$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...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...
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...
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...
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