Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Tests differ on cat rabies
Pantagraph.com - News
BLOOMINGTON -- As far as McLean County Health Department Director Bob Keller is concerned, a Twin Cities house cat had rabies.

Humane Society calls for city cat campaign:
Three-part plan to educate, license and neuter; estimated 6,000 cats in Hornell Hornell Evening Tribune, NY
HORNELL - The Hornell Area Humane Society - which urged the city Monday to enact cat licensing laws, help capture, spay and neuter feral cats and establish ...

South Australia tackles koala population
Age (subscription), Australia
More than a quarter of all koalas on South Australia's Kangaroo Island will be sterilised in the latest campaign to stop their devastation of native vegetation ...
[See previous news articles posted on Feral Cats in the News ~ the Feral Cat Blog! in 2003 and 2004 about the Kangaroo Island Feral Cat Control program.]

Cat shelter not allowed, board says
Oneonta Daily Star, NY
... a certificate of compliance.". Overbey said the Common Council needs to develop a policy on feral cats. Those who lobbied to save ...

Raccoon is 10th rabid animal found in county
Asbury Park Press, NJ
... Rumen said rabies is a year-round concern in the county and is most prevalent in raccoons, skunks, foxes, bats and feral cats. "With ...

Standing firm on cat threat
Winnipeg Sun, Canada
... through on the threat. However, pound manager Tim Dack said the Logan Avenue shelter is unequipped and unprepared to house felines.

Mental test ordered over cats
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI
... In what authorities are calling the worst case of cat neglect ever seen in Waukesha County, a woman charged with hoarding more than 250 cats in squalor in a ...