For the Love of Cats, Rats, and Birds
A situation that calls for circumspection, rather than cavalierness, and human ingenuity rather than human violence.
A situation that calls for circumspection, rather than cavalierness, and human ingenuity rather than human violence.
PETA is rounding up healthy community cats and kittens and taking them to the police-run pound to be killed.
The AVMA revises its policy on “Free-Roaming Abandoned and Feral Cats.”
Agency proposes combination of “non-lethal and lethal control measures” to rid D.C. of cats, geese, and deer.
Cats who are gently petted and talked to by humans have a markedly lower chance of getting an upper respiratory infection.
Yesterday, I reported how PETA is trying to kill pit bulls in shelters across the country. Now they are trying to ensure that “feral” cats continue to be killed in New York.
Washington, D.C. is not only considering a plan to round up and kill thousands of cats, but it is proposing a wholesale slaughter of geese and other animals, as well as trees and plants. On September 18, a City Council committee will take the issue up and my letter, written on behalf of the No Kill Advocacy Center, opposing the plan is here.
A new computer modeling study adds to an already significant body of literature showing that neuter and release of community cats is effective.
And they didn’t get trapped, neutered, or released.