ACA last night ran a special on a neighbourhood of ‘missing cats’. There’s obviously someone in the area with a trap and upset owners have lost a dozen or more pets. While the story focuses on one street in Perth, they claim it is happening Australia wide.
In a related story, Victorian cat groups are facing growing anti-cat sentiment, in the ‘Who’s for Cats?’ state:
Greensborough Cat Protection Society director Dr Carole Webb said cats were often the target of cruelty but such extreme acts were rare.
“People either love cats or they hate them – if they hate them they almost think they have a right to do whatever they want,” she said.
“Cruelty like this is abhorrent, I think people who can do those sorts of things are psychologically disturbed.”
RSPCA spokesman Tim Pilgrim said the society investigated more than 1500 cases of cruelty to cats in Victoria last year, ranging from mistreatment to torture.
“Some of the most horrific cases the inspectorate dealt with last year were to do with cats,” Mr Pilgrim said.
What I can’t work out, is why any one is surprised. With cat protection groups around the country telling people an outdoors cat is diseased, fighting and killing wildlife, and every Council in Australia looking at some kind of cat curfew and giving out traps by the hundreds, did we really think unowned cats were going to be the only ones targeted by empowered, cat hating crazies?
Rockhampton cats to be registered
Rockhampton in Queensland unveils plans for a mandatory cat registration scheme, beginning 1st September, but they’re already rubbishing their community, with officers expecting that thousands of cat owners will fail to register despite the legislation. The adversarial approach of painting the community ‘irresponsible’ before you even begin, is certainly alive and well. Rest assured there are more laws to follow.
All hail the cat
And if this doesn’t show you cats are the future leaders of the world, I don’t know what does…
