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I am so sick of the feralcat colonies that infest so many locations that I like to bird. And while I am sick of the cat colonies I am even more sick of the deluded people who believe that by feeding feralcats they are somehow helping them. Outdoor cats live short, ugly, violent lives. No, really.
The other day, Minneapolis, Minnesota passed a feralcat ordinance. So I put together a “carnival” (of sorts) of FeralCat Ordinances and Issues that samples current events across the US. From the Star Tribune : Feralcats win a round at Minneapolis City Hall. Does it solve it? No,” he said.
Be careful if you cross the feralcat freaks – they might protest your business, sue you, and drive you to suicide. Such was the sad fate of a New York City veterinarian who refused to release a stray cat she treated back to a feralcat freak who planned to release the cat back into a feralcat colony.
Dear Outdoor Cat Owners/FeralCat Supporters, Does the photo above sicken you? I’m allergic to cats, but in my lifetime I’ve rescued five of them. The last one, who took up residence under my house on a frigid January afternoon, is now a friend’s happy, healthy indoor cat. Is it the fault of the cats?
What can be done to solve the intractable problem of wildlife and feralcats? Peter, who lives in New York State, noticed two feralcats living near his house. Peter, who loves cats, has saved two of them from the normally short and brutal life of a feralcat. Ask Peter Paonessa.
This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. Thanks to groups like Alley Cat Allies, outdoor and feralcats have become above the law. Neighbor B has nine outdoor cats. Neighbor A asks neighbor B to contain his cats.
Just as the ranger was telling us that we might see wild cats – well, not wild cats, but rather, Wildcats , the wild version of the domestic cat, Felis silvestris lybica , one of those cats popped its head out of the brush about 50 feet beyond her. The most interesting thing about this cat was lack of kitty-cat-ness.
The National Park Service is finally going to remove the feralcat colony from Plumb Beach, part of the Gateway National Recreation Area. As is only to be expected, the cat crazies are out in force trying to stop this wholly rational and logical action. … Conservation Brooklyn cats Plum Beach'
Much has been made in these pages about the havoc that feralcats wreak on native birds. Maybe Daleks could be trained to focus on feralcats?). A kindhearted SPCA worker took Frankie off the streets (or, rather, out of the carpark) and helped him adjust to more traditional cat food.
Mark Gamin, a Cleveland lawyer, likes cats and birds both. He likes books too, which made him the ideal reviewer for Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer. Marra and Chris Santella, authors of Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer (Princeton University Press, 212 pp.,
He wrote a column , not for Audubon, but for the Orlando Sentinal , in which he advocated the killing of feralcats instead of the use of trap-neuter-release. It has also apparently been edited by the newspaper since it was originally published to make it more palatable for the crazy cat people.).
The American Bird Conservancy announced a new study that feralcats prey on the endangered Hawaiian Petrel. Conservation American Bird Conservancy cats Hawaii petrels' At the risk of sounding insensitive, duh. That would be news.
As anyone who follows this blog knows, outdoor cats are a veritable holocaust for wild birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and even insects. Almost every single outdoor pet cat, feralcat, or stray kills other animals , no matter how well fed the cat is through other sources.
We here at 10,000 Birds are firmly on the side of those who want to keep cats indoors. The American Bird Conservancy has been at the forefront of that fight and they have written a letter to the mayors of the fifty largest cities in the United States asking them to help stop the rising tide of feralcats.
On 14 March, 2013, the Orlando Sentinel published an opinion piece by Ted Williams under the headline “Trap, neuter, return programs make feral-cat problem worse.” Then he gave a couple of alternative solutions to the feralcat problem: There are two effective, humane alternatives to the cat hell of TNR.
Cory Williams, of the famed "Mean Kitty" YouTube videos (which are really funny), has a good how-to video about doing a trap, spay/neuter, and release of feralcats in your neighborhood. The video was done on behalf of the Stray Cat Alliance. Tags: feralcats.
Quantico Military Base is really behaving cruelly when it comes to the feralcats on its base. We do not support or promote feral animals on the base,” flatly stated Bruce Frizzell, head of the Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs office. Feralcats may be an animal problem, but there is a human solution.
So here is a nice story and video about a HSUS rescue of a California feral colony. Tags: HSUS california animal rescue feralcats. Haven't been into deep posts at all. It makes me want to get back into animal rescue, which is where my animal rights activism started.
After careful consideration of all of the enlightened arguments that have been made by those in favor of Trap-Neuter-Return for feralcats in recent blog posts , we here at 10,000 Birds have been completely convinced by their well-thought-out, logical, and airtight conclusions.
Apparently Alley Cat Allies only wants to protect feralcats, an introduced predator that decimates native wildlife communities. And should a group dare question the wisdom of domestic cats being outdoors they are “extremists” in the eyes of the crazy cat people.
Recent studies highlighted by the American Bird Conservancy show that cats make up a significant portion of the diet of Coyotes. Want your cat to survive? In related news, Universal Orlando’s Loews Hotel should be lauded for deciding to take action to remove a feralcat colony from the hotel’s grounds.
Years ago, I became a wildlife volunteer and advocate because of a cat who caught a bird. Now, he lay frightened and ruffled in my hands, his tail tattered, his feathers damp from the maw of a cat named Puck. Back then, I didn’t know enough about birds, but I knew a lot about cats. I scrambled for a box.
Shorter Steve Dale : Hey, birders, agree with me that feralcats should be left in the wild where they will kill birds. Oh, and could you volunteer to help maintain feralcat colonies? Trap-Neuter-Release is a failure and leads to misery for cats and death for birds and other wild creatures. See, we can get along!
Smithsonian Institute researcher is accused of trying to poison street cats outside her apartment building on 15th Street in Northwest. Dauphine works at the National Zoo studying wild birds, where her research has focused on one of birds’ enemies: cats. Here’s hoping that Dauphine has her name cleared.
Your support went as viral as the emails from Alley Cat Allies. Now if we can just get the National Audubon Society to start putting some money where their mouth is on the feral / outdoor cat issue… UPDATE – To the cat crazies I have one thing to say. I was touched and humbled. Thanks so much my friends.
From the American Bird Conservancy : The mayor of Albuquerque and the director of the city’s animal welfare department have been named in a lawsuit alleging that the officials have committed animal cruelty by allowing certain illegal and improper animal management practices to occur related to abandonment of stray cats. They do great work!
Here’s hoping that Charles County, Maryland, stands up to the feralcat mafia and moves ahead with plans to require cats be licensed and special “animal fancier” licenses be required for those who harbor ten or more cats on their property.
How many birds to cats kill in the United States? A recent meta study ( The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States ) that applied strict inclusion criteria and some fancy statistics estimates that 2.4 billion birds, plus or minus more than a billion, are killed by cats every year in the US.
Thanks to Alley Cat Allies , one of my favorite groups, for posting this web page with financial resources for people struggling to care for pets or feralcat colonies. Tags: spay/neuter cats animal rescue feralcats. These guys are just awesome.
In the UK, so figures indicate , 10 million domestic cats account for 275 million prey items, of which 55 million are birds. In Australia where the endemic prey population has evolved without cats, the problem has reached the stage where drastic measures have been imposed. Cats rely on stealth to ambush their prey.
Dynamic duo Janel Parrish (Pretty Little Liars) and Brendan Robinson (Pretty Little Liars) walk the red carpet at Kitty Bungalow’s CATS for Cats benefit concert at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. The stars turned out for the 2nd annual CATS for Cats charity event on Saturday, July 14, 2012 at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.
We've been supporters of Alley Cat Allies for years, ever since we rescued a feralcat colony living in our apartment building's parking lot 14 years ago (5 of those clowns are aging nicely with us with us now.including Charlotte who's on the masthead). Tags: activism feralcats donations advocacy nonprofits.
Last summer, Alley Cat Allies conducted an analysis of Illinois Department of Agriculture reports collected from the 247 animal pounds and shelters licensed by the state that handled cats in 2006. More than 60,000 cats were killed in Illinois animal pounds and shelters in 2006. Tags: feralcats.
And third, related to next week’s post, there is an interesting project being started in North Carolina in which little monitoring devices are being attached to cats to see what they do when running around wild. Unfortunately these are house cats, not feral, that live outdoors (for some reason). And daily feces analysis.
For some reason, a cat kept showing up at night. So, Ellen put out food and water for the cat. If this is a truly feralcat, I think the best thing to do would be to trap her and give her a good home. Ellen Degeneres has a 24 hour webcam on her set. You can see the footage here. Very strange.
We have observed Pied Oystercatcher parents chase of White-bellied Sea-Eagles and unfortunately there are feralcats and feral foxes have become more prevalent too. There are numerous species of raptors around Broome including Black Kites and Whistling Kites.
Feral Muscovy Ducks seem to attract many of those epithets. Not only are the individual ducks hard to look at, but in groups, the feral populations create the same messes other masses of waterfowl do. Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Thanks for visiting!
It somehow seems unfair that a bird that that has lived through innumerable dangers from when it was born, through its first migration south, a full winter, another migration to the north, breeding season, and another trip south could meet its end in the mouth of a cat. dead Common Yellowthroat Please, keep your cats indoors.
A pet cat raising orphaned ducklings! That is, until the ducklings grow up, are released into a pond, and greet the local feralcat colony as long-lost relatives. An orphaned fawn who is best friends with the family’s German Shepherd! How cute!
Part of the threat to the birds’ existence has been ravaging by feralcats , which eat both adults and chicks alike. That means about 600 acres will hopefully become cat-free, leaving the birds to breed and live in peace.
One massively negative aspect of birding Tybee Island is the sheer volume of feralcats and outdoor cats. It is clear that the trap-neuter-release efforts are doomed to failure, as they always are, and I saw three obviously pregnant cats in my short time there. They are everywhere! It didn’t get any.
A couple of cats hiss at him and he freaks out, gets out a gun and shoots them? Grasso finally got his day in court Monday, testifying that he shot and killed three cats last June only after they had hissed and spat at him from the basement of a Lackawanna apartment complex. “I I've captured a number of feralcats.
She sorts out the taxonomic tangles for laypeople in some of the most well-turned popular science writing I’ve had the pleasure to read, and then moves on to discuss the sparrow as symbol in folklore and literature, the great Sparrow Wars following the introduction of the House Sparrow to the US (a series of escapades that produced some publications (..)
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