“We need to explode the concept of what a cat guy looks like, what a cat girl looks like,” argues Jackson Galaxy in his book, Cat Daddy: What the World’s Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean. “We need a country literally full of cat guys and cat girls, bikers, politicians, [...]
Browsing the blog archives for July, 2012
28 Jul 12
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Posted in In the News
Tagged feral cats, Jackson Galaxy, My Cat From Hell, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged feral cats, Jackson Galaxy, My Cat From Hell, Trap-Neuter-Return
26 Jul 12
“Bird lovers have just derailed a plan to save some alley cats from death at the hands of animal control,” writes Bruce Leshan in a WUSA-9 TV story that aired Tuesday. “When Prince George’s County Council woman Mary Lehman proposed to order animal control to release” TNR cats, “she ran into a storm of criticism [...]
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Posted in Policy Issues, The Cat Debate
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, feral cats, Prince George's County, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, feral cats, Prince George's County, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return
23 Jul 12
Did you catch this week’s Animal Wise Radio show? Hosts Mike Fry and Beth Nelson invited me on to discuss the story of 76-year-old Joy Mattice, who’s currently facing misdemeanor charges for feeding cats in Minneapolis, as well as the Brevard County (FL) Commission’s decision to place a moratorium on new TNR colonies.
If you missed [...]
21 Jul 12
Tune in tomorrow to Animal Wise Radio, when I’ll be on with hosts Mike Fry and Beth Nelson. Though it’s only been a couple of weeks, there’s a lot to talk about! The recent move by the Brevard County (FL) Commission to place a moratorium on new TNR colonies, for example. And the story of [...]
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Posted in In the News, Vox Felina
Tagged Animal Ark, Animal Wise Radio, Brevard County, Joy Mattice
Tagged Animal Ark, Animal Wise Radio, Brevard County, Joy Mattice
20 Jul 12
Seven minutes and 35 seconds. That’s how long Robert Siegel, co-host of NPR’s All Things Considered, spoke with Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy about their new book, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus.
Cats weren’t mentioned even once.
Was this a massive oversight? A coup perpetrated by the Powerful Cat Lobby, perhaps?
Hardly. “Veterinarians [...]
18 Jul 12
For 50 years now, people have flocked to Brevard County, Florida—home of the Kennedy Space Center—to witness some of the most wildly ambitious endeavors ever imagined. It was a similar pioneering spirit that led the community to adopt TNR in 1999, well ahead of so many others.
Today, a year after the final Space Shuttle flight, [...]
16 Jul 12
Three reasons to sign up for Jackson Galaxy’s e-mail list:
You’ll be supporting Jackson, a tireless advocate for all cats—including those living on the streets. (In May, he took time out of his crazy schedule to help raise money for Spay/Neuter Hotline’s TNR program here in Arizona.)
You’ll learn how to better understand your cats’ behaviors—and how [...]
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Posted in Vox Felina
Tagged Jackson Galaxy, Much Love Animal Rescue, My Cat From Hell, RCtees, Real Men Love Cats
Tagged Jackson Galaxy, Much Love Animal Rescue, My Cat From Hell, RCtees, Real Men Love Cats
13 Jul 12
When I wrote recently about the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s decision to begin trapping cats at the Barnett Access on the Little Red River, I suggested that AGFC fisheries biologist Tom Bly had “been drinking TNR opponents’ Kool-Aid.”
Bingo!
That same day, I sent an e-mail to the AGFC director/deputy directors and commissioners asking for an [...]
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Posted in In the News
Tagged Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, feral cats, Loren Hitchcock, Tom Bly, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, feral cats, Loren Hitchcock, Tom Bly, Trap-Neuter-Return
11 Jul 12
The witch-hunt against free-roaming cats—promoted by USFWS and others—is doing nothing to protect the threatened and endangered species in the Keys (and elsewhere). Neither is the sloppy reporting that allows the agency to mislead policymakers and the general public.
Monday’s Tampa Bay Times reported that a captive breeding program aimed at saving the [...]
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Posted in In the News, Threats to Wildlife
Tagged Anne Savage, Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammocks Botanical State Park, Disney Animal Kingdom, feral cats, Key Largo Woodrat, Ocean Reef Club, ORCAT, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Tagged Anne Savage, Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Dagny Johnson Key Largo Hammocks Botanical State Park, Disney Animal Kingdom, feral cats, Key Largo Woodrat, Ocean Reef Club, ORCAT, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
9 Jul 12
As co-host Beth Nelson was introducing the second hour of yesterday’s Animal Wise Radio show, she referred to me as a “feral cat nerd.” Beth tells me she meant it as a compliment, and that’s exactly how I’m taking it. Besides, as I told her and Mike Fry off the air, I’ve been called far [...]
7 Jul 12
Tune in tomorrow to Animal Wise Radio, when I’ll be catching up with hosts Mike Fry and Beth Nelson. (It’s been more than seven months!) Among the topics up for discussion: toxoplasmosis, rabies, and typhus (oh, my!).
Listen online—and while you’re at it, why not show your support by “Liking” their Facebook page.
7 Jul 12
David Aycock says he loves cats. Which is why he sends them—as many as he can—to the Broward County (Florida) animal shelters to be killed.
Having trouble following Aycock’s “logic”? Me too.
So are the folks at Broward County Animal Care and Adoption, according to a story in Friday’s South Florida Sun Sentinel.
“Broward County two months ago [...]
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Posted in In the News, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged Broward County, David Aycock, feral cats, no-kill, Pompano Beach, Trap-Neuter-Return, Your Daily Cute
Tagged Broward County, David Aycock, feral cats, no-kill, Pompano Beach, Trap-Neuter-Return, Your Daily Cute
5 Jul 12
“The Barnett Access on the Little Red River is being overrun with feral cats,” reported last Tuesday’s edition of The Sun-Times, the local paper in Heber Springs, Arkansas. “Due to the interaction between the public and feral cats, and the risk to human health, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is going to begin a [...]
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Posted in In the News
Tagged Arkansas, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Heber Springs, Rabies, Tom Bly, Toxoplasmosis, typhus
Tagged Arkansas, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Heber Springs, Rabies, Tom Bly, Toxoplasmosis, typhus
3 Jul 12
“There’s fresh evidence that cats can be a threat to your mental health,” according to a post on yesterday’s NPR health blog, Shots. The threat, reporter Jon Hamilton explains, is not the cats themselves by the Toxoplasma gondii parasite that some cats pass in their feces.*
“A study of more than 45,000 Danish women found that [...]
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Posted in In the News, Toxoplasma
Tagged mental illness, NPR, schizophrenia, suicide, Toxoplasma gondii, Toxoplasmosis
Tagged mental illness, NPR, schizophrenia, suicide, Toxoplasma gondii, Toxoplasmosis
2 Jul 12
For the “homeless” cats of Los Angeles, a trip to the FixNation clinic typically means a new lease on life: sterilization, vaccination, flea treatment, and health check-up. Not quite a day at the spa, but closer than many cats will ever know.
For Miso, though, the stopover at FixNation meant something more: the sweet tabby with [...]
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