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Auckland cat loses leg to gin trip

Auckland cat loses leg to gin trip

by Neil Sanderson | Oct 9, 2017 | Cat Safety, Hostile Neighbours, Leg-Hold Traps

We hate having to repost stories like this, but cat owners need to know that there are some very vicious people out there. This story is not as unusual as we might like to think. People use illegal gin traps to maim or kill roaming kittens, even in an upmarket suburb...
$100 fine for roaming cats

$100 fine for roaming cats

by Neil Sanderson | Jul 29, 2016 | Cat Restrictions, Cat Safety, Hostile Neighbours, Leg-Hold Traps

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...

Kitten loses leg to suspected illegal trap

by Neil Sanderson | Jul 8, 2016 | Cat Safety, Hostile Neighbours, Leg-Hold Traps

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...
Another cat trapped by vicious neighbour

Another cat trapped by vicious neighbour

by Neil Sanderson | Jun 4, 2016 | Cat Safety, Hostile Neighbours, Leg-Hold Traps

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...
Roaming cat caught in neighbour’s leg-hold trap

Roaming cat caught in neighbour’s leg-hold trap

by Neil Sanderson | May 20, 2016 | Cat Safety, Hostile Neighbours, Leg-Hold Traps

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...

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