On Wednesday, the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel and Loews Royal Pacific Resort announced that the property’s managed colony of cats will be “relocated to the county animal services center.”
This, of course, was not entirely unanticipated. Loews first announced that it would be reversing its position on TNR and on-site managed colonies back in January. Nor [...]
Browsing the blog archives for March, 2012
29 Mar 12
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Posted in In the News
Tagged Loews Loves Pets, Loews Portofino Bay Hotel, Loews Royal Pacific Resort
Tagged Loews Loves Pets, Loews Portofino Bay Hotel, Loews Royal Pacific Resort
26 Mar 12
“Cat Fight,” which appears in the latest issue of Conservation magazine, does little to cut through the rhetoric or clear up the numerous misrepresentations that plague the debate over free-roaming cats.
There is, it’s often said, no such thing as bad PR. Even so, I’m not thrilled with the way I’m portrayed in an article appearing [...]
22 Mar 12
Last week, the Environment News Service reported: “Ohio lawn and garden care company Scotts Miracle-Gro has pleaded guilty to breaching federal pesticide laws by using an unapproved insecticide on bird seed sold nationwide for two years.”
“Scotts is proposing to pay a $4 million fine and give $500,000 to help support wildlife conservation and study. Judge [...]
19 Mar 12
As I mentioned in my previous post, I spent March 4th at the Vertebrate Pest Conference, attending its half-day Feral Cats session. Having made the trip to Monterey, I wasn’t about to return home without a visit to the San Francisco SPCA—to, at last, meet in person some diehard Vox Felina supporters I knew, for [...]
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Posted in Vox Felina
Tagged community cats, feral cats, San Francisco SPCA, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged community cats, feral cats, San Francisco SPCA, Trap-Neuter-Return
13 Mar 12
Imagine yourself responding to a survey, and one of the questions posed is this:
How much do you enjoy seeing feral cats in the environment?
Optional responses include: very much, somewhat, no opinion, very little, and none at all.
If your experience is anything like mine, the question isn’t nearly as straightforward as it first appears. If [...]
7 Mar 12
“As human populations continue to expand farther out into natural areas,” warns The Wildlife Society in a February 17 blog post, “domesticated animals will continue to be at risk for exposure to diseases carried by their wild relatives.” Considering the domesticated animals in question are cats, the organization’s apparent concern is almost touching. Almost.
Actually, TWS [...]
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Posted in In the News, Toxoplasma
Tagged bobcat, feral cats, puma, T. gonddi, The Wildlife Society, Toxoplasma gondii
Tagged bobcat, feral cats, puma, T. gonddi, The Wildlife Society, Toxoplasma gondii
3 Mar 12
Just four years after Beijing’s brutal roundup of the city’s cats—feral, stray, and pets alike—in preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games, the number of cats on the streets is once again raising concerns. “Somewhere between 500,000 and 5 million feral cats are skulking through its courtyard houses, construction sites, and gated apartment complexes, braving the [...]
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