February 5, 2015Comments are closed.cats
The cat rescue pyramid… (click to enlarge)
Continue readingFebruary 2, 2015Comments are closed.cats
On this day back in 2012 a lovely young cat showed up at my place. He was as ‘feral’ as any cat could be; huge, thuggy, but sweet. My guess would be he’d never spent any meaningful time with people. He was smart. Smart enough to find me. Smart enough to trust me. But […]
Continue readingJanuary 2, 2015Comments are closed.cats
Let’s say your city has a ‘cat problem’. These guys live alongside humans, eating our garbage, vermin and generally doing what cats do. Some of these cats will be pets. The majority will be unowned, free roaming and stray cats – that is, no one person has taken ownership. Despite claims cats can reproduce […]
Continue readingDecember 29, 2014Comments are closed.cats, WA Cat Laws
The major problem with telling everyone that they should bring all free-roaming cat into a shelter for ‘processing’ is that they might just do exactly that. And the result is not terribly difficult to imagine. A little over a year ago, cat and welfare groups in the state of WA celebrated as their much […]
Continue readingNovember 14, 2014Comments are closed.cats
Back in 2012, I wrote about a seizure case of 100 cats (and 35 ‘other’ animals) at the RSPCA WA, and how it seemed before the animals had even made it back to the shelter, that the organisation was in the media claiming they would have ‘no choice’ but to kill. (They did however take the […]
Continue readingNovember 1, 2014Comments are closed.cats
Cat ‘welfare’ groups in WA have just spent the last five years declaring that cats are an unspeakable, unmanaged pest decimating wildlife, in an effort to get their cat laws passed. It was inevitable that the constant cat-bashing from those who claim to be an authority, would lead to empowered cat haters targeting pets. And […]
Continue readingOctober 31, 2014Comments are closed.cats, RSPCA
The ABC is still going on about cats. Except the claims are getting broader, less accurate and more fanciful with every article. From ‘Calls for Australian cats to be kept indoors’; “With feral cats killing as many as 75 million Australian creatures every day…” This ’75 million Australian creatures’ quote seemed to first come […]
Continue readingOctober 25, 2014Comments are closed.cats, council pound, RSPCA
Sometimes blogging is an absolute joy – pulling stats, meaty scientific papers and good-news stories and compiling them all together to make positive change, communicating on a subject you’re passionate about. Other times, it’s purging annoyance because many things have got on your tits all at once and you just have to get it out. That […]
Continue readingOctober 18, 2014Comments are closed.cats, council pound
Renbury pound kills about one in every two cats that enter their facility. They accomplish over 2,000 dead cats a year. The only thing that keeps them from sustaining a near 100% kill rate, is a dedicated group of rescuers taking (around 30% of) the cats they want to kill, and instead placing them in […]
Continue readingOctober 17, 2014Comments are closed.cats, RSPCA
Nothing will stop the RSPCA for lobbying for 24hr cat containment. No matter how ineffective the laws are at controlling unowned animals. No matter how many cats have to be killed in the process… TAMMY VEN DANGE, RSPCA ACT: We still have a lot of feral cats out there in places that are cat […]
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