If you want to know how many rusty-spotted cats there are in the world today, 2022, you won’t get an answer from the top experts on wildlife conservation and protection because they don’t know the answer. They simply do not know the number of mature individuals that exist in the wild of this cute wild …
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NEWS AND COMMENT: It’s reported that there are fewer than 60 caracals remaining on the Cape Peninsula, that beautiful part of the world which is loved by many people. Clearly there are too many people and too many cars and too many roads. When you build roads across the habitat of a medium-sized wild cat …
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Nathan Winograd has a nice way of checking whether your significant other, or significant other1 to be, is worthy of your time and affections. Nathan Winograd and Jennifer, his significant other, always doublecheck what they’ve driven passed beside the road because sometimes that “object” looks like it might have been an abandoned animal in need. …
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UK – NEWS AND COMMENT: Natalie Bennett is a star because she does something that a lot of people can’t do. She recovers the dead bodies of cats hit by cars and reunites them with their owners. At first, she was a bit squeamish about it but she now focuses on the good aspects of …
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Would you swerve your car when driving on the road to avoid hitting a cat? Pretty well everyone would not swerve to avoid a cat because to do so would be potentially dangerous. You have a split second to make a decision and the overriding instinct is self-preservation which means maintaining the same course if …
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These facts about cats involved in road traffic accidents (RTAs) come from several studies (see base of page). The overall conclusion is one that you’d expect. Many cats are involved in RTAs and 25% die. Young male cats are most at risk. Some individual facts contain merged sub-facts and contradictions. For younger cats, a greater …
ROLLINSFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA-NEWS AND COMMENT: This is indeed a tragedy. We don’t know whether the good Samaritan was a woman or a man but news media reports that they tried to remove a cat from the centre of the roadway on Portland Avenue. It happened at around 10:45 PM. The person was struck by …
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Young male cats either entire or neutered are far more likely to be involved in road traffic accidents compared to older cats. Specifically, for every one-year increase in age the odds of a domestic cat being involved in a road accident decreased by 16%. The odds for males being in a road traffic accident were …
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NEWS AND VIEWS: Cat lovers will be pleased about the outcome of this story. The picture is indirectly a ‘cat picture’ but we see no cat. But we do know that the red Toyota Prius which is resting precariously on top of a Jeep is a taxi and the taxi driver avoided a cat on …
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I probably don’t have the right to provide advice to Giles Coren about how to care for his domestic cat companions but I’m going to anyway. Although, I suspect that he knows the answers already as he is as sharp as a tack. But he provides a very laissez-faire and casual record about the wanderings …
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A woman living in Norwich, Norfolk, UK believes that a 20 mph speed limit for traffic on the road outside her home would have saved the lives of her two cats, both of whom have been killed by speeding cars. She lives on Denmark Road. The sad fact is, though, that there is a 20 …
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We’re not sure how many cats are killed on roads in either the UK or the USA or perhaps any other country. An estimate is that a quarter of a million domestic and stray cats are killed on British roads annually and Wikipedia tells us that in the US, in 1993, 25 schools participated in …
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Although perhaps under the circumstances mistaking a rabbit for your cat is possibly acceptable, this is an extraordinary story. They are, after all, quite different creatures. Cheryl Schmidt, living in Indiana, USA believed that she had found her beloved tortoiseshell-and-white cat dead beside the road. Her cat, Kitty, is quite distinctive as you can see …
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND: A one-eyed tabby cat called Muffin living in the Auckland area of New Zealand (Titirangi) was killed on the road. Her owners, as is quite typical, did not know what had happened to her and they put out a call on a community Facebook page to try and find out. Facebook came …
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According to the Wikipedia numbers it is cat roadkill Armageddon in America. But accuracy is a problem and the question has to be limited to countries like the USA or the UK because accurate data is hard to come by and even for these countries there is quite a lot of guesswork because you have …
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