Picture of six Aboriginal Australians with the feral cat they killed

Aboriginal Australians with the feral cat they killed

Aboriginal Australians have a history of living on bushmeat (bush tucker). I am told that they are good trackers and have a tradition of hunting cats, which can only mean feral cats as there are no other cat species on the Australian continent. The feral cats of Australia are there for one reason: people …

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Volunteers wanted to relocate island feral cats while the government wanted to euthanize them

Little Bay Islands young cats

Little Bay Islands is off the coast of Newfoundland and the entire colony of human inhabitants have upped sticks and moved to the mainland a while ago. The island is uninhabited but they left behind a few colonies of feral cats. Not everyone cared that the feral cats might starve because they were dependant …

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Japanese study of TNR feral cat colony tells us that cat food is their main food supply

Japanese feral cat with large rat in his mouth

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 …

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Famed Japanese ‘Cat Island’ cats are being poisoned

Ao Island cats a tourist attraction

The population of the internationally known cats on ‘Cat Island’ which is actually Ao Island (Aoshima), has declined sharply of late from 90 individuals in 2014 to around 30 today, I am told by The Telegraph newspaper. It is believed that they have been poisoned. Witnesses state that they they have seen fish at …

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