Australian Wild Cats

Original map: Wikimedia Commons – Author: Maximilian Dörrbecker (Chumwa) – modified slightly by me. There are no Australian wild cats other than feral cats. In other words there is no native species of wild cat in Australia in the wild. This is surprising as the Far East is an area of the world where …

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The cat is the scapegoat for the decline in Australian wildlife

by Deborah Cameron (Australia) Feral cat Australia – Photo by betta design (Flickr) Romanticism means the longing for things past. This is very true of the people and organisations trying to remove feral cats from Australia. But which past, the past before white settlement? Maybe not a good choice, since over 40,000 years the …

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Darwin, Australia, has loads of unwanted stray cats

by Naomi (Darwin Australia) Marzipan Unfortunately Darwin (Australia) has loads of unwanted stray cats and many are dumped in the bush to die horrible deaths. Many more hang around housing commission places to feed off scraps – a usual story worldwide. I have 22 rescue cats – some have been rescued from shelters, some …

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Cats used for crab bait in Northern Territory, Australia

by Naomi (Australia) Bobby on arrival This is a sad story of cats being used for crab bait in Northern Territory, Australia. Recently on my bike ride to work from the suburbs into Darwin, I happened upon a pile of ‘feral’ ‘stray’ generally unowned cats in a housing commission set of units. Most were …

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