What affects us affects cats
Efforts to protect native wildlife in Australia and New Zealand have received a significant boost with the development of a new bait designed to humanely control feral cat populations. The Department of Conservation (DOC) in New Zealand has announced that a specially formulated meat-based bait, known as Felixers™, has demonstrated strong early results in …
The world hates rats. Unfair. Speciesism in action. Although, some people love them and this story may change the public profile of this much maligned ‘pest’ so mercilessly persecuted by humans. They are smart and eminently trainable with memories as good as the best sniffer dogs. Being a lot smaller they can rummage around …
My thanks to Maxim Tucker of The Times for writing about animal welfare in Ukraine. I have stolen his title but let’s think of wild animals as well as humans in this devastating and unnecessary war. In Putin’s wanton desire to annex Ukraine in any way he can, he has managed to slaughter a …
Below is a poignant quote from a famous and seriously committed animal advocate, America’s Nathan Winograd, about the US Wildlife Services. Below the quote there is a list of US Wildlife Services goals. And below that there is my assessment. What is yours? I finish with some examples of conflicts between nature and human …
This is a short post to drive a point home about the toxicity of cat flea treatments, the most common of which are the spot-on treatments in which a drop of an insecticide is placed on the cat’s skin between the shoulder blades where the cat can’t get at it. This preventative treatment is …
Lincolnshire Wildlife Park has a problem with parrots swearing. They’ve been swearing at visitors for a long time. It’s probably very amusing but it may upset some paying customers. And it’s catching. If some parrots swear some other parrots copy it parrot-fashion and so it spreads. P.S. Yes, this is not about cats. I …
The world knows that Australia has a domestic cat problem! That problem is that some of them become feral cats and the feral cat is the archenemy of the Australian state because they kill native species. There is a big push in Australia to keep cats indoors full-time to protect the said native species. …
My understanding of this study (see base of page) is that there are four reasons why Australian cat owners keep their cats inside their home. And there are five different ways of owning a cat in terms of containing them inside the home or allowing them outside. Australians have the highest domestic cat containment …
