The Domestic Cat: Bird Killer, Mouser and Destroyer of Wild Life; Means of Utilizing and Controlling It by Edward Howe Forbush Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, 1916. [Free 112-page download from <http://books.google.com/books>.] Reviewed by Merritt Clifton The 1916 tract The Domestic Cat: Bird Killer, Mouser & Destroyer of Wild Life; Means of […]
“Community cats” vs. community health: Part 4 of What to call cats & why it matters
Changing names does not change issues Part 4 of a four-part series. See also: What to call cats, & why it matters: evolving terms; “Vagrant” or “feral” cats; and Feral cats & street dogs. “Community” cats In October 2009 the Best Friends Animal Society marked National Feral Cat Day by announcing a campaign to rename yet again the […]
Should all feral cats go to heaven? Or hell?
Purges pursued with religious fervor (See also What to call cats, & why their name matters.) WORCESTER, Massachusetts––Named Australia’s first “threatened species commissioner” in July 2014, Gregory Andrews in July 2015, a year later, announced a five-year plan to exterminate feral cats. “Australian Environment Minister Greg Hunt “is declaring war on feral cats, and he’s asked […]
HSUS cat herder Nancy Peterson announces retirement
The first HSUS cat program manager “The time has come,” Humane Society of the U.S. cat program manager Nancy Peterson announced in a July 6, 2015 e-mail to friends, colleagues, and ANIMALS 24-7. “I will be retiring on July 31, 2015,” Peterson said, “after seventeen and a half years with HSUS.” The first and to […]
Rat & Rats, by Jonathan Burt and Robert Sullivan
Rat by Jonathan Burt Reaktion Books Ltd. (33 Great Sutton St., London EC1M 3JU, U.K.), 2006. 189 pages, paperback. $19.95. Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan Bloomsbury (175 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10010), 2004. 242 pages, hardcover. $23.95. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Immersing myself in […]
Culling cats increases the feral population, Australian study finds
Expecting to validate the use of lethal culling, researchers find just the opposite HOBART, Tasmania, Australia––Perhaps the strongest scientific support yet for one of the key presumptions behind neuter/return feral cat control has emerged from a 13-month study by Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries biologist Billie Lazenby and two colleagues. Expecting to validate the use […]
The poop on deer, cats & Toxoplasma gondi
Cats wrongly blamed CLEVELAND, Ohio––Deer don’t eat cats, or cat poop, but that did not stop the American Bird Conservancy from alleging in a December 23, 2014 media release that feral cats are the “likely source” of the parasite Toxoplasma gondi, discovered in about 60% of the 444 deer and 65% of the 200 cats […]
Managing Community Cats: A Guide for Municipal Leaders
Humane Society of the U.S. Free download from: http://www.animalsheltering.org/resources/all-topics/cats/managing-community-cats.pdf 33 pages, paperback. $10 if ordered from: http://marketplace.animalsheltering.org/product/managing-community-cats Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Managing Community Cats: A Guide for Municipal Leaders is in most respects the endorsement of neuter/return feral cat control that those of us who introduced the method to the U.S. circa 25 years ago […]
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