What affects us affects cats
This is a follow-up story about a man who lived in a neighbourhood in America, specifically, 200 block of Avenida De La Vista, a residential area in unincorporated Indialantic in Brevard County, USA. He liked to feed feral cats. There’s nothing wrong with that and many kind-hearted people do it but it looks as …
This is an embedded FB post. It says it all. I really have almost nothing to add. I wrote about it a while ago but this Facebook post gives us a flavour of the inherent evil of the program. It is evil. Man – and I am not being politically incorrect because it is …
There’s a 5,500 km dingo fence between Queensland and Western Australia. On one side dingoes have been culled to the point where they hardly exist in order to protect livestock. On the other side dingoes live as they live elsewhere in Australia. The fence has created two ecosystems, one on each side of it. …
A feral colony that volunteers helped to spay/neuter in Elkhart, Indiana last fall are losing their home, thanks to a neighbor complaining. This story highlights the split in attitudes in how to manage stray and feral cat colonies. IF YOU’D LIKE TO HELP PLEASE TAKE A LITTLE TIME TO LOBBY THE CITY COUNCILLORS. CLICK …
When I came across this information while researching an article on TNR I knew it was something I wanted to write on because it would greatly aid feral colony caregivers. Read on about the Toronto Recovery Centre for feral cats in central Scarborough. Their website states “In early December 2012, the Recovery Centre opened …
I’ll keep this article short because I mainly wanted to show off this photo of two cats trapped together for TNR. Trapping is step #1 in a successful TNR venture. Vince Sands is pretty good at TNR, as the photo proves. Vince says he’s part of a group caring for a small colony. The cats …
Communities who don’t support trap-neuter-return (TNR) are part of the problem of the cat overpopulation issue. Here’s why. I’ll use “Susan” as an example in both cases. Susan lives in a non-TNR community Susan came to her local shelter with a feral who has been living in her yard. She wanted to do the …
The B.C. SPCA confirms what those involved in trap-neuter-return (TNR) already know: the program works! Over the past seven years, funding for grantees across the British Columbia province has resulted in 830 community cats being fixed. During that time the cat colonies have decreased in size and health has improved in the colony cats …
