A Michael Broad Blog
People want to know if feral cats are protected by law. This is a huge question and my answer is somewhat vague. It is difficult to answer cleanly because statutes on animal welfare are complicated and feral cats are both treated as ‘vermin’ in some places and are sometimes stray domestic cats. It is …
I have a terribly biased attitude about the Chinese and animal welfare. I am almost ashamed of it but then I tell myself that until now all the evidence that I have seen supports my attitude. I have said it before many times: there are no animal welfare laws in China and there’s a …
The American Bird Conservancy (ABC) had decided to sue, in the New York federal court, the New York Department of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation (NYS Parks) over the presence of cats at Jones Beach because they allege in their complaint that the cats threaten the existence of the piping plover birds who also …
Princess Michael of Kent, one of Britain’s aristocrats whose family home is in Austria, believes that animals do not have rights because they can’t vote, they don’t have bank accounts and you only have rights if you pay taxes. You have to earn rights and animals don’t earn rights and therefore they do not …
There are countless examples of what I would term “pet and partner abuse”. They go hand-in-hand. It is an international problem. Because there is a close connection between battered women in abusive homes and abused pets there is a need to extend battered women shelter accommodation to include their cats, dogs and other companion …
They went duck hunting and ended up hunting household cats but of course they’d probably say they were feral cats (how can you tell?) and that they had a legal right to do what they did. Wrong. They were household cats and the police believe they have found the woman who is their caretaker. …
by Michael (London, UK) Date: 27th January 2011: The USA is desperate to deal with “the feral cat problem” but does it have the will, means, courage or imagination to do it properly and humanely? It seems that they are deciding to shoot ’em instead. I am referring to the proposed state of Utah’s …
by Wendy (Michigan) The epidemic we have with cats domesticated and feral, comes from having no laws that hold irresponsible cat owners responsible and accountable for their cats. I believe in the welfare of the cats, humans, wildlife, environment as a whole. I don’t believe in the TNR program because TNR only focuses on …
