Eighteen months ago, a female cat showed up in our neighborhood. No one knows where she came from. Since then, she has had three litters with nine surviving kittens. The neighborhood has pitched in to ...
Follow Our Changing World on Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio or wherever you listen to your podcasts The bolt cutters are out. Philip Green bends over the live-capture cat trap, removing a piece of the ...
Some gatophobes commit felicide. They belong to the middle stratum of cat-haters. Others so morbidly hate & fear cats that they are too paralyzed by one’s presence to be able to kill it. More normal ...
Feral and free-roaming cats can be a neighborhood nuisance and a bane for wildlife populations, with estimates that billions of songbirds have fallen prey to cats each year. Cats have a natural ...
Nita Hemeter is the Crescent City’s queen of feral felines. She runs a self-styled, nonprofit organization called Trap Dat Cat out of her house in the Carrollton neighborhood. Hemeter proudly claims ...
An estimated 300 community cats near Sonia Villegas' home have all been “fixed,” thanks to her and Boyle Heights Gatos, a volunteer-run group working toward humanely controlling the cat population ...
Feral cats take a heavy toll on the world’s wildlife, especially Down Under. The solution? Smarter traps, sharpshooters, survival camp for prey species, and the “Felixer.” Frank Bernhardt, a pest ...
Palm Beach has struggled with a large feral cat population for decades. Initial attempts to control the population through euthanasia were met with public backlash. Competition and conflict arose ...
LOWELL — Photographs included among court documents show old, rusted leghold traps allegedly confiscated by police from a man accused of using the devices to snare various animals, including a cat he ...