Cast-off cats owed more

Updated April 24 2018 - 9:37pm, first published January 16 2016 - 4:55pm

An ACT government spokesperson reassures us that poisoning stray cats is not on the government's immediate agenda ( "Feral cats could be declared pests in the ACT", January 10, p10). She goes on to talk about "future use" of poisons to control cats. Indeed, the supporting material the government has provided for its proposal to declare unowned cats as "pests" explicitly flags the use of poisons. The most worrying aspect is that the government is not targeting real wild or "feral" cats. It is targeting "unowned" cats. It is targeting abandoned pets whose people have left them to fend for themselves, usually by scrounging from other humans, eating garbage, or eating the rats that eat the garbage.

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