A Michael Broad Blog
At heart this is really a discussion about cat overpopulation in America and in the UK. Is there a cat overpopulation problem? The simple answer is, yes, because too many cats are killed at shelters because they are unwanted. However, this is a very complicated topic. Some people say that there isn’t a cat …
An updating report to one carried out five years ago by the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies tells us that progress has been made in reducing the number of unwanted cats in the country but more work is required. On an upbeat note, however, it is good to see that progress is being made …
What would happen if cats overpopulate the earth? The question has been asked on the quora.com website and there are no decent answers. One person wrote that it would be a disaster for wildlife by which they mean cats would kill lots of wild animals. The first point to make is that the question …
Cat overpopulation in the United States is entrenched. Resolving it is an elusive task. There have been no major initiatives to the best of my knowledge to resolve cat overpopulation. The major problem is that there are too many people who do not sufficiently value the life of the domestic cat. These people regard …
About a year ago Dr Gareth Morgan an economist more or less advocated the mass eradication of stray and feral cats in New Zealand on the basis that they were attacking wildlife and the usual other reasons which people who don’t like cats disseminate. There is a sizeable percentage of New Zealanders who want …
Feral Cat – photo by in-the-woods [Gary] under Creative Commons License No need for solutions to cat overpopulation as there is no problem. There is underpopulation, in fact. The argument goes that animal rights extremists (ARs) are misrepresenting the true situation. ARs say that the high number of cat and dogs in shelters indicates …
by Anonymous and added to by Michael (USA and UK) In Georgia we have a huge over population problem with ferals. I recently started TNR with the feral colony in my area. I went through several animal clinics before I found Project CatSnip, a humane program for ferals in Atlanta They have been a …
