I’ve been a big fan of FixNation since contacting them, nearly a year ago, to clear up bogus allegations made in the Toronto Star by documentary filmmaker Maureen Palmer, who’d visited the clinic while filming Cat Crazed. The response I received was prompt and professional. And, it turns out, the beginning of an ongoing conversation.
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Browsing the archives for the The Cat Debate category
5 Dec 11
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Posted in The Cat Debate
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, California Environmental Quality Act, Endangered Habitats League, feral cats, FixNation, Los Angeles Audubon Society, Moderncat Studio, Palos Verdes/South Bay Audubon Society, PetSmart Charities, Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return, Urban Wildlands Group
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, California Environmental Quality Act, Endangered Habitats League, feral cats, FixNation, Los Angeles Audubon Society, Moderncat Studio, Palos Verdes/South Bay Audubon Society, PetSmart Charities, Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return, Urban Wildlands Group
24 Nov 11
It’s always good to see the Humane Society of the United States supporting and promoting TNR. After all, it wasn’t all that long ago when HSUS was on the other side of the issue. In 1997, when the American Bird Conservancy launched its Cats Indoors! campaign, the organization was “singled out as its ‘principal partner [...]
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Posted in In the News, The Cat Debate, Threats to Wildlife
Tagged Alley Cat Allies, American Bird Conservancy, Becky Robinson, Hawaii, Humane Society of the United States, New Jersey Feral Cat & Wildlife Coalition, Nico Dauphiné, The Wildlife Society, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wayne Pacelle
Tagged Alley Cat Allies, American Bird Conservancy, Becky Robinson, Hawaii, Humane Society of the United States, New Jersey Feral Cat & Wildlife Coalition, Nico Dauphiné, The Wildlife Society, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wayne Pacelle
29 Aug 11
For more than 20 years now, Gill’s classic text has been required reading for ornithology students. While the book’s attention to conservation issues has expanded over its three editions, its treatment of the impact of cats on bird populations reflects an unsettling shift away from science.
The hoards of students descending upon college campuses this fall [...]
1 Jul 11
Mother Jones, according to its Website, “is a nonprofit news organization that specializes in investigative, political, and social justice reporting.”
“…smart, fearless journalism” keeps people informed—“informed” being pretty much indispensable to a democracy that actually works. Because we’ve been ahead of the curve time and again. Because this is journalism not funded by or beholden to [...]
9 May 11
Given her 15 years’ experience writing the paper’s Pet Tales column, one might expect the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Linda Wilson Fuoco to know something about free-roaming cats and TNR. Or, failing that, leverage her 30+ years as a newspaper reporter and find out.
If her latest column is any indication, though, she’s simply not interested.
The Roundup
Late last [...]
8 Apr 11
“SF Weekly is San Francisco’s smartest publication. That’s because we take journalism seriously, but not so seriously that we let ourselves be guided by an agenda.”
At least that’s what the paper’s Website says.
Now, as somebody who reads SF Weekly only rarely, I want to be careful not to generalize. But if last week’s feature story [...]
19 Mar 11
To hear The Wildlife Society’s staunch opponents of TNR tell it, the media’s just not interested in stories about “the impacts of free-ranging and feral cats on wildlife.”
“This January when thousands of blackbirds fell from the sky in Arkansas, articles about mass extinctions and bird conservation were a dime-a-dozen. When the Deepwater Horizon oil [...]
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Posted in In the News, The Cat Debate, Threats to Wildlife
Tagged Christopher Lepczyk, David Jessup, Feral Cats and Their Management, Melissa Miller, Michael Hutchins, Nico Dauphiné, Pamela Jo Hatley, Robert J. Cooper, Steve Holmer, The Wildlife Professional, The Wildlife Society, Toxoplasma gondii, Travis Longcore
Tagged Christopher Lepczyk, David Jessup, Feral Cats and Their Management, Melissa Miller, Michael Hutchins, Nico Dauphiné, Pamela Jo Hatley, Robert J. Cooper, Steve Holmer, The Wildlife Professional, The Wildlife Society, Toxoplasma gondii, Travis Longcore
25 Jan 11
Among the many news stories, research studies, and government reports brought to my attention last week was an article in Monday’s Toronto Star (thanks, once again, to the good folks at Alley Cat Rescue, who routinely put Google Alerts to shame!). What I find compelling about the article is not its central story (another community [...]
5 Jan 11
“Reassessment: A Closer Look at ‘Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return’” has been revised and expanded!
This paper, a brief review and critique of the essay “Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return” by Travis Longcore, Catherine Rich, and Lauren M. Sullivan, now includes sections [...]
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Posted in The Cat Debate, Vox Felina
Tagged Cole Carlson Hawkins, Coleman & Temple, compensatory predation, Conservation Biology, Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return, David A. Jessup, Ellen Perry Berkeley, Gary J. Patronek, Gary Meffe, Kays and DeWan, LASC BS115483, Merritt Clifton, Mike Fitzgerald, Nico Dauphiné, Stanley A. Temple, Toxoplasma gondii, Travis Longcore, Wisconsin Study
Tagged Cole Carlson Hawkins, Coleman & Temple, compensatory predation, Conservation Biology, Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return, David A. Jessup, Ellen Perry Berkeley, Gary J. Patronek, Gary Meffe, Kays and DeWan, LASC BS115483, Merritt Clifton, Mike Fitzgerald, Nico Dauphiné, Stanley A. Temple, Toxoplasma gondii, Travis Longcore, Wisconsin Study
22 Dec 10
Smithsonian magazine is, according to its website, “created for modern, well-rounded individuals with diverse interests” and “chronicles the arts, history, sciences and popular culture of the times.” Jess Righthand’s recent article, “The World’s Worst Invasive Mammals,” seems—despite its inclusion in the online edition’s “Science & Nature” section—better suited for the pop culture category.
