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July 8, 2022
Here are four topics to think about if your cat really wants to go outside and you accept it: Minimising outdoor risks; Prepare the outdoors for your cat; Advantages of going outdoors; Disadvantages of...
May 5, 2022
This is about the indoor-outdoor cat debate primarily. This is a huge topic and I touch on some of those issues in this article (which has become rambling I am afraid). The debate about...
April 17, 2022
Usually, the discussion about protecting wildlife from predation by domestic cats is binary: either you confine them to the home or you allow them to be free-roaming. A lot of people think domestic cat...
March 27, 2022
NEWS AND COMMENT-AUSTRALIA: The Australian authorities have been disseminating negative propaganda about feral and domestic cats for years. The objective of local, state and federal legislation is to kill all the feral cats on...
October 27, 2021
NEW ZEALAND-NEWS AND COMMENT: The cat news emanating from New Zealand (stuff.co.nz) is that New Zealanders are “locking down their cats for good”. In other words, there is a trend for keeping domestic cats...
September 13, 2021
A study which appears to have been organised by the website The Conversation found that the reason why 53% of cat owners living in the Australian state of Victoria kept their cats inside was...
July 25, 2021
An Internet search tells me that by 2004 just over half of all cats in the US were strictly indoor cats. And, by 2014, I’m told that about 70% of cats are defined as...
June 21, 2021
By and large, Britons accept the fact that their domestic cat hunts and kills prey but there is a percentage who don’t like it because, for example, they see it as unnecessary and cruel....
April 4, 2021
Because his wife, Sandy, was severely allergic to cats, John Spevak and Sandy decided very early on that Skyy, their beloved cat companion, should live outside the home his entire life. And he lived...
January 28, 2021
Almost 50% of domestic cats, based on an international survey, are kept indoors for their safety as their owners are worried about traffic, being attacked by a predator or stolen by thieves. The survey...
October 6, 2020
The answer to the question is not straightforward because you have to factor in health and welfare as well as happiness.
September 4, 2019
The answer to the question depends on (1) your personal opinion and (2) where the cat lives. There is no strictly correct, general, all-encompassing answer to the question in the title. A survey is...
January 8, 2019
Why would anyone let their cat or kitten go outside? The question points at a failure in domestic cat ownership. This really is a failure which needs to be addressed. There is a huge...
April 12, 2018
PETA says: Allowing cats to roam outdoors unattended is just as dangerous and unwise as allowing a toddler to wander down the street alone. What do you think? We must think cats are dispensable.
November 2, 2016
In a town at the center of England, Tamworth, cats represent over 50% of all animals killed on the roads. I would argue that this is quite possibly typical of many towns in the...
