A Michael Broad Blog
The Conversation website boldly states that “baiting foxes can make feral cats even more brazen”. That statement is based on a study of 1.5 million camera traps photographs taken in forests of Australia. They studied the photographs by hand. ‘Sympatric’ – where wild animals live in the same area or their distribution overlaps. Is …
Peter Goer interviews Bill Lewis for ABC Radio Adelaide. Peter Goer is a gentleman and asks his guest if he shoots feral cats and other pest animals humanely. And Bill said that he does. He said that he shoots with the intention of killing the animals cleanly. Of course he does. He has to …
In 2019, Cats Protection in the UK had more requests than ever before from farmers to provide feral cats as pest controllers. They say that semi-feral farm cats are better than chemicals in controlling pest. In 2019 we had more requests to provide feral cats then we have ever done. – David Maners, co-ordinator …
An agency of the US Dept. of Labor has decided to remove feral cats from its list of vermin under a process of updating the rules: OSHA’s Standards Improvement Project – Phase IV final rule. Great.
The hunters of Victoria, Australia are disappointed that they can’t hunt feral cats and the authorities in this state are confused about shooting feral cats. They declare the feral cat a pest which would normally allow sport hunters of any kind to shoot at them as they shoot at foxes, wild dogs and rabbits. …
The question in the title is a product of a video that has gone viral. It concerns a man punching a possum in New Zealand. He gets out of a car at night and approaches the possum perched on a post on a farm on the South Island of New Zealand. He throws a …
This is another idea to try and reduce the predation of domestic cats on wildlife in New Zealand. New Zealand has a similar policy towards domestic and feral cats as they have in Australia. Currently being discussed by Auckland’s council is the introduction of a city ordinance which allows the local authorities to kill …
This is a complicated area. It is hard to arrive at a clear-cut conclusion. The major reason for this is because it is difficult to describe with complete certainty a cat as a “feral cat”. An outside cat may be someone’s domestic cat. He may be a stray cat, betwixt-and-between domestic and feral. This …
