October 15, 2014Comments are closed.cats
As a regular reader of this blog, I know you’re an animal nerd and probably on all of the same pet-news alerts as myself. So you no doubt will have seen the recent barrage of pro-native, anti-cat sentiment being pushed by the major media over the last few months. It almost seems inarguable – cats […]
Continue readingOctober 5, 2014Comments are closed.cats, WA Cat Laws
Remember back when WA rescue groups were lobbying for cat laws and they said the laws would mean we no longer had a cat problem because all the cats would be desexed and so, no kittens? Cat laws were the answer, remember? So we got the laws. We’ve had them now for 11 months. Last year’s […]
Continue readingSeptember 8, 2014Comments are closed.cats, RSPCA
In Mackay (QLD), a group of community cats live behind some shops; The owner and staff at Divas Den, and workers at a nearby business have been feeding the cats for many months but with another blossoming cat expecting a new litter, say the situation cannot continue. “They are only going to keep on multiplying,” […]
Continue readingSeptember 2, 2014Comments are closed.cats
Last month I wrote about Monash Council’s plans to pass mandatory desexing laws (even though by the City’s own numbers, 98% of the owned cat population in the city is already desexed), and a ban on the feeding of strays. Now, if you or I were to have a cat, and we were to […]
Continue readingAugust 30, 2014Comments are closed.cats, WA Cat Laws
The WA Cat Act is the jewel in the ‘mandatory desexing’ zealot’s crown. As legislation it included everything that a cat-law advocate could have dreamed of; – it was enacted state-wide and every council was required to make provisions for it; to include it in their operations and to resource the enforcement of it. […]
Continue readingAugust 29, 2014Comments are closed.cats, council pound
At the end of last year, Whyalla Council (SA) used its local media to malign cats, with Ranger Services declaring the City had a “cat problem”. Cats in the city were to be considered a “class one pest”, and that anyone showing cats compassion by giving them a little bit of food were informed that they were breaking the law. In […]
Continue readingAugust 16, 2014Comments are closed.cats, council pound
Monash City Council (Victoria) has 5,461 registered cats, 98% of which are de-sexed despite it currently not being a requirement in the City*. They are currently reviewing amongst other things, mandatory desexing. Because cat owners = irresponsible. Don’t be fooled by the figures which show practically all of them are doing the right thing and […]
Continue readingMay 12, 2014Comments are closed.cats, SA Cat Laws
What if council was using the registration fees you are paying as responsible cat lover, to collect and kill other, less fortunate cats? Guess what? They probably are… The City of Whyalla is about to start targeting cats. And they’re going to use the registration fees from cat lovers in the community to do […]
Continue readingMay 9, 2014Comments are closed.cats, council pound, dogs, RSPCA
Councillor Mike Hudson from Unley Council (SA) is pushing for mandatory cat registration and two-cat per household limits to be introduced in the city, to bring the district into line with its neighbour Mitcham. Now, Mitcham Council is a ‘funny’ demonstration of success. For starters, their Cat Management Officer didn’t know their impound stats […]
Continue readingMay 2, 2014Comments are closed.cats, WA Cat Laws
The picture above is the impounds (unclaimed/unidentified) for a single WA pound. It doesn’t take a genius to see that before these cats were impounded and brought into the pound under the directive of these new laws – and their lives were being threatened with ‘euthanasia’ because ‘overpopulation’ – that they were living with someone […]
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