What affects us affects cats
My understanding of this study (see base of page) is that there are four reasons why Australian cat owners keep their cats inside their home. And there are five different ways of owning a cat in terms of containing them inside the home or allowing them outside. Australians have the highest domestic cat containment …
‘Qld’ is a shortened version of Queensland, Australia. So the question is, it illegal for cats to roam in the state of Queensland, Australia? This state covers the top right hand corner of the Australian continent (northeastern Australia). It is not illegal for cats to roam in Queensland as far as I can tell …
A new study concluded that there are 1.92 million feral cats in Australia or 1 per 4 square kilometres. Some Australian experts and doom-mongers had estimated 20 million. They were wrong. The researchers analysed 100 studies to come to their conclusion. There are two interesting observations. There are an estimated 50 million feral cats …
Dr Ben Allen, a wildlife researcher and an expert on dingoes, living in Australia has provoked uproar by urging Australia to consider exporting its wild dogs as meat to Asian countries including China to feed their diners! When are Australia going to get their act together? What are they going to start behaving in …
There must be an alternative way to deal with the feral cat problem other than simply slaughtering them by their millions in an attempt to eradicate them. The Australian government thinks they can eradicate them or reduce their numbers to a level where they are no longer a threat to native species. As you …
This is a comment from Pippa Mealings who lives in Australia. It is a very fair-minded and sensible comment based on fact not supposition which all of the misguided estimates by the authorities are when they describe how domestic and feral cats decimate native wildlife in Australia. “In mentioning Australia, the following fact should be …
I don’t want to criticize a veterinarian but sometimes you just have to. In my experience some vets (perhaps a small number) in Australia can tend to have a slightly biased attitude against the domestic cat, which I have gathered from reading their comments on the internet. That is possibly due to the fact …
A Bengal cat shot is Australia (Queensland) is no surprise to me as this cat temporarily went astray and in the State of Queensland feral cats are considered a Class 2 pest animal, which under the legislation of that State can be shot. They call it “Field shooting”. In New South Wales (NSW) similar …
