What affects us affects cats
The UK seems to be following some city councils in the USA. The councillors (the lawmakers) of Nottingham have decided to ban the feeding of a colony of feral cats in a place called Woodlane Gardens “with immediate effect”. If the cat lovers refuse to comply they’ll be fined. The people who feed the …
‘It’s mostly the uneducated that praise me but all the educated people hate me.’ – says Karachi’s cat woman who has been feeding homeless, hungry kittens and cats, daily, for 17 years. On the one occasion she was too ill to feed them she made arrangements for someone else to do it. She says …
The Niagara Falls, New York community is the focus this month of a heated debate between feral cat caregivers and those who say the cats are causing more harm than good. Niagara Falls City Council member Kristen Grandinetti is at the forefront of this issue, as she has introduced tabled legislation that would tighten …
A Catoosa County, Georgia woman is facing charges for feeding a colony of feral cats in Fort Oglethorpe. The city has a new ordinance making it illegal for people to feed feral cats. Residents are upset because they’ve been tending to the cats for years and fear the cats will starve to death since …
Michael Marra, 59, an ex-firefighter, and Bloomfield resident, fed and cared for a colony of around 90 feral cats living at the extensive Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford. He had done this continuously for ten years and then the police, last December, decided to charge him for illegally trespassing on sports complex land …
This is an interesting video of a feral cat preying on garden wildlife, in America, which highlights some of the conflicting attitudes people have in respect of the feral cat. However, it is a video in which the maker demonstrates his love of nature. This sensitive and aware American video maker says he loves …
I have made these two videos for PoC.org in which I am feeding my feral colony in front of my main gate, as I am suffering from severe pain of kidney stone, and I could not visit the colony for several days due to admission in the hospital. Here they are: Note from Michael …
West Orange Township, New Jersey has passed a ban on the feeding of stray and feral cats. Residents and visitors to this New Jersey community are now banned from feeding wildlife warning: “No person shall feed any wildlife, excluding confined wildlife, anywhere within the Township.” The previous ordinance only disallowed feeding on West Orange …
