What affects us affects cats
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. …
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, …
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 …
NEWS AND COMMENT – SUDAN: The cat is described as feral. Perhaps it was semi-feral. It found its way into the cockpit of a Tarco Airlines aircraft at Khartoum International Airport and was well hidden. Last Wednesday, half an hour into flight to the Qatari capital Doha the cockpit crew spotted the cat. The …
NEWS AND COMMENT: One of the UK’s top grouse shooting estates say that they legally kill cats which stray onto their estate. The also kill foxes. The estate is the 13,500 acre Bolton Abbey Estate near Skipton in the Yorkshire Dales. The photograph on this page was taken by a visitor and fell runner, …
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 …
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 …
TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA, USA. NEWS AND COMMENT: This is an interesting story about the positive effects of TNR in a Florida community but at the same time also highlighting the diverging viewpoints of residents of the community about the presence of feral cats. As usual, you could divide Americans into two camps with respect …
