What affects us affects cats
By Anna and Michael (of PoC) This is Kiki, an Australian Tiffanie. She’s a rare cat. She lives in Melbourne, Australia with her human guardian, Anna. Anna says: “I bought my cat about 3 years ago and on the certificate it said she was a mix of Persian and Chinchilla cats. She’s very special …
An Australian, eccentric cat lady’s home sells for over a million dollars….. The deceased lady who owned this chaotic mess of a home was a cat lover, an “eccentric cat lady”. The inside of the home looks awful and the presenter says it is the worse home she has ever seen. The sale price …
The Australian government, authorities and experts bombard their citizens and the rest of the world with Armageddon-like stories of the decimation of their native wildlife by their hated feral cats. They have been doing this for decades. Their so called experts say that 30 mammal species in Australia have become extinct in 200 years, …
We can see the gradual trend towards domestic cat confinement inside people’s homes and backyards in Australia. In support of that trend and in further encouragement of it, RSPCA Australia has provided information entitled ‘cat containment tips’ within a document prepared by the government of Australian Capital Territory. This is what they recommend, in …
Australians are beginning to believe that domestic cats should be confined to the home and yard 24/7. Laws are changing attitudes. The signs are that there is an attitude shift amongst Australian citizens towards laws that confine domestic cats to their owner’s homes 24/7. The days of the free roaming indoor/outdoor domestic cat are …
The registration of domestic cats with the local authority is quite widely discussed as a way of reducing the number of stray and therefore, ultimately, feral cats. In short, cat registration is a way of improving the standard of cat ownership. However, many see it as too intrusive on a person’s freedoms. It is a …
By Sarah Hartwell The Susuki was a short-lived breed created in Australia in 1957 and developed for about a decade as an “experimental breed”. At that time, the genetics of blue eyes was not properly understood. This article appeared in “The Age,” Monday March 13, 1961 (a newspaper from Melbourne, Australia): “Mr Douglas Greening, …
Frankly it astonishes me that when you research cat attack statistics you see cold figures with no attempt whatsoever to analyse what caused a particular cat to attack a person which is vital information if attacks by domestic cat on their owners or friends are to be reduced. In fact, it is worse …
