A Michael Broad Blog
I had no idea. I was reading a news story – a nice news story – of a German ginger cat who went walkabout 15 years ago and was found by 19 year old Kilian Schoettel. The cat had an identification tattoo on his ear. This allowed his owner to be identified by the …
Animal Rescue Australia | Home Page Wild Cats A-Z Cat Breeds A-Z — the most comprehensive single map and page on Australian animal rescue on the internet (as at 3-2012 – things change!). This is a map showing 82 place markers for (a) Australian animal shelter facilities and (b) the operational …
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 …
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 …
Feral cat Australia – someone cares about him. Most are not so lucky Photo by alexanderino Contents Comment – Intro PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1986 (as amended) Purpose – section 1 Cruelty – section 9 punishment Aggravated Cruelty – section 10 Defences – section 11 Serious Offences – section 12 DOMESTIC …
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 …
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 …
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 …
