Late Tuesday I received word that Indian Harbour Beach, Florida, went through with its proposed ordinance, thereby making it illegal: “for any person to possess, harbor, feed, breed, maintain or keep any feral animals on any public or private property located within the corporate boundaries of the City of Indian Harbour Beach.”
The approved ordinance* reads, [...]
Browsing the archives for the Stephen Vantassel tag
9 Jan 13
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 [...]
1 Feb 11
I don’t mean to take anything away from Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart, but it sometimes seems as if our politicians craft legislation with the sole intent of scoring priceless airtime on the The Colbert Report or The Daily Show. Little wonder these shows are both incredibly popular and enduring: the material just keeps coming.
And, [...]
3 Dec 10
As I dig deeper into “Feral Cats and Their Management,” I continue to undercover discrepancies between the story Hildreth, Vantassel, and Hygnstrom are telling and what’s actually in the literature.
As I pointed out in my first post on the topic, Olof Liberg did not differentiate between native and non-native prey, as Hildreth, Vantassel, and Hygnstrom [...]
2 Dec 10
In my haste to get my previous post online, I neglected to address a critical point (later brought to my attention by a particularly helpful reader). So, a brief follow-up…
In “Feral Cats and Their Management,” the authors point out—correctly, in this case—that “most feral cats (62 percent to 80 percent) tested positive for toxoplasmosis.” [1] [...]
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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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
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