As many of you are no doubt aware, Sunday is National Feral Cat Day, a holiday created 10 years ago by Alley Cat Allies “to raise awareness about feral cats, promote Trap-Neuter-Return, and recognize the millions of compassionate Americans who care for them.” This year, there are more than 320 events planned across all 50 states.
Even so, [...]
Browsing the archives for the Christopher Lepczyk tag
12 Oct 11
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Posted in In the News
Tagged Anne Morkill, Christine Stracey, Christopher Lepczyk, Elisabeth Rosenthal, Frank B. Gill, Kiera Butler, Matt Smith, Michael Hutchins, National Feral Cat Day, Nico Dauphiné, Nohra Mateus-Pinilla, Peter Marra, Shannon Fredebaugh, Steve Holmer, Timothy O'Hara, Tom Will, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Tagged Anne Morkill, Christine Stracey, Christopher Lepczyk, Elisabeth Rosenthal, Frank B. Gill, Kiera Butler, Matt Smith, Michael Hutchins, National Feral Cat Day, Nico Dauphiné, Nohra Mateus-Pinilla, Peter Marra, Shannon Fredebaugh, Steve Holmer, Timothy O'Hara, Tom Will, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
30 Sep 11
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under fire for proposed roundups of free-roaming cats in the Florida Keys, an out-of-control burn on National Key Deer Refuge land, and participation in anti-TNR workshop.
Many U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel are, I suspect, looking forward to October—or at least putting September behind them. For those involved with [...]
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Posted in In the News, Policy Issues
Tagged Alley Cat Rescue, Anne Morkill, Best Friends Animal Society, Chad Anderson, Christopher Lepczyk, feral cats, Forgotten Felines, National Key Deer Refuge, Open Spaces, The Wildlife Society, TNR, Tom Will, Trap-Neuter-Return, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Tagged Alley Cat Rescue, Anne Morkill, Best Friends Animal Society, Chad Anderson, Christopher Lepczyk, feral cats, Forgotten Felines, National Key Deer Refuge, Open Spaces, The Wildlife Society, TNR, Tom Will, Trap-Neuter-Return, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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
13 Dec 10
For years now, the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) has been promoting erroneous and misleading information in their tireless effort to vilify free-roaming cats. No organization has been more effective at working the anti-TNR pseudoscience into a message neatly packaged for the mainstream media, and eventual consumption by the general public. Speaking to the Wall Street [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, In the News
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Animal People, Ascension Island, Christopher Lepczyk, Cole Hawkins, Coleman & Temple, Daniel Lebbin, Feral Cats and Their Management, George Fenwick, Macquarie Island, Marion Island, Merritt Clifton, Michael Parr, Nico Dauphiné, Stephens Island wren, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Wisconsin Study
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Animal People, Ascension Island, Christopher Lepczyk, Cole Hawkins, Coleman & Temple, Daniel Lebbin, Feral Cats and Their Management, George Fenwick, Macquarie Island, Marion Island, Merritt Clifton, Michael Parr, Nico Dauphiné, Stephens Island wren, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Wisconsin Study
1 Dec 10
“Have you seen this already? This is awful.”
That’s what somebody posted on the Vox Felina Facebook page late last night—along with a link to an MSNBC news story. The headline was an attention-getter, no doubt about it: “Report: Kill feral cats to control their colonies.”
But beyond that, MSNBC had practically no details. A little digging [...]
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Posted in In the News, Research Protocol, Threats to Wildlife
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Christopher Lepczyk, Cole Carlson Hawkins, Coleman & Temple, Crooks and Soule, Feral Cats and Their Management, Linda Winter, Merritt Clifton, Mike Fitzgerald, Pamela Jo Hatley, Paul Leyhausen, Stephen Vantassel, The Wildlife Society, Toxoplasma gondii, Toxoplasmosis
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, Christopher Lepczyk, Cole Carlson Hawkins, Coleman & Temple, Crooks and Soule, Feral Cats and Their Management, Linda Winter, Merritt Clifton, Mike Fitzgerald, Pamela Jo Hatley, Paul Leyhausen, Stephen Vantassel, The Wildlife Society, Toxoplasma gondii, Toxoplasmosis
8 Nov 10
Perhaps it’s an act of desperation, this “kitchen sink” approach favored by some free-roaming cat/TNR opponents. Throw everything—including the kitchen sink—into the anti-cat argument, and perhaps something will stick. Their impact on wildlife and the environment, for instance, or their threat to public safety—it seems there’s something for everybody. (Surely it’s only a matter of [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, Research Protocol, Threats to Wildlife
Tagged American Kestrels, Christopher Lepczyk, Darcee Guttilla, David Jessup, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, James Mosher, Jayna L. DeVore, Kerrie Anne T. Loyd, Nico Dauphiné, Northern Harriers, Paul Stapp, Prairie Voles, Red-tailed Hawks, Robert J. Cooper, Travis Longcore, William G. George
Tagged American Kestrels, Christopher Lepczyk, Darcee Guttilla, David Jessup, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, James Mosher, Jayna L. DeVore, Kerrie Anne T. Loyd, Nico Dauphiné, Northern Harriers, Paul Stapp, Prairie Voles, Red-tailed Hawks, Robert J. Cooper, Travis Longcore, William G. George
12 Oct 10
The timing was uncanny. Four days after my post “Inside Job,” Washington Post columnist Adrian Higgins reported incorrectly that two-thirds of pet cats are allowed outdoors. Higgins doesn’t mention where he got that figure, but considering the sources he used for the piece—including the American Bird Conservancy (ABC), The Wildlife Society, and Dauphiné and Cooper’s [...]
26 Sep 10
Results from the American Pet Products Association’s 2009–2010 National Pet Owners Survey suggest that cats in this country are spending more time indoors than ever before. Although the proportion of owners keeping their cats inside at night has remained relatively steady since 1998 (at approximately 66%), their has been a 14% increase in daytime confinement [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, In the News
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, American Pet Products Association, birds killed by cats, Cats Indoors!, Christopher Lepczyk, Coleman & Temple, compensatory predation, free-roaming cats, Gary Patronek, Linda Winter, Nico Dauphiné, One Billion Birds, Wisconsin Study
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, American Pet Products Association, birds killed by cats, Cats Indoors!, Christopher Lepczyk, Coleman & Temple, compensatory predation, free-roaming cats, Gary Patronek, Linda Winter, Nico Dauphiné, One Billion Birds, Wisconsin Study
25 Aug 10
A pair of Eastern Bluebirds in Michigan, USA. Photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons and Sandysphotos2009
As I sift through my growing collection of studies, news stories, press releases, and anything else relevant to the free-roaming cats/TNR debate, it’s not unusual for me to be diverted by a seemingly minor item—a claim, interpretation, or reference that simply doesn’t [...]
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