What affects us affects cats
Gilbert, Arizona, USA: Paul Rodriguez, 64, believes that he has spent up to $100,000 over 14 years feeding feral cats, ABC News reports. He has been fined countless times and had several run-ins with the police over the past year. In fact in the past month the police have intervened in his activities five …
HILLIARD, Ohio: I don’t have access to any of the American websites reporting this story which is of interest to me because these websites do not comply with European Union regulations on privacy and rather than complying they simply make the website inaccessible to people residing in Europe. However, I do have access to …
Concerned people want to know how feral cats stay warm in winter. The fact of the matter is that most often feral cats don’t stay warm in the winter but they put up with it because they are able to. True feral cats, cats born in the wild, have adapted to extreme temperatures and …
This study came to the conclusion that TNR volunteers managing a feral cat colony on Tokunoshima Island might cause what the scientists call ‘hyper-predation’ of local native species. What they mean is that the cats are helped by people feeding them. They think that by feeding the cats there is more predation of native …
It is impractical, for two reasons, to make laws which stop people feeding feral cats. Firstly, it is almost impossible to enforce such a law bearing in mind the manpower available in a police department to do the job and how they prioritise their workload. And many people feed feral cats at awkward times, …
The title to this post is very similar to the words used in an updated law concerning Plattsburgh, New York. The existing law is called Dogs and Cats at Large. The updating, carried out by an amendment to the law, states that “A person who regularly feeds a dog or cat on their property, …
“Robin Stevens (a commenter on Facebook) said: Oh I bet that judge knew what kind of acid rain would fall if there was no compromise.” He is correct. The situation demanded compromise and a sensibe and pragmatic approach as Nancy is essential doing good things and helping the community. I don’t have access to …
This is Denver and we have an 86-year-old lady, Earnestine Jackson, whose daughter had sympathy on three feral cats in her mother’s backyard so she feed and watered them. That’s all she did. That was nice of her and understandable but the situation required more. Unfortunately she did not think about TNR which would …
