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Australian Capital Territory (ACT) acts humanely towards feral cats while the other jurisdictions do not

As an introduction I would like to say this: the volunteers who manage feral cat colonies under TNR programs are very decent, kind people. They do their work without charge, freely and with a love of the cats. One TNR volunteers sums it up, “The amount of suffering is the reason that we do this”. …

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Nativism and speciesism is behind the mass killing of Australia's feral cats

Australians are ‘nativists’ who want to destroy feral cats and restrict cat ownership

I had never heard of the word ‘nativist’ until Nathan Winograd used it. It is good one when used to describe the Aussie attitude to feral and stray cats. Nativists believe in nativism which means, “the political policy of promoting or protecting the interests of ‘native-born’ or established inhabitants over those of immigrants, including the …

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New Zealand kids shooting feral cats for prize money

New Zealand’s junior school kids love to shoot cats for prize money

NEWS AND COMMENT (Opinion): Will you be as disgusted as I am having read this article? I hope so as it is a failure in child care and inherently cruel. It is about asking kids to engage in potentially criminal activity. It is that bad. The North Canterbury Hunting Competition of New Zealand has been …

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11-year-old girl feeds abandoned cats in devastated Ukraine

11-year-old Ukrainian girl takes on responsibility of feeding abandoned cats in devastated Ukraine

NEWS AND OPINION: The remarkable aspect of this cat rescue story is that the central character is an 11-year-old Ukrainian girl feeding abandon cats in a devastated urban landscape, destroyed by Putin’s artillery and rockets. When she talks to the camera, she points up to the 9th floor of a shattered apartment block and tells …

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Feral cat in Los Angeles

15 ‘facts’ about the feral cat populations of various cities

It’s quite interesting and instructive to take a look at the stray and feral cat populations of various cities of the world. It helps us understand the relationship that citizens of these cities have with domestic, stray and feral cats. In some countries and therefore in some cities feral cats are sometimes referred to as …

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Cats at the port of Newcastle Australia

Becky Robinson uses her influence to fight against government sanctioned killing of cats

Becky Robinson, the founder and President of Alley Cat Allies is throwing her weight behind the fight against what I would describe as state-sponsored killing of unwanted cats. She’s pushing the idea that governments should move away from their objective to kill feral and stray cats to funding widespread TNR programs. Among many people, I …

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Feral cats of Compton, California

Feral cats found dead or dying stuck to glue traps in Compton

COMPTON, CALIFORNIA-NEWS AND COMMENT: The usual feud has been sparked off by the presence of feral cats in Compton. Feral cats have the ubiquitous ability to divide society. On the one hand you have animal rights advocates who are sensitive to the welfare of feral cats even if they agree that they are a problem …

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Virally-vectored immunocontraceptives as a potential population management tool

Immunocontraceptives as a potential feral cat population management tool

I have just seen a tweet from Ellen Cottingham of the University of Melbourne, Australia. The tweet is below. It seemed to be saying to me that in Australia’s drive to eradicate feral cats from their continent they have tried everything and are now looking at feline immunocontraceptives as a potential population management tool. So, …

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Rosie one of the Newcastle Port's community cats who was shot in the eye when the port employed a contractor to cull the cats

Mindless massacre of managed feral cats should be decried internationally

PORT OF NEWCASTLE, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA — NEWS AND COMMENT: Observers of the way the Australian authorities are dealing with feral cats in their country should not be surprised by the mindless massacre of managed feral cats at the Port of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. At least 12 community cats are dead, maimed …

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Woman who has distrubuted a letter to residents of Joplin MO threatening euthanasia of feral cats

Educated person distributes letter threatening euthanasia of feral cats in neighbourhood

Joplin, Missouri, USA: This is clearly an educated person. Initially I thought that it was hard to tell if the person was man or woman but it appears to be established that this is a woman (in her 60s?). The online newspapers say that it’s a woman who was walking around the area with a …

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Feral cats in winter are vulnerable to harm

Let’s think of the feral cats during the exceptionally cold Texas weather

The exceptionally cold Texas weather catastrophe is a global warning. They say that it is a sign of global warming. Fortunately and thankfully the forecast for Houston Texas is that conditions are rapidly warming up this weekend. Temperatures get back to about 20°F. But over the past days I’ve been thinking of the feral cats …

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Cat killing controversy

East Bay Regional Park District staff admit to shooting cats and failing to communicate beforehand

East Bay Regional Park District is a system of parklands and trails in Alameda and Contra Costa counties to the east of San Francisco, California, USA. In all it covers 125,000 acres in seventy-three parks with over 1,250 miles of trails. There is clearly lots of wildlife there, including birdlife. The park staff have a …

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