What affects us affects cats
Phenix City administrators have unilaterally decided to respond to complaints of feral cats at Idle Hour Park by trapping the cats in the park. They say that they will take them to a local shelter from where it is hoped that they will be adopted. But how practical or realistic is that and how …
“I don’t think anybody purposefully stole them..” – Bridgette Gill of the TNR rescue group Purrfect Paws & Pals She thinks that the traps were mistaken for junk and taken to be scrapped as on the day they were taken trash collection takes place and people leave stuff out. People scan the front of …
In Eugene Oregon, USA, at the Lane County landfill site there are stray and feral cats feeding off the waste. Concerned residents have apparently complained that members of staff working at the landfill site are intentionally killing cats. This is denied by the management but they do admit that cats at the site are …
The population of the internationally known cats on ‘Cat Island’ which is actually Ao Island (Aoshima), has declined sharply of late from 90 individuals in 2014 to around 30 today, I am told by The Telegraph newspaper. It is believed that they have been poisoned. Witnesses state that they they have seen fish at …
Four SPCA Wake County ‘Career Cats’ recently found a home with a lovely family on their 7-acre homestead and are living the good life! You may remember two of those cats, Butters and Grayson, who were featured in a December article at PoC where the two feral cats asked ‘Santa’ for a barn home. …
A Garfield Heights, Ohio woman has been ordered to report to the county jail on August 11 at 9 a.m. after she was convicted of feeding stray cats. Nancy Segula, 79, started feeding the cats in her Havana Road neighborhood in Garfield Heights back in 2017. During an interview with Fox8 News, Nancy described …
PETA in America (the home of PETA) has a clear policy on how to deal with feral cats and it distinctly clashes with the policy of PETA in India. PETA in America PETA does not advocate killing all feral cats as a humane way to deal with them. They believe that TNR (trap-neuter-release) is …
At Half Moon Bay in Croton on Hudson (which is just north of New York City, USA) the board of the homeowners association (HOA board) banned the feeding of a loved and cared for feral cat colony which severely affects the running of the TNR program. TNR programs include the careful feeding of feral …
