Victoria Australia Cat Animal Welfare Protection
Feral cat Australia – someone cares about him. Most are not so lucky Photo by alexanderino Contents Comment – Intro PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ACT 1986 (as amended) Purpose – section 1 Cruelty...
View ArticleAttitude shift in Australia to confining domestic cats 24/7
Australians are beginning to believe that domestic cats should be confined to the home and yard 24/7. Laws are changing attitudes. The signs are that there is an attitude shift amongst Australian...
View ArticleCat Containment Tips
We can see the gradual trend towards domestic cat confinement inside people’s homes and backyards in Australia. In support of that trend and in further encouragement of it, RSPCA Australia has...
View ArticleCats in Squalor (photos)
Sometimes the word ‘hoarding’ doesn’t apply to cats but things and when hoarding is combined with laziness, fecklessness and untidiness over a long time you get this: In this house in Adelaide,...
View ArticleGrinning South Australian Bow Hunter Kills Feral Cats Cruelly and Gets Away...
Zach Slattery likes to hunt feral cats on hunting trips to Kangaroo Island which is just off the mainland of South Australia. He then posts his photographs, such as the one below on Facebook. You can...
View ArticleRegulations regarding cat ownership results in significant decline in...
A recent survey found that pet ownership has declined in Australia. Numbers have fallen by 200,000 while the dog population has fallen by 100,000 in the past 12 months. It is unsurprising that the cat...
View ArticleAustralian who shot his neighbour’s cat dead avoids conviction but is fined...
This is quite interesting and is a follow-up to a previous article which I wrote about a man, Kent Wilson, who shot his neighbour’s purebred cat (Oriental SH) believing that he was feral when he...
View ArticleSuburb of Canberra Australia is a Cat Containment Area
A suburb of Canberra Australia is a cat containment area. The Threatened Species Commissioner of Australia declared on Facebook that Lawson in Canberra will be a 24-hour cat containment area. please...
View ArticleFeral cats preying on Leadbeater’s possum; balanced headlines required
We need balanced headlines on the story about feral cats preying on the rare and endangered Leadbeater’s possum, a tiny creature living in ‘tall wet forests of Victoria’s Central Highlands’. Phys.org...
View ArticleKilling feral cats in Australia draws attention away from human threats to...
They hope that feral cats will swallow the pellet inside the sausage where it will come to reside inside the cat's stomach and starve them of oxygen. please continue reading
View ArticleIs it illegal for cats to roam qld?
‘Qld’ is a shortened version of Queensland, Australia. So the question is, it illegal for cats to roam in the state of Queensland, Australia? This state covers the top right hand corner of the...
View ArticleResearcher wants to keep Australian domestic cats inside all the time
Because of the supposed devastation carried out by domestic cats as they wander around the neighbourhood, an ‘expert’, Professor Sarah Legge from the Australian National University, has suggested that...
View ArticleMuirhead is a suburb of Darwin Australia and outside cats must be leashed
This may not be a worldwide first but there aren’t many places on the planet, even a relatively small area like the suburb of Muirhead in Darwin, Australia where domestic cats are only allowed outside...
View ArticleFlat-faced Persians banned from flying with Virgin Australia
The airline company Virgin Australia has banned flat-faced cats (and dogs) due to a spike in ‘issues across the industry’. Qantas suspended their animal service to flat-faced breeds in December 2019,...
View ArticleStasi-style cat curfew in Adelaide slammed by Brian May
Adelaide, South Australia, has introduced a cat curfew law which requires cat owners to keep their cats inside between 9pm and 7am the next morning. The idea is to stop domestic cats preying on Aussie...
View ArticleHow many cats can you own in QLD?
The question asks how many cats can a resident own in Queensland, Australia? My research on the Internet was not as straightforward as I had thought it would be. There are two areas in Queensland where...
View ArticleRSPCA South Australia say that cat management policies by councils are...
On my reading of the situation, RSPCA South Australia, are struggling to obtain the agreement of the federal government to instigate a comprehensive policy which they have devised and written up to...
View ArticleTasmanian devil to be reintroduced into Australia to prey on feral cats
Tasmanian devils are being introduced into Australia to prey on feral cats and foxes. The feral cat is persona non grata in Australia. They are enemy number one and the authorities on that vast...
View ArticleAustralian professor claims that toxoplasmosis from cats causes 200 fatal car...
Professor Sarah Legge, of the Australian National University and the University of Queensland is the lead scientist of a team who carried out a study on the impact of diseases transmitted from cats to...
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