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- A Model for Cat Control - An overview of cat-bashing in Australia by Ric Nattrass of the Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Service.
www.ava.com.au/content/confer/uam/proc93/nattrass.htm
- Alley Cat Allies: Understanding Cats and Predation - Addresses concerns that cats are to blame for the depletion of songbirds and other animals.
www.alleycat.org/ic_fs_understanding.html
- ASPCA: Outdoor Cats - Options for owners who wish to introduce their companion cat to the outside world.
www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?pagename=animed_cats_indooroutdoor
- Australian Cats - A forewarning of the consequences of cat control. Includes links to related material and forum.
www.expage.com/felinepredation
- Australian Veterinary Association: MP's Plan to Eradicate All Cats - Condemnation of a suggestion by Federal Liberal member of Parliament Richard Evans that all Australian cats should be eradicated by the year 2020.
www.ava.com.au/content/press/cat.htm
- Bird Dog News: The Silent Wildlife Killer - Summary of a five-year University of Wisconsin study to determine the impact of free ranging domestic cats on rural wildlife.
bird-dog-news.com/Article/ACat.html
- Cat Herding on the Military Range - Mayport Naval Station ends trap-neuter-release program due to lack of resources. Humane control, owners' responsibility with photographs.
www.defenselink.mil/specials/cats/index.html
- Cat World: Cats in the Garden - Article by Penny Bydlinski offering alternative suggestions for allowing cats outside while keeping them on the property.
www.catworld.co.uk/articlecatworld.asp?artid=206&cat=General%20Features&pre=0
- Cats - Facts and Myths - Researcher Frankie Seymour examines claims made about the impact of Australian cats.
www.animalsaustralia.org/issues/catfacts.htm
- Cats - Perceptions and Misconceptions - A review of two recent Queensland studies about cats and how people see them.
www.ava.com.au/content/confer/uam/proc99/perry.htm
- Cats and Wildlife in the Urban Environment - A review of the cats and wildlife debate by