What affects us affects cats
London and New York are going through a real estate development boom. London’s skyline is littered with cranes as it has been for years. In London, developers are building glitzy, expensive apartments for foreign investors. It provides them with the best profit margins. They have abandoned the city worker. They’re developing disused areas where …
“Mr No Ears” is a famous semi-feral cat who used to live in a well-known colony of cats, the Peneco Beach Colony, in Albufeira, Algarve, Portugal. The colony was under the protection of the Albufeira Municipality. The colony was cared for by a registered street-cat charity called Amigos dos Gatos do Algarve (AGA). They …
We know that Australians in government are waging a war against the dreaded feral cat in their country because they feel that it is killing too many native wild animals. There have been many proposals on the best way to kill feral cats. They are all inhumane. TNR has never been discussed. Now they …
There are claims that global warming will result in more unwanted cats. It looks like humankind has screwed up again and it is ironic that one negative impact of manmade global warming is an increase in feral cats in a country where they are, in general, hated. The feral cat is certainly hated by …
This is a David and Goliath type tussle and it does bring home to us the stark difference in mentality between independent minded women who wish to care for feral cats out of the kindness of their hearts with absolutely no gain in it for them other than the pleasure of helping and saving …
Michael Marra, 59, an ex-firefighter, and Bloomfield resident, fed and cared for a colony of around 90 feral cats living at the extensive Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford. He had done this continuously for ten years and then the police, last December, decided to charge him for illegally trespassing on sports complex land …
For several years, in full public view on the Internet, the Australian authorities have been searching for ways to bring the feral cat on their continent under their control. They want to eradicate the feral cat and have put forward ambitious plans to kill millions but time and again it has dawned upon them …
The photo is beguiling. Three community cats sitting patiently, hunched up, just outside the open sliding door of a supermarket (“Family Mart”) in Japan. Are they politely waiting to be allowed inside at the command of the store manager? Or are they just window shopping? There has been a spate of furry intruders into …
