What affects us affects cats
New Zealand’s drive to eliminate feral cats under the Predator Free 2050 initiative has captured headlines for its ambition: protect native wildlife from a relentless predator. Conservation authorities describe feral cats as an invasive species and “stone-cold killers,” responsible for the decline of birds, reptiles, and insects. Proposed methods include aerially dropped poisoned baits, kill traps, …
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’ …
Reddit.com is Google’s favourite at the moment. A big favorite. And they have a ‘sub-reddit’ (a reddit discussion topic) about Disneyland. An ideal opportunity to rely on the small army of Reddit users to answer the question in the title: Have you ever been lucky enough to see a Disneyland cat? Which was lifted …
OPINION AND COMMENT PLEASE NOTE: Like other animal advocates I am disgusted and shocked at New Zealand’s attitude towards feral cats and the desensitisation of New Zealand children towards causing pain in animals, to ignoring the sentience of animals, in this notorious and controversial annual competition in North Canterbury in which children and their …
Phew, this picture is a little hard to look at. For me it is very sad. It’s been on Reddit.com for six years and no one has taken it down in that time which is admirable. It is a social statement picture. The kind of picture that normally features humans but here we have …
A true domestic cat, i.e. a cat that has been thoroughly socialised and who has lived with their caregiver, cannot become a true feral cat because they cannot lose that initial, early several weeks of socialisation before they are about 7-weeks-of-age. That will remain with them all their lives. The process is immutable. However, …
I’ve just visited a holiday forum on the Internet. One resident said that if you are making your first visit to Cyprus “you should be warned that animal cruelty is prevalent here”. They said that it was the “one thing I hate most about living in Cyprus after 10+ years and it doesn’t get …
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 …
