Tolerant British Accept Invader Cats
If you let your cat go outside through a cat flap at his pleasure, you are allowing yourself to enter a world of shared cat ownership. It is a cat-human relationship that is somewhere...
Tagged: stray cats
Killing Cats: The Open Faucet (Tap)
There is a double whammy effect when a country has a policy of killing unwanted cats. If the cats killed are feral cats – and almost all trapped feral cats are killed – other...
Spotted Street Cats of Cyprus
This is a nice picture of three beautifully spotted, street cats of Cyprus. Their coats are very high quality spotted tabby. They are a “a spotted male and some of his family”. The three...
I couldn’t leave a stray calico cat behind
By Gabriel This is the stray that came to us after leaving the gym — photo to follow hopefully – update a day late….see photo below: She kept on calling out and rubbing and...
Catster Article is Fiction and Biased Against the Cat
I would like to put my spin on the Catster article entitled: “People Who Feed Stray and Feral Cats Make Me Mad” written by Meghan Lodge. The article makes a good fundamental point but...
Improving Cat Welfare Through Information
There is little chance of improving cat welfare if the public and the authorities don’t know or understand what the problems are. A lot of what is going wrong with respect to the cat...
I Like Minneapolis (and St. Paul)!
I like Minneapolis because the city council are debating a change in the city’s attitude on controlling stray and feral cats. At the moment the policy is: Catch and Kill stray cats, while at...
Stray cats: time to stop writing and to start doing
I am bored. I am bored reading about feral and stray cats and their impact on wildlife in the United States. I am bored seeing the same old recycled articles – beautifully written –...
Fluffy and Angel
By Christine Dahlgren Fluffy…My favorite stray My apartment complex was overrun by what the owners were calling “feral” cats. Sadly many of these cats had belonged to someone at one point. They either got...
Why is it hard to slim an overweight cat?
The answer can be found in our attitude and behavior. The biggest problem is that we can tend to set up a routine of overfeeding. The cat’s owner enjoys feeding their cat because it...
Look To Cat Owners to Fix the Feral Cat Problem
The authorities and scientists in some countries (USA and Australia, for example) are concerned that feral, stray and domestic cats prey on native wildlife to the point where species are endangered. Other countries, such...
A Cat Bite Can Hospitalise You
A person should never receive a cat bite. It’s about cat management and knowing what you can and can’t do. It’s about reading a cat’s demeanor and attitude and being sensitive to body language....
Guns Cats and the Constitution
The Sandy Hook School massacre of 20 young and innocent children makes it impossible not to address the gun laws in the United States, no only for the sake of people of all ages...
The Roman Cat And The Lost Catacomb
By Elisa Black-Taylor The Roman Cat and the Lost Catacomb sounds like the title to an adventure film, much in the tradition of Indiana Jones. This is the true story of a stray cat...
Community Cats
Community cats sounds a lot a lot better than feral cats. Free roaming cat is better than feral cat too. Why don’t we start calling feral cats “community cats”? We don’t know, but community...
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