France: call to trap all domestic cats more than 300 metres from their homes

Willy Schraen

FRANCE: Willy Schraen, 50, the head of the National Federation of Hunters has called for the trapping of all cats no matter whether they are stray or domestic found wandering more than 300 metres from their homes because they are killing wildlife and present an existential menace to birds and other small animals in …

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Picture of cat with owner and birds in cage with cannabis plant in Paris circa 1910

Picture of cat and birds in cage circa 1910

This is an interesting photograph because it contains a strange juxtaposition of various elements. The cat is a tabby-and-white random bred cat judging by appearance. The plant behind the cat is cannabis. To the right of the cannabis is a small aviary. It is considered unwise to have caged birds and a cat in …

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Scientists should positively state that pets can’t spread coronavirus through a new study

Study needed to prove beyond doubt that domestic cats don't or can't spread Covid-19 to people

Time and again, we are told by scientists and experts that “as far as we know” companion animals do not transmit Covid-19 to their human caretakers or other family members. We also see the phrase “there is no evidence to support” the fact that cats can transmit the virus to people. I’m going to …

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Black panther rescued from roof has now been stolen from a zoo

Tranquillised black panther in France

This young black panther (probably a black jaguar) is having a hard time living in the human environment. Firstly, and we don’t know how, she ended up as a pet in somebody’s home in northen France and then escaped onto the roof resulting in an alarming photograph which you can see below about which …

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French husband and wife trophy hunters faced death threats online

Mr and Mrs Alboud trophy hunters

A French couple, Mr and Mrs Alboud, have been forced to sell their supermarket franchise in France after they posed with dead trophy animals on an African safari. As a consequence, they faced death threats online from animal rights activists who circulated Facebook pictures of them. They are pictured with a leopard, crocodile, a …

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