New Zealand: man who trapped and drowned eight cats thought he was doing the right thing

ANALYSIS AND NEWS – WARNING: this content may upset some people so please don’t read on if it does. I’m writing about it because it does illustrate how a nation’s culture with respect to a certain aspect of their life can sometimes result in unacceptable and unpleasant consequences. In New Zealand, as is the …

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All Bird-Eating Predators Including Cats to Be Exterminated from New Zealand

In what has been described as the most ambitious conservation project (I wouldn’t describe it as that) the government of New Zealand plans to kill, over a period of 35 years, all predators who prey on birds in New Zealand. This of course must include feral cats. New Zealand has a not too dissimilar …

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Robotic Feral Cat Killers Have Been Devised by Australians

We know that Australians in government are waging a war against the dreaded feral cat in their country because they feel that it is killing too many native wild animals. There have been many proposals on the best way to kill feral cats. They are all inhumane. TNR has never been discussed. Now they …

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Mass Killing of Feral Cats Would Be Illegal

killing feral cats is impractical

In New Zealand and Australia, and in many areas of North America, there is this constant battle between two opposing forces: those that wish to trap and kill feral cats to eradicate them and those on the other side of the fence who wish to pursue the more humane policy of TNR. The simple …

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Killing Feral Cats: Do Australians Know What They Are Doing?

It is well-known in the cat world and even outside of it that the Australian authorities wish to eradicate the feral cats of Australia because they consistently say that feral cat destroys precious native wild species. They sometimes hunt them. Australians also have been hunting down dingos for donkey’s years –  actually about 70 years. …

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North Ridgeville Kitten Killer: Update

By Elisa Black-Taylor This is an update on the North Ridgeville humane officer who is accused of killing five 8-10 week old kittens on June 10, 2013. This article chronicles events beginning on the day the kittens were killed and ending with the Ohio SPCA threatening a lawsuit against North Ridgeville if five conditions …

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