What affects us affects cats
For about seven years it appears that a serial cat killer has been going about his business with a machete in south-east London, UK. Only now have people realised that the reports of butchered, missing and injured cats are probably linked. Despite that, the local police force have decided that the most recent victim …
We know that farmers, specifically cattle herders, use poison to kill predators such as the African lion. They do this by lacing the carcass of a cow with poison. This can have the effect of wiping out a whole pride of lions but in addition it also kills the vultures which feed on the …
Although fairly rare (but less rare than we believe) serial cat killers are all around us. They could be anywhere. Mostly they’re never discovered. We only hear about them in online news media stories through the discovery of their victims. We hear about a batch of cats which have been killed in a certain …
By Betsy Anderson of TJT (Tiger’s Justice Team) Although the TJT News Page is less than a month old, Tiger’s Justice Team itself recently marked its three month anniversary. We began as a small group of concerned individuals, united by our determination to pursue all legal means to achieve justice in the Kristen Lindsey …
Tell me if you agree with me that SPCA welfare officer Anna Porteous says completely the wrong thing and sends a bad message to cat killers. The background story is simple but very sad. A 44-year-old man was looking after someone’s cat in his home. The cat damaged the guy’s curtains so he shot …
Ecosystems are complex. In order to understand the role of the domestic cat in respect of predation, it is important to recognise that the cat is one of a large group of predators some of which are native and some introduced (non-native species). Other introduced species such as rats and mice can have an …
Well, it’s Monday the 7th September 2015 and Dr Walter Palmer should be back at his workplace, his dental practice, sometime during this week. He has said he intends to return tomorrow, Tuesday 8th 2015. It will be a memorable day and one I hope he regrets! Sorry if that sounds a bit mean …
Vester Lee Flanagan II (aka Bryce Williams) killed his cats before killing two television journalists on live TV. I guess you have heard about the murders as it is world news and in every newspaper. To murder on live television was a USA first and it took US gun homicides to a new dimension. …
