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Cat killer “Doctor Quack” paid well by East Bay Regional Park District

April 21, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Shotgun-wielding biologist took home $182,951,  left dead cats in dumpsters             OAKLAND, California––East Bay Regional Park District biologist David “Doctor Quack” Riensche may have been paid more per feral cat he allegedly killed than the $3,000 that “Joe Exotic” paid to Frank Allen Glover in his foiled plot to murder Big Cat Rescue founder Carole […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Population control, Shelters, Spay/neuter, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Cecilia Theis, David “Doctor Quack” Riensche, Edward Howe Forbush, Joe Exotic, Laura Anthony, LittleBuddytheCat, Merritt Clifton, Nico Dauphine Arcilla

Predation is nature’s disease control, including for Tweety & Sylvester

March 16, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Too few cats around bird feeders means pine siskins die by thousands          SACRAMENTO, California––When are free-roaming cats watching a bird feeder the birds’ best friend? When infectious disease is at large among common bird feeder species,  spreading rapidly from bird to bird in the absence of predators to kill and consume the sick and […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Birds, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Shelters, Spay/neuter, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Becky Robinson, Edward Howe Forbush, Krysta Rogers, Louise Holton, Merritt Clifton, Pablo Beldomenico, Phil Arkow

Cats, tahrs & feathers on Table Mountain, South Africa

September 21, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Goats gotten,  South African National Park Service scopes in on feral cats             CAPE TOWN, South Africa––Have feral cats succeeded feral Himalayan mountain goats,  called tahrs,  as the purported greatest threat to native South African wildlife at Table Mountain National Park? The few remaining Table Mountain tahrs, a cause celebré from 2001 to 2004,  are descended […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Africa, African wildlife, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Population control, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Anneke Malan, Colleen Seymour, Edward Howe Forbush, Kyle Mijlof, Merritt Clifton, Nicoli Nattrass, Niki Moore, Peter Wolf, Tiara Walters

Feral cats poop where someone feeds them––& that’s the big problem

September 1, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Two studies confirm skepticism of waiting for studies to confirm the obvious             LOS ANGELES––The unacknowledged takeaway lesson from two new studies of neuter/return feral cat control,  published respectively by the City of Los Angeles and the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science,  may be that by the time academia,  the courts,  and public policymakers […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Behavior & health, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Population control, Shelters, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: A Long-Term Lens, Edward Howe Forbush, Lewis Robert Plumb, Los Angeles Citywide Cat Program, Merritt Clifton, Thomas McKnew

Why killing cats on remote islands will not help biodiversity

April 2, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

And why killing dogs, rats,  pigs,  goats,  mice & mongooses too would be mainly make-work for exterminators             SANTA CRUZ,  California––Appealing for funding to kill cats,  dogs,  rats,  pigs,  goats,  and mongooses on at least 107 islands belonging to 34 nations,  in the name of promoting biodiversity,  the previously obscure 25-year-old organization Island Conservation scored […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Dogs, Dogs & cats, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Pacific islands & other, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: E.O. Wilson, Edward Howe Forbush, Helen Briggs, John R. Platt, Merritt Clifton, Sally Esposito

$1.5 million DC Cat Count: useful, make-work, or compiling a hit list?

July 27, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Counting cats in Washington D.C. & how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall             WASHINGTON D.C.––For $1.5 million,  one could catch,  sterilize,  and microchip all of the approximately 7,000 free-roaming,  not-yet-fixed cats who may be at large in the 68.34 square miles of Washington D.C.,  at an average cost per cat of […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal control, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Birds, Cats, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Humane history, Hunting & trapping, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Shelters, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Andrew Rowan, Becky Robinson, Edward Howe Forbush, George Fenwick, Howard & Clara Trumbull, John Marbanks, Louise Holton, Merritt Clifton, Nico Dauphine, Peter Marra, Tyler Flockhart

Why is Hawaii “moving at a hurried pace” to kill cats at boat harbors?

September 18, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

New policy allows waterfront cats to be killed “by any means deemed necessary”             MILILANI, Hawaii––Hawaii Department of Land & Natural Resources chair Suzanne Case “is moving at a hurried pace to kill cats with a lead pellet fired from a high powered pellet rifle to the head or heart,”  alleges Carroll Cox––who is not […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Advocacy, Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Birds, Cats, Conservation, Cruelty & neglect, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Pacific islands & other, Population control, Population control, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Brigitte Nameta, Bryan Kortis, Carroll Cox, Edward Howe Forbush, Merritt Clifton, Richard Pough, Suzanne Case

Brush possum killings build momentum for “boycott New Zealand” drive

August 2, 2017 By Merritt Clifton

Coercing children to kill possums oversteps international bounds          WELLINGTON,  New Zealand––If New Zealand conservation minister Maggie Barry held the portfolios for attracting tourism and economic development instead,  she might be less notoriously dismissive of increasing international humane concern about the outcomes of the scheme she announced in 2015 to rid the nation of “invasive” […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Agriculture, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Birds, Cattle & dairy, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Habitat, Hooved stock, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Organizations, Sheep & goats, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Bill Benfield, Edward Howe Forbush, Jasmin de Boo, Jules Howard, Leonard Cockayne, Lynley Tullock, Maggie Barry, Marc Bekoff, Merritt Clifton

How a birder’s mistakes incited 100 years of cat hatred

July 11, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

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 […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal rights & welfare, Behavior & health, Birds, Book & film reviews, Cats, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Feral cats, Habitat, Humane history, Hunting & trapping, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Urban wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife impacts Tagged With: Edward Howe Forbush, Merritt Clifton

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