December 1, 2013Comments are closed.cats
Encouraging malevolence and a lack of compassion towards animals in Australia’s young people, is a new game developed by Feral cat hunter Tony Munnings and students from the University of Tasmania. ‘Feral Cat Hunter’ is “aimed at six to seven year-olds” and sees players track cats down, centre them in a gun sight and kill […]
Continue readingNovember 20, 2013Comments are closed.cats, Getting 2 Zero
Cat laws were big on the agenda of the Getting 2 Zero (G2Z) conference in September. I have already blogged the details of the presentation from the RSPCA ‘Dispelling the myth that mandatory desexing doesn’t help with cat overpopulation’ (which was strong on rhetoric, but light on evidence, and whose only case study for ‘success’ was […]
Continue readingOctober 28, 2013Comments are closed.cats
A volunteer cat trapper in Geelong In accordance with Section 68A of the Domestic Animals Act 1994, every Council in Victoria must prepare a Domestic Animal Management Plan (DAM Plan). This plan must be updated every four years. The Greater Geelong City Council have just released their plan for 2013-2017 and, when it comes to […]
Continue readingOctober 25, 2013Comments are closed.cats, TAS Cat Laws
When groups come out with outrageous claims about cat populations, they will usually remain unchallenged. Partly because there seems to be a pervasive belief that the ends (generally cat laws or some other restriction on ownership), justifies the means (overwhelming exaggeration and fundamental errors and inflations in cat population estimates). Or simply that the data […]
Continue readingOctober 20, 2013Comments are closed.cats, RSPCA
Image: Stella It’s no coincidence that every time the RSPCA condemn cats across the major media… RSPCA President Lynne Bradshaw says the community needs to consider the harm cats can wreak on native wildlife. (WA, October 16th) There is an almost instant response of cat abuse… “Stella, an 18-month-old cat had her leg amputated after […]
Continue readingOctober 18, 2013Comments are closed.cats
“How shelters treat feral cats is indicative of their commitment to lifesaving. When an animal shelter isn’t fighting to protect these cats from harm, it reflects a fundamental mission failure.” ~ Yes Biscuit WA Cat Laws Seems the PR machine for the new WA cat laws has given up on the notion this is about […]
Continue readingOctober 9, 2013Comments are closed.cats
The cat management policies of New Zealand’s SPCA have received international backing, with visiting American animal law expert William Gomaa, Associate Director of Law and Policy at Alley Cat Allies, supporting the approach at the NZ Companion Animal Council conference in Auckland last week. Under their ‘Saving Lives’ campaign, the SPCA NZ have stopped killing […]
Continue readingOctober 7, 2013Comments are closed.cats
Compulsory desexing campaigners aren’t put off by a little bit of failure, no sir-ee. They’re not happy until they’ve failed expansively, expensively and completely. And no matter at what cost to pets… What could nearly $2 million dollars do for cat welfare in a single city? Advocates often gloss over the true cost of their […]
Continue readingOctober 4, 2013Comments are closed.cats
When a supermarket magazine takes a more compassionate & scientific position than the major animal ‘welfare’ group in our country, then you know we’re no longer leaders in compassionate animal care, but simply being left in the dust by the rest of the world. …. “(Catch and kill) is not only an unpleasant way of […]
Continue readingSeptember 24, 2013Comments are closed.cats, council pound
In 2009, under pressure from animal welfare groups, the QLD state government compelled local councils to introduce state-wide compulsory registration for cats. South-east Queensland councils were required to rollout the laws from July 1, while local governments in the rest of Queensland were given until December 2010 to introduce their registration systems. The new laws […]
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