cats

Dr Chris, Bondi Vet gave an interview last night on The 7PM Project about those regressive Melbourne cat curfews. His take on it all was quite excellent, pointing out that while we all want to see cats protected and their welfare improved, using the threat of fines and ‘a big stick’ is heavy handed and […]

Bayside Council in Victoria are continuing their march towards a new year cat-curfew to compliment their compulsory desexing and registration scheme. Bayside Council co-ordinator of local laws and investigations Ken Waxell said a 12-person working body had reviewed the new laws, which also dictate the mandatory desexing of kittens. A cat protection officer hired to […]

Take one long term cat colony, add a compassionate community already feeding and removing adoptables and you have a suburb ripe for a TNR program. Unfortunately Parramatta Council is unable to see any other option, but to have the cats removed; Cats have been seen around Parramatta Town Hall but the biggest problem seems to […]

I was asked recently to explain TNR to someone who was interested but had never heard of the term. It’s always interesting to have to take the 10,000 word essay you could write on a topic and try and condense it into a short few paragraphs, elevator pitch style. This is my effort trying to […]

It’s a shame that animal welfare groups can’t stop walking blindly into the same old mistakes again and again. Once more with feeling; compulsory registration (and desexing and microchipping) is too expensive to actually enforce and only serves to enrage and empower cat haters into anti-cat behaviour. Spike in traps after cat registration Demand for […]

When you have the situation that impounded cats are nearly always killed, it makes little sense to bring about legislation which increases the number of them impounded. However, for the spittle-spewing, compulsory registration/microchipping/desexing brigade, owner-targeted legislation was never about bringing down shelter kill rates. If it were they would be heeding the ever-growing international evidence […]

The killing of six cats by Mildura Council using a firearm, when they had an available vet to administer lethal injections, has caused cat-lover outrage both nationally and internationally. However, the council remains unrepentant. Mayor Glenn Milne released a statement saying the officer acted lawfully. ”Whilst destruction of animals via gunshot is not normally the […]

When the Queensland Goverment’s feral pest researchers studied feral cats and… …as part of the research some feral cats were collected and their stomach contents examined. They found; “One cat had 25 undigested mice – all killed and eaten on the one night. “At the time there was an abundance of mice in the area […]