Recent content by prairie_cats

130 confirmed cat cases nationally and the product is still on store shelves. This is insane. If a human food product killed at a 70% rate it would be pulled in hours. But because it's cat food nobody cares enough to regulate it properly.

Trees that are 3600 years old burning because they cut the fire budget by 71%. That is a decision someone made. A tree that was alive when the pyramids were still new is gone because a politician decided fire prevention was too expensive. I hope Milei has to answer for this.

I respectfully disagree here. Hawaii's native birds are going extinct because of cats. If you can't afford to sterilize your cat you can't afford a cat. The assistance programs exist already, people just need to use them. The fine is for people who refuse, not people who can't.

The part about the car lacking "object permanence" is really concerning if you think about what else could end up under one of those vehicles. A child crawling, a person who fell. And Waymo's first response was to blame the cat for "darting" when the video shows it sitting there for 25 seconds...

This is exactly why there needs to be a registry like they have for other offenses. She was convicted in 2017 and just went right back to doing the same thing. The kittens dying in shelter care because the damage was already done from her home is just awful. If you can't prevent her from getting...

That's the part that gets me too. I know someone back home who use to collect strays and she genuinely believed she was saving them. The cats were miserable but she couldn't see it. It's a mental health issue more than a cruelty issue in a lot of cases, but the cats still suffer either way.

300 cats is not a rescue, it's a fire hazard and a biohazard. The man's death is a tragedy but this is what happens when cat hoarding gets rebranded as "rescue" and nobody questions it. Any legitimate shelter has limits, fire codes, inspections. 300 in one location tells you none of that was...

Australia is ahead of everyone on this. Full 24/7 containment is the only thing that actually works. Curfews, bells on collars, all that half-measure stuff doesn't cut it. Here in Alberta we can barely get people to keep their cats off the road let alone indoors permanently.

176 cats removed and the iguana population tripled. That's the kind of hard data that should end every argument about whether feral cats impact wildlife. They did the thing and got measurable results. Simple. More islands should take note.

You got lucky. Cat bites are actually more dangerous than dog bites because their teeth are thin and deep, like needles. Pushes bacteria straight into the tissue. Out here we had a rancher lose part of his finger from a barn cat bite that went septic. The $30K per unit number doesn't surprise me...

The nene is Hawaii's state bird and it's endangered. Toxoplasmosis from outdoor cats is one of those problems that's invisible until you test for it. The parasite survives in soil for over a year. You can't clean it up, you can only stop new contamination by removing the cats. It's straightforward.

Hoarding cases like this always involve cats more than any other animal. There's something about cats specifically that attracts this kind of compulsive collecting. Had a woman in our area with 40+ cats in a single wide trailer. Took animal control three trips to get them all out. The trailer...

This is pretty standard honestly. Developer wants to build, cats are in the way, cat people lose their minds. Same thing happened near Red Deer a few years back except it was a gravel pit expansion. Nobody cared about the cats until someone wanted to use the land. Then suddenly every feral is...

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