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Non-roaming cats need exercise
Cats need exercise. If you decide not to let your cats roam (yay!) there are a couple of approaches you could take: Build a home gym for your cats (as in the video above - which is actually pretty funny) Let your cats roam in their own backyard - with an Oscillot...
Housing development bans cats
Cat owners are not allowed to buy a home in parts of the new Kotuku Parks subdivision on the Kapiti Coast. While local authorities in other places have limited cat ownership, imposed cat curfews or required that cats not be allowed to roam - chiefly to protect native...
Australian group kills roaming cats
Sometimes it seems the world has gone mad. In Australia, a group calling itself Cat Busters is warning that it will kill roaming cats - and they've posted several photos of dead cats just in case anyone thinks they're joking. More than 100 people have liked their...
Roaming cat shot with nailgun
This is horrible and depraved, and I do hesitate to share it - but we have to be honest and admit there are some sick people out there - and roaming cats are easy victims for them. In Hamilton, a roaming cat was shot between the eyes with a nail gun but - miraculously...
50 cats disappear in Timaru
UPDATE: Here's video from the Checkpoint programme on National Radio, 12 July 2016: Ashleigh Hicks' cat Moses has been missing since the end of January. After posting his disappearance on Facebook, Ms Hicks found that up to 50 cats have disappeared in Timaru in the...
The roaming kitten and the fish hook
Thank you to the Kitten Inn, a charitable trust in Wellington, for rescuing a wee kitten who had a fish hook caught in its mouth last weekend. And to the Khandallah Vet Hospital for removing the hook and treating the little fellow. There are photos on the Kitten Inn...
How dangerous is it for a cat to roam?
Most cat owners are surprised to learn how far their free-range cat will actually travel, and the dangers they will encounter along the way. Fortunately, we have some insight into both of these questions, thanks to research conducted in 2014 by Mya Gaby of Victoria...
Appleby considers roaming cat rules
About a dozen cats have been tracked with GPS collars and cameras as part of a 3-month research project in the Appleby area of Tasman District. Researchers were looking into the impact of cats on wildlife around the Waimea Estuary. One of the researchers, Dr Heidy...
Kitten loses leg to suspected illegal trap
And here we go again: a roaming kitten loses its leg apparently because of a hostile neighbour's illegal leg-hold trap. From today's Taranaki Daily News: A kitten believed to have been caught in a gin trap crawled home and left a pool of blood outside its two-year-old...