Have you seen the just-launched Common Sense for Cats website yet? It’s an Alley Cat Allies initiative that the organization describes as “an online resource to educate about outdoor cats and Trap-Neuter-Return, the only humane and effective program to stabilize—and reduce—outdoor cat populations.”
The site serves as a useful primer—courtesy of some very nice visuals—for those [...]
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6 May 13
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Posted in In the News
Tagged Alley Cat Allies, Common Sense for Cats, community cats, feral cats, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged Alley Cat Allies, Common Sense for Cats, community cats, feral cats, Trap-Neuter-Return
1 May 13
It doesn’t happen often enough—but every now and then, common sense, reason, and compassion win the day. Today is such a day.
This morning Hillsborough County commissioners voted 6-to-1 in favor of Hillsborough County Animal Services’ recently announced TNR pilot program—part of director Ian Hallett’s proposal for reducing shelter killing (PDF).
This is a huge victory for [...]
31 Mar 13
Less than two weeks after the “Community Cat Act” received unanimous approval from Florida’s House Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee, the bill (SB 1320) is scheduled to be heard and voted on by the Senate’s Agriculture Committee Monday afternoon.
As I reported in my previous post, the Florida Veterinary Medical Association came out in opposition to [...]
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Posted in In the News, Policy Issues
Tagged Community Cat Act, Florida SB 1320, PETA, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged Community Cat Act, Florida SB 1320, PETA, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return
20 Mar 13
Cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonata) in Cayucos, CA. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and Marlin Harms.
Swallows evolve shorter wings to avoid cars, study suggests.
Over the past few years, I’ve grown increasingly skeptical of such headlines. Still, sometimes the research really does live up to the media hype. This would seem to be the case here, in [...]
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Posted in In the News
Tagged Charles R. Brown, cliff swallows, evolution, Mary Bomberger Brown, predation, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged Charles R. Brown, cliff swallows, evolution, Mary Bomberger Brown, predation, Trap-Neuter-Return
17 Mar 13
It’s been a turbulent few days for Ted Williams. First, the editors at the Orlando Sentinel—who, it seems clear, were previously asleep at the switch—revised his op-ed, pulling the comment about Tylenol and changing his affiliation from “editor-at-large for Audubon magazine” to “independent column[ist] for Audubon magazine.” They also added a disclaimer: “His views do [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, In the News
Tagged National Audubon Society, Orlando Sentinel, poisoning, Ted Williams, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged National Audubon Society, Orlando Sentinel, poisoning, Ted Williams, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return
14 Mar 13
Armed with the recently published “killer cat study” from the Smithsonian Biological Conservation Institute and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, TNR opponents are calling for increasingly extreme measures.
Travis Longcore was among the first, telling KCET reporter Judy Muller that “managing and controlling unowned, free-roaming cats will require euthanasia. There are not enough shelter spaces, there [...]
1 Mar 13
“The only sure way to protect wildlife, cats and people is for domestic cats to be permanently removed from the outdoor environment,” argues American Bird Conservancy president George Fenwick in a Baltimore Sun op-ed published earlier this week.
“Trap-neuter-release programs that perpetuate the slaughter of wildlife and encourage the dumping of unwanted cats is [sic] a [...]
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Posted in Cats and Birds, In the News, Policy Issues
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, George Fenwick, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged American Bird Conservancy, George Fenwick, Trap-Neuter-Return
18 Feb 13
It came as some surprise, a couple weeks ago, to learn that Stanley Temple was a guest on WHYY’s Radio Times, discussing the Smithsonian’s “killer cat study.” (Full disclosure: I’ve yet to listen to the episode.) Temple was, as I’m sure most readers know, the man behind the infamous Wisconsin Study (from which, not surprisingly, [...]
1 Feb 13
By now—just about 72 hours after the story broke—it’s probably more difficult to find people who haven’t heard about the Smithsonian study claiming “that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.4–3.7 billion birds and 6.9–20.7 billion mammals annually” [1] than it is to find people who’ve heard the news somewhere—the New York Times, the BBC, NPR’s All [...]
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Posted in In the News, Policy Issues, Research Protocol, Threats to Wildlife
Tagged Direct human-caused mortality of birds: improving quantification of magnitude and assessment of population impact, Nature Communications, Peter Marra, predation, Scott Loss, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States, Tom Will, Trap-Neuter-Return, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Tagged Direct human-caused mortality of birds: improving quantification of magnitude and assessment of population impact, Nature Communications, Peter Marra, predation, Scott Loss, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States, Tom Will, Trap-Neuter-Return, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
22 Jan 13
The timing was perfect—almost.
Not 10 minutes after I published yesterday’s post, I noticed a link posted by my friends at Stray Cat Alliance on the organization’s Facebook page. Beside the link was this not-so-subtle endorsement:
“THIS IS A MUST READ!!!!!”
As I say, not so subtle. On the other hand, I couldn’t agree more.
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Posted in Sheltering
Tagged community cats, Julie Levy, Kate Hurley, Maddie's Fund, Stray Cat Alliance, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged community cats, Julie Levy, Kate Hurley, Maddie's Fund, Stray Cat Alliance, Trap-Neuter-Return
9 Jan 13
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, [...]
20 Dec 12
A recent study finds important differences between cat caretakers and bird conservationists when it comes to their attitudes and beliefs about the impacts of free-roaming cats and how to best manage them. In the end, however, the methods employed lead to far more questions than answers.
“Because western society’s orientations toward wildlife is becoming more [...]
12 Dec 12
Putting on any conference is a tremendous undertaking. But the challenges involved in pulling together The Outdoor Cat: Science and Policy from a Global Perspective went far beyond the logistics of wrangling 20-some speakers and 150 or so attendees. For starters, there was deciding who should (and should not) be invited to present. (More on [...]
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Posted in In the News, The Cat Debate, Vox Felina
Tagged Audubon Society of Portland, Best Friends Animal Society, ethics, FoundAnimals, Humane Society of the United States, population modeling, predation, The Outdoor Cat: Science and Policy from a Global Perspective, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return, zoonotic diseases
Tagged Audubon Society of Portland, Best Friends Animal Society, ethics, FoundAnimals, Humane Society of the United States, population modeling, predation, The Outdoor Cat: Science and Policy from a Global Perspective, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return, zoonotic diseases
5 Nov 12
When officials in Polk County, Florida, contributed nearly $50,000 to SPCA Florida’s TNR program, they probably expected to take some heat. But maybe not from some of their local veterinarians. According to a story in Friday’s edition of The Ledger though, the “controversial stray cat program is drawing complaints from local veterinarians who question its [...]
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Posted in In the News
Tagged Dr. Jerry Rayburn, Dr. Joseph Ertel, Jeremy Maready, Polk County, SPCA Florida, The Ledger, TNR, Tom Palmer, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged Dr. Jerry Rayburn, Dr. Joseph Ertel, Jeremy Maready, Polk County, SPCA Florida, The Ledger, TNR, Tom Palmer, Trap-Neuter-Return
3 Oct 12
National Feral Cat Day is just around the corner—October 16th. And to mark the occasion, Tomahawk Live Trap and Tru-Catch are offering special discounts.
Receive a $10 discount on Tomahawk’s model 606NC Neighborhood Cats Trap (regularly priced at $60) by using coupon code NFCD12.
The Tru-Catch Light Duty Animal Trap 30LTD is on sale for $50 (regular [...]
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Posted in Vox Felina
Tagged Alley Cat Allies, feral cats, humane traps, National Feral Cat Day, TNR, Tomahawk Live Traps, Trap-Neuter-Return, Tru-Catch
Tagged Alley Cat Allies, feral cats, humane traps, National Feral Cat Day, TNR, Tomahawk Live Traps, Trap-Neuter-Return, Tru-Catch
4 Sep 12
Complaining of the impacts of free-roaming cats on wildlife and the environment, along with a range of public health threats, dozens of veterinarians in Hillsborough County, Florida, have banded together to fight TNR. Evidence suggests, however, that their real concern has nothing to do with the community, native wildlife, or, indeed, with cats. What the [...]
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Posted in In the News, Policy Issues
Tagged American Veterinary Medical Association, Animal Coalition of Tampa, AWAKE!, Don Thompson, feral cats, Free-roaming Abandoned and Feral Cats, Hillsborough Animal Health Foundation, Hillsborough County, Humane Society of Tampa Bay, Sanctuaries, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return
Tagged American Veterinary Medical Association, Animal Coalition of Tampa, AWAKE!, Don Thompson, feral cats, Free-roaming Abandoned and Feral Cats, Hillsborough Animal Health Foundation, Hillsborough County, Humane Society of Tampa Bay, Sanctuaries, TNR, Trap-Neuter-Return
1 Sep 12
Complaining of the impacts of free-roaming cats on wildlife and the environment, along with a range of public health threats, dozens of veterinarians in Hillsborough County, Florida, have banded together to fight TNR. Evidence suggests, however, that their real concern has nothing to do with the community, native wildlife, or, indeed, with cats. What the [...]
29 Aug 12
Complaining of the impacts of free-roaming cats on wildlife and the environment, along with a range of public health threats, dozens of veterinarians in Hillsborough County, Florida, have banded together to fight TNR. Evidence suggests, however, that their real concern has nothing to do with the community, native wildlife, or, indeed, with cats. What the [...]
27 Aug 12
Complaining of the impacts of free-roaming cats on wildlife and the environment, along with a range of public health threats, dozens of veterinarians in Hillsborough County, Florida, have banded together to fight TNR. Evidence suggests, however, that their real concern has nothing to do with the community, native wildlife, or, indeed, with cats. What the [...]
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