What affects us affects cats
This is a little feral cat story; perhaps not untypical which is why I like it. The cat who has no name had been ear tipped and therefore had been managed by a volunteer doing TNR work. The ear tipping was barely visible because hair had grown over it. This is an interesting issue …
There is often a silent battle between TNR volunteers and hotels. It is played out on the ground and on Facebook. Once again, this is a story of the silent battle, replete with dirty tricks, between feral cat colony caretakers and the ugly side of commercial businesses (often hotels incidentally). Worldwide, commercial enterprises in …
Twenty-two years is a long time for volunteers to look after a feral cat colony at one particular location. That location is an industrial park in North Redondo Beach, in the County of Los Angeles, USA. You wouldn’t notice it. It looks like a garbage area. It’s about 20′ x 10′ in size and …
Zoo Miami, aka Miami-Dade zoological Park and Gardens, have decided that they need to get rid of all the cats that are living outside, around their zoo in order, I suppose, to raise their profile by “cleaning up” the area. In order to do this the management have decided to apply TNR principles to …
I have been involved in relocating a feral cat colony. This describes what happened. I was invited to a closed meeting of a cat rescue group; very unusual since I only hung on the outskirt of the group and wasn’t a member. The topic of discussion was moving a feral cat colony to a …
by Michael (London) Feral Cats – photo by Feral Indeed! There is a thought that Relocating Feral Cats is one viable way of managing feral cat colonies. It is an alternative or an addition to the classic trap neuter return model. But does it work? The answer would seem to be Yes and No. …
