UK: High Wycombe Feral Cat Colonies
View Larger Map With the “kitten season” comes the prospect of unwanted cats, which are then dumped. This inevitably leads to stray and, in this case, feral cat colonies in the High Wycombe area, which...
View ArticleDon’t feed feral cats say the RSPCA
Joan Johnson from the South Bucks branch of the RSPCA, “the leading UK animal welfare charity”, says we should not feed feral cats despite the temptation to help. How, then are people who care about...
View ArticleFeral Cat Control: TVHR Better than TNR
TVHR is more effective than TNR, a study concludes. This is an interesting study that looks at a modified version of Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) to make it more effective. The good thing is that the study...
View ArticleTNR of feral cats makes us feel good
TNR of feral cats makes us feel good but we are not doing the best for the cat. It is better to euthanise them. …unless these cats [feral cats] can be socialized and until we get the problem of pet …...
View ArticleCat haters loathe decent women who feed community cats
There is a simmering undercurrent of loathing by cat haters directed at decent ladies who tenderly feed feral and community cats. It erupts into pure hate-filled violence from time to time. This is an...
View ArticleDifference between stray and feral cat can be blurred
The difference between stray and feral cats is important because stray cats have or had a human companion and should be reunited with that person provided, of course, the cat wants to be reunited and...
View ArticleFeral Cat Protection
By Dee This is from the heart and not the brain… Introduction from Michael: I asked Dee to tell people how she helps to protect feral cats when they are being fed and TNR’d. I asked because we know...
View ArticleFeral Cat “Marvin” Becomes a Domestic Cat
By Dorothy Wandruff (DW) Marvin, has been officially living with me for over a year now. It is his choice, of course. He spent the first ten years of his life as a colony cat turned TNR cat. He made …...
View ArticlePoor TNR (trap-neuter-return) is worse than no TNR
So, poor TNR is worse than no TNR. Right? Put it another way – as a Catster writer effectively did – euthanasia of stray and feral cats is better than feeding them and people who feed stray and feral...
View ArticleShould Trap-Neuter-Release Include Regular Feeding of Feral Cats?
To people who don’t like feral cats or who are ambivalent about them, one of the objections to the trap-neuter-release program (TNR) is that the people who run these programs often feed feral cats on a...
View ArticleUS company wants to fund the neutering of domestic cats
In the USA, Brightsource, a solar thermal technology company involved in the high profile $2.2 billion Ivanpah plant in the Mojave desert in California proposes paying $1.8 million towards programs...
View ArticleTina Briggs rescues and rehomes 15 feral kittens and cats
Black Earth, WI, USA: with the help of colleagues Dan and Judy, Tina Briggs saved, restored to health, spayed, neutered and re-homed, fifteen feral kittens and cats who were living in the local,...
View ArticleComplaints about stray cats prompts West Orange, NJ to ban feeding them
West Orange Township, New Jersey has passed a ban on the feeding of stray and feral cats. Residents and visitors to this New Jersey community are now banned from feeding wildlife warning: “No person...
View ArticleNational Feral Cat Day: October 16, 2014
Feral cats or community cats; they belong to all of us, so says Jackson Galaxy and his correct. Those of us who know cats would totally agree with Jackson. In some countries most cats are community...
View ArticleIndiana: domestic cat confinement by the backdoor
A kindly woman in Indiana, Karen McClintock was going to a restaurant in Fort Wayne when she spotted a cat outside. The cute, and very friendly cat, came up to her, establishing right away that she was...
View ArticleNew York state about to formally fund TNR programs under new law
New York State’s legislators have been debating two pieces of draft legislation (bills) that will be a huge step in formally legitimising the trap-neuter-return (TNR) process of managing feral cat...
View ArticleFree-living Cat Ear-tipping Infographic!
This is a nice infographic on free-living cats who have been ear-tipped (or notched) under a TNR program. I like it and it is the first time I have seen one of these. All cat lovers know what...
View ArticleEx-firefighter Fed Feral Cats and Was Charged by the Police
Michael Marra, 59, an ex-firefighter, and Bloomfield resident, fed and cared for a colony of around 90 feral cats living at the extensive Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford. He had done this...
View ArticleNew York Governor Cuomo Vetoes State Funding of TNR Programs
The law had been debated and agreed (A 2778/S 1081). It only required the signature of Governor Cuomo for this bill to become law which would formalize trap-neuter-return programs (TNR) in New York...
View ArticleIn Germany Un-neutered Tomcats Will No Longer be Allowed to Roam Free
The agriculture minister of Germany, Christian Schmidt, has declared that male cats who have not been neutered will not be allowed to leave the family home and roam free. What about unspayed females? I...
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