What affects us affects cats
Efforts to protect native wildlife in Australia and New Zealand have received a significant boost with the development of a new bait designed to humanely control feral cat populations. The Department of Conservation (DOC) in New Zealand has announced that a specially formulated meat-based bait, known as Felixers™, has demonstrated strong early results in …
Cat contraception would be wonderful especially for feral cats with a focus on the persecuted feral cats of Australia. Think of the huge amount of pain and distress caused to feral cats by the authorities on that continent in an effort to make feral cats extinct through shooting and poisoning. Contraception would be painless …
The BBC is asking whether cats should be culled to stop extinctions. Of course, the author is discussing the culling of feral cats primarily in places where there are native species preyed upon by these cats. There have been rare instances of species being made extinct by predation from feral cats; hence the question. …
This is a report on a study looking at a durable contraceptive for female feral cats to try and control numbers in the US. We constantly read about feral cats decimating wildlife although, if we are honest, we don’t know accurately the impact feral cats have on the population numbers of the feral cats’ …
It looks like the desire and desperate need to find an effective contraceptive for cats has resulted a group of scientists creating one. Potentially this is a very important development as there are too many unwanted cats in the world. The study (see title below) starts off with the words, “Eighty percent of the …
Today, The New York Times reports on cat contraception. This, as I see it, is the Holy Grail for many people concerned about the procreation of stray and feral cats. TNR programs are effective in a limited way because they are conducted in a limited way. The task is too big to control the …
There have been some contraceptive pills for cats available in the past but as I understand it, they produce side effects that were unwelcome and/or they are not a hundred percent effective which is why people go for the surgical route on feline contraception. There is a third option which is artificial stimulation of …
Cat owners are not used to discussing cat contraceptives because it is commonplace to neuter and spay domestic cats. Why aren’t cat contraceptives more popular? It is probably because (1) cats are the patients rather than people and it is easier and more certain to spay female cats than to administer contraceptives and (2) …