Indeed, the story [...]
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Posted in In the News, Public Health Threats, Rabies, The Cat Debate, Toxoplasma
Tagged additive predation, American Bird Conservancy, compensatory predation, David Jessup, Feral Cats and Their Management, Jess Righthand, Merritt Clifton, Nico Dauphiné, One Billion Birds, Peter Marra, Smithsonian Magazine, The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation, Toxoplasma gondii, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Tagged additive predation, American Bird Conservancy, compensatory predation, David Jessup, Feral Cats and Their Management, Jess Righthand, Merritt Clifton, Nico Dauphiné, One Billion Birds, Peter Marra, Smithsonian Magazine, The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation, Toxoplasma gondii, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
8 Dec 10
Over the weekend, a comment (criticizing, once again, the recently released University of Nebraska-Lincoln “report”) I posted on Audubon magazine’s blog, The Perch, drew fire from Travis Longcore.
Longcore, of course, is the lead author of the widely circulated paper, “Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return” and Science Director for [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, In the News, The Cat Debate
Tagged Audubon Society, Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return, Feral Cats and Their Management, LASC BS115483, lethal control, Marion Island, Travis Longcore, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Urban Wildlands Group
Tagged Audubon Society, Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return, Feral Cats and Their Management, LASC BS115483, lethal control, Marion Island, Travis Longcore, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Urban Wildlands Group
1 Sep 10
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) recently made available online (via downloadable PDFs) several of its articles related to free-roaming cats/TNR. Although abstracts have been online for some time, access to the full text for these papers has generally required either a subscription to the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association or access to [...]
4 Jul 10
Although it’s taken me two months to respond, it took less than two weeks for Vox Felina to come under attack by feral cat/TNR opponent Michael Hutchins, CEO and Executive Director of The Wildlife Society. In his post, Hutchins accuses me of trying to “out-science the scientists,” and refers to my critique of the essay [...]
27 May 10
In April, Conservation Biology published a comment authored by Christopher A. Lepczyk, Nico Dauphiné, David M. Bird, Sheila Conant, Robert J. Cooper, David C. Duffy, Pamela Jo Hatley, Peter P. Marra, Elizabeth Stone, and Stanley A. Temple. In it, the authors “applaud the [...]
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Posted in Population Estimates, Research Protocol, The Cat Debate, Threats to Wildlife
Tagged Christopher A. Lepczyk, Cole Carlson Hawkins, Conservation Biology, Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return, Kays and DeWan, Nico Dauphiné, Stanley A. Temple, Travis Longcore
Tagged Christopher A. Lepczyk, Cole Carlson Hawkins, Conservation Biology, Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return, Kays and DeWan, Nico Dauphiné, Stanley A. Temple, Travis Longcore
24 May 10
In April, Conservation Biology published a comment authored by Christopher A. Lepczyk, Nico Dauphiné, David M. Bird, Sheila Conant, Robert J. Cooper, David C. Duffy, Pamela Jo Hatley, Peter P. Marra, Elizabeth Stone, and Stanley A. Temple. In it, the authors “applaud the recent essay by Longcore et [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, Research Protocol, The Cat Debate, Threats to Wildlife
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Cats Indoors!, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Churcher & Lawton, Coleman & Temple, Conser, David A. Jessup, Laurie D. Goldstein, Linda Winter, Nico Dauphiné, One Billion Birds, Stanley A. Temple, Travis Longcore, Wisconsin Study
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Cats Indoors!, Christopher A. Lepczyk, Churcher & Lawton, Coleman & Temple, Conser, David A. Jessup, Laurie D. Goldstein, Linda Winter, Nico Dauphiné, One Billion Birds, Stanley A. Temple, Travis Longcore, Wisconsin Study
20 May 10
Three months after my letter to Conservation Biology was rejected, it’s become apparent what they were really looking for: applause, not criticism.
Of course it probably doesn’t help that I’m not a member of the club; I don’t even know the secret handshake. (Michael Hutchins, writing for the Wildlife Society Blog, “Making Tracks,” has accused me—an [...]
13 May 10
The fourth in a series of posts that breaks down my critique of the essay “Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return” (Conservation Biology, Volume 23, No. 4, 887–894) by Travis Longcore, Catherine Rich, and Lauren M. Sullivan.
In the past few posts, [...]
10 May 10
The third in a series of posts that breaks down my critique of the essay “Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return” (Conservation Biology, Volume 23, No. 4, 887–894) by Travis Longcore, Catherine Rich, and Lauren M. Sullivan.
As I’ve suggested previously, much of the “evidence” [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, The Cat Debate, Threats to Wildlife
Tagged Conservation Biology, Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return, Ellen Perry Berkeley, Gary J. Patronek, LASC BS115483, Mike Fitzgerald, Travis Longcore, Urban Wildlands Group
Tagged Conservation Biology, Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap-Neuter-Return, Ellen Perry Berkeley, Gary J. Patronek, LASC BS115483, Mike Fitzgerald, Travis Longcore, Urban Wildlands Group
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