Scheme targets only specific cats who eat endangered marsupials ADELAIDE, Australia––Australian cat-haters rejoiced and cat advocates threw up their hands in horror after Adelaide Advertiser reporter Michelle Etheridge on November 30, 2021 revealed the latest of generations of government schemes to poison feral cats and foxes who allegedly prey upon endangered small marsupials. Overlooked […]
How killing cats helped to keep Aussie Liberal Party in power
Cat purge masks otherwise weak record on endangered species CANBERRA, Australia––Cats were nowhere on the May 18, 2019 Australian federal election ballot, and were not among the official campaign issues for any of the contestants, either. Yet the Liberal Party scheme to kill two million cats by 2020 lurked just behind the polling results […]
Aussie feds inflated feral cat population 3 to 10 times to push cull policy
New study reports the findings but ignores their meaning BRISBANE, Australia––Normally, if a major study discovers an alleged ecological problem to be just 10% as bad as was previously imagined, one might expect celebration to follow. The researchers, other experts, nonprofit organizations, and every politician who ever addressed the issue, however transiently, might be expected […]