“I don’t want to be sort of a poodle dog when I’m out there, and a friendly sort of presence in people’s lives,” explained New York Times reporter David Carr in an October 2011 interview with Fresh Air host Terry Gross, “and then come back and do something that’s really mean or aggressive.”
“And if [...]
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9 Jan 12
17 Jun 11
North American Opossum with winter coat. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and Cody Pope.
A study published last month in the online open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases suggests a new twist in the relationship between free-roaming cats, Toxoplasma gondii, and toxoplasmosis infections in marine mammals.
“The most remarkable finding of our study,” notes co-author Dr. Michael [...]
6 Jun 11
Coming up this Wednesday: “Impacts of Free Roaming Cats on Native Wildlife,” a Webinar sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Registration, from what I can tell, appears to be open to the public—though I’m still awaiting a confirmation e-mail (which will include, I hope, some clarification re: time zone for this “2:00–3:00 pm” [...]
17 May 11
Among the findings of a recent study:
Five of 18 cats trapped “between the spring and fall of 2008 and 2009” in central Illinois’ 1,500-acre Robert Allerton Park tested positive for Toxoplasma gondii antibodies. Five of the seropositive cats were trapped at the same site; there, one white-footed mouse (of 21 trapped) also tested positive, and [...]
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Posted in In the News, Research Protocol, Toxoplasma
Tagged congenital transmission, David Jessup, Melissa Miller, Michael Hutchins, Nohra Mateus-Pinilla, oocysts, Robert Allerton Park, Shannon Fredebaugh, T. gonddi, The Wildlife Society, Toxoplasma gondii, Toxoplasmosis, University of Illinois Prairie Research Institute
Tagged congenital transmission, David Jessup, Melissa Miller, Michael Hutchins, Nohra Mateus-Pinilla, oocysts, Robert Allerton Park, Shannon Fredebaugh, T. gonddi, The Wildlife Society, Toxoplasma gondii, Toxoplasmosis, University of Illinois Prairie Research Institute
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
8 Mar 11
On February 25th, the Utah House of Representatives voted rather decisively—44 to 28—in favor of HB 210, which would amend the state’s animal cruelty laws. Whether or not the representatives knew what they were voting for, however, is anybody’s guess.
Listening to the floor debate, one gets the impression there were two—maybe three—different bills up for [...]
3 Feb 11
Below is a slightly reformatted version of the comments I submitted in response to the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex Integrated Predator Management Plan/Draft Environmental Assessment. A PDF version is available here.
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To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing to comment on the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex Integrated Predator Management [...]
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Posted in In the News, Policy Issues, Vox Felina
Tagged Coleman & Temple, David Jessup, Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex Integrated Predator Management Plan, Key Largo Cotton Mouse, Key Largo Woodrat, Lower Keys marsh rabbit, Pamela Jo Hatley, silver rice rat, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Urban Wildlands Group, Wisconsin Study
Tagged Coleman & Temple, David Jessup, Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex Integrated Predator Management Plan, Key Largo Cotton Mouse, Key Largo Woodrat, Lower Keys marsh rabbit, Pamela Jo Hatley, silver rice rat, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Urban Wildlands Group, 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 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
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 [...]
30 Jul 10
Until now, my posts have focused almost exclusively on wildlife impacts (real and otherwise) related to predation by cats, a topic I’ll be returning to soon enough. Over the past week or so, however, I’ve been researching the Toxoplasma gondii parasite (another subject that will keep me busy well into the future). As it turns [...]
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