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...
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...
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...
by Neil Sanderson | May 18, 2016 | Cat Roaming, Cat Safety, Wildlife Protection
Reported today by the ABC in Australia: Cat owners are more concerned about the welfare of their pet than the risk they pose to wildlife when roaming freely, an international study has found. Murdoch University researchers in Perth surveyed more than 1,700 cat owners...
by Neil Sanderson | Jan 15, 2016 | Cat Roaming, Diseases
Yolanda van Heezik, a senior lecturer in zoology at Otago University, has been studying the impact of cats on wildlife. She’s found that there are about 220 pet cats per square kilometre in Dunedin (the number of stray/feral cats is unknown) and that cats kill...
