I decided to visit a Chinese social media website to see what is happening on the other side of the world. An alien world to the one we are used to. Chinese websites are very different to those in the West. They have masses of video and images all piled on top of each other. …
It is said that Australia’s out-of-control mouse plague could last for up to 2 years unless the government takes urgent action in giving farmers free poison which is an anticoagulant. The mice die of internal bleeding. The trouble is that the poison is dangerous to other wildlife. Trying to kill a specific animal with poison …
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The Times newspaper informs me that more than 300,000 acres of German farmland have been stripped of their grass and the landscape reduced to a lunar vision by a plague of mice. It is believed that the cause of the rapid multiplication and population growth of mice in the state of Lower Saxony originates in …
In 2019, Cats Protection in the UK had more requests than ever before from farmers to provide feral cats as pest controllers. They say that semi-feral farm cats are better than chemicals in controlling pest. In 2019 we had more requests to provide feral cats then we have ever done. – David Maners, co-ordinator of …
I like the description of a feral cat barn relocation programme as akin to an unemployment agency or job center for cats. It’s a term used by Maria, an intern, in her article for Dallas News.com (good article by the way). She takes it from Jeanne Saadi, the managing director of Mesquite Animal Services. She …
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Four SPCA Wake County ‘Career Cats’ recently found a home with a lovely family on their 7-acre homestead and are living the good life! You may remember two of those cats, Butters and Grayson, who were featured in a December article at PoC where the two feral cats asked ‘Santa’ for a barn home. Butters …
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The City of Edmonton is located in Alberta, Canada and has a population estimated at 1,429,743. Unfortunately, the city is also home to roughly 65,000 cats. Edmonton made the news today after the city pled guilty relating to the death of three feral cats in 2018. The city pleaded guilty on Monday to charges …
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Cold calling is to make an unsolicited call on (someone), by telephone or in person, in an attempt to sell goods or services. A Montana animal shelter director used ‘cold calls’ to find homes for over 120 feral working cats in a bit over a year’s time. Cliff Bennett is the director of Flathead County …
This article is a discussion on how to successfully turn a feral colony cat into a barn cat. While there are many online articles on the topic, I hope some of you with hands-on experience will share your tips. Jo Edwards summed it up well in a January 17 Facebook post (be sure to check …
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The video shows a reporter in an animal shelter discussing the placement of 20 cats rescued from the devastating Camp Fire in California. Some are in very small cages. I don’t want to be critical, I just want to be observant. These small cages are too small by quite a margin. The major point that …
According to a report by CBS13 Sacramento, barn cats will be available for adoption in Sacramento starting on Saturday, January 19. A group of feral cats from Butte County who survived the Camp Fire is currently at the Bradshaw Animal Shelter. These cats aren’t the lap cats who want to cuddle and play type. They’re …
Butters and Grayson are two feral cats in North Carolina. They recently wrote to Santa asking for a forever barn home. The two are bonded and will need to stay together. Butters and Grayson entered the barn cat program back in March. The program is a project offered by no-kill SPCA of Wake County. The cats …
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This is an example of how a local feral cat population can be properly managed. It’s happening in Marin County, USA. Janet Williams, the co-founder and president of Marin Friends of Ferals, explains what she means by feral cats being managed properly. Janet has worked with feral cats in and around Marin for 14 years. …
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This is the happy ending story of a cat who recently made a friend who just happens to be a horse. The video was presumably made in a barn in the U.S. and shows how two animals who formed an unusual “friendship” when the opportunity for a nap arose. Anyone family with farm animals know …
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What are barn cat good for? They are good for keeping down the rodent population either by a deterrence or by hunting them and being companions to livestock or domesticated animals such as horses. Barn cats need to be cared for however.
