What affects us affects cats
Arie Trouwborst, an environmental law specialist at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and Han Somsen, at the same university, say that European Union law insists that cat owners in Europe should keep the cats inside the home to protect wildlife. In any event, from the EU law perspective it is ultimately the result that …
NEWS AND ANALYSIS: if you read the online news media on the subject of cats as I have over more than a decade you have to notice a very gradual trend towards domestic cat confinement to protect wildlife. Attitudes are changing. There’s no doubt about this trend which has been accelerated by the public’s …
For American who don’t live with a cat (and even those who do), one of life’s annoyances is their neighbour’s cat peeing and pooping on their carefully tended backyard. We read about it quite a lot online. It is an area of domestic cat ‘ownership’ which is liable to cause friction. Another is the …
This photograph has mood. It puts us into the mind of this young cat at a shelter as she looks up and out surrounded by her cage. I’m not criticising animal shelters as, in general, they provide a very valuable service to society and to domestic and stray cats. But perhaps we’ve become too …
Ed Sheeran’s sprawling property empire in Framlingham lends itself perfectly to a large cat enclosure using ProtectaPet. I’d strongly recommend this because of these reasons: He loves cats and had three, He now has two cats because Graham, a rescue tabby who he loved dearly, was recently killed on the road and, He has …
Handsome, mischievous boy, isn’t he? My cat is sitting on top of the overhang part of a cat confinement fence that encircles my garden. He accepted the fence and being confined for 18 months and then escaped by chewing through the plastic netting. Here he is chilling out on top of the fence. This …
When reasonable and possible cat lovers should work with bird lovers on conservation. Cat lovers can’t fight with ornithologists indefinitely. Some ornithologists dislike cats and I understand that. But it is unwise to allow the quiet war between cat lovers and bird lovers to rumble on indefinitely. I am a cat lover but I …
I see Australia have almost completed their famous feral cat-proof fence running for 44 kilometres. It is a typical cat proof fence in appearance; tall with an overhang at the top. The overhang is crucial as it stops cats climbing over the fence. The idea behind the fence is to create a reserve in …
