feral cats whereupon they are captured and euthanised. This is probably not the first … Continue reading →
There are a couple of reports out today in online newspapers about Australia taking six years to list threatened habitats under their environment laws. The reports point to the fact that the Australian authorities, specifically those people charged with protecting … Continue reading →
The feral cats of America and Australia attract the most interest based upon Google Trends which in turn collects data from Internet searches. It’s an interesting thought that the feral cats of these two countries attract by far the most … Continue reading →
They hope that feral cats will swallow the pellet inside the sausage where it will come to reside inside the cat’s stomach and starve them of oxygen.
Continue reading →As part of Australia’s Threatened Species Strategy farmers and hunters shot around 75% of the total estimated number of feral cats killed in 12 months in 2015-16. The total conservative estimated figure is 211,500 feral cats killed in that year. … Continue reading →
