September 5, 2013Comments are closed.cats, WA Cat Laws
We’re just two months away from the full implementation of the WA Cat Act, which will be rolled out across the state from 1st November 2013. The law will require cats six months and older to be desexed, microchipped, wear a collar and registration tag, and to be registered with the local council they are […]
Continue readingAugust 24, 2013Comments are closed.cats
Nature’s interconnectedness means demonizing a single species in an effort to return the environment to a pre-human inhabited state – without removing the humans – is not only cruel, but counter productive to efforts to protect wildlife… “The study (Island mammal extinctions are determined by interactive effects of life history, island biogeography and mesopredator suppression […]
Continue readingAugust 18, 2013Comments are closed.cats
What kind of animal welfare system are we building for our second most favourite pet, when the major self-proclaimed ‘protector’ groups continue to promote and support a culture of abuse, disrespect and killing? This is an ad to ask people identify their pet cats. Assumedly, so shelters don’t kill them. There’s something terribly wrong with […]
Continue readingAugust 5, 2013Comments are closed.cats
A new show playing on the ABC ‘Vet School’ is set in Perth and last night featured a vet student’s experience of working in a shelter – the Cat Haven. Now if you were a shelter about to have cameras visit, to film for a national – and maybe even an international – audience what […]
Continue readingJuly 12, 2013Comments are closed.cats, Getting 2 Zero
Dispelling the myth that mandatory desexing doesn’t help with overpopulation – Dr Mandy Paterson (RSPCA Qld) Cat Haven – ‘Our lobbying government helped us get the the new cat laws in WA passed, mandatory desexing and microchipping’ ACAC stats about companion animal regard – we love our pets! Benefits of companion animals Cat overpopulation What […]
Continue readingJuly 3, 2013Comments are closed.cats
I have never seen a presentation as important for animal welfare as this one ‘Radically Rethinking our Response to Cats’. If you’re working to overhaul animal management in your community, then this is a must-watch – and I don’t say that lightly. It pulls everything we know about cats and cat populations into sharp focus, […]
Continue readingJune 28, 2013Comments are closed.cats
This article was first published in May 27, 2010. I have added a section at the end, to update the post. Bendigo was one of the first Victorian councils to introduce cat management laws. In the 2002/03 period the council impounded 534 cats, killing 338 of them. In 2004, they introduced a cat curfew, using […]
Continue readingJune 28, 2013Comments are closed.cats
More than 53% of us (that’s over 12 million) share our homes, lives and often our beds, with a dog or cat, or both. We consider them members of our families and spend more than $4.62 billion every year caring for them. Given this groundswell of love for animals, there is enormous potential to tap […]
Continue readingJune 14, 2013Comments are closed.cats, WA Cat Laws
WA cat trappers are standing by, ready to help government with their cat management programs from November 1. ‘Must trap feral cats’ Local government areas should implement a trapping strategy if feral cats become a problem in the area according to a former feral animal controller, who wished no tho be named, in response to […]
Continue readingJune 9, 2013Comments are closed.cats
Cat owners are often blamed for unowned cats roaming in the neighbourhood. The thinking goes – if cat owners would just keep their cats confined/desexed, there wouldn’t be all these cats out there in the ‘wild’ and shelters wouldn’t have to kill. The theory cat owners ‘are to blame’ is the basis for many cat […]
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