Updated October 2025 Hate speech towards groups of people is well known, but how did it become disturbingly acceptable towards all cats in Australia and their rescuers & carers, and even cat owners? Articles and social media posts with overstated impacts, misleading content and extreme language, followed with comments of hate/ violence towards all cats,Continue reading “Hate speech towards all cats & rescuers/carers”
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Community rescuers information flyers
Do you sometimes need a short summary of a hot topic with animal welfare? Where experts will be referenced, quite often providing detailed evidence-based research to backup recommendations? The LRC team is creating briefs: one-page based information to share with others on some hot topics for community pet rescuers. These briefs may be downloaded andContinue reading “Community rescuers information flyers”
Vic Cat Management Strategy, Submissions due 26 April 2024
It is critical that everyone involved with cat welfare, especially community cat rescuers & feeders, provide a submission as feedback to this strategy. The draft Victorian Cat Management Strategy (the draft strategy) fails to include intrinsic stakeholders in the “main group” for formulation, including domestic cat management experts (eg APWF), the Australian Veterinary Association (AVA)Continue reading “Vic Cat Management Strategy, Submissions due 26 April 2024”
Cat management: what doesn’t work (mandated controls) versus what does
The LRC team provides a range of quotes and references on key approaches and techniques. Mandated cat controlling approaches have not been successful Mandatory / legislated practices are not effective It is of great concern for any “mandatory” legislated practices for pet/owned cats as they have not been proven to be successful for a rangeContinue reading “Cat management: what doesn’t work (mandated controls) versus what does”
Australian draft Threat Abatement Plan for predation by feral cats due Monday 11 Dec 2023 4pm (Canberra time)
Contrary to our federal government proposal, the animal welfare experts define stray cats as domestic semi owned (eg community cats, colony cats etc) and unowned (many being recently abandoned) & that stray cats are NOT feral cats. If this changes it means no more rescuing nor rehoming for stray cats labelled as a PEST animalContinue reading “Australian draft Threat Abatement Plan for predation by feral cats due Monday 11 Dec 2023 4pm (Canberra time)”
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