Auckland cat loses leg to gin trip
We hate having to repost stories like this, but if you let your cat roam, you need to be aware that there are some very vicious people out there.
$100 fine for roaming cats
I was reading a story online about a roaming cat that got its paw stuck in a leg-hold trap set by a neighbour. This case was in the Canadian city of Regina – although we’ve certainly had similar occurrences here in New Zealand recently. Something else that caught my attention, however, was that Regina has
Another cat trapped by vicious neighbour
Barely a month after hearing about a Palmerston North man convicted of catching his neighbour’s cat in a leg-hold trap, we have this from today’s Hawke’s Bay Today: …cats get a bad rap, despite the fact they don’t bark incessantly and lay waste anywhere they like. They do wander, and it is clear there are
Roaming cat caught in neighbour’s leg-hold trap
Unfortunately, we cannot assume that all humans are decent and compassionate towards animals – including our pets. This is from today’s New Zealand Herald: A man captured a neighbour’s pet cat in a leg-hold trap to prevent it from hunting birds on his property. Paul Parsons was convicted on a charge of using a prohibited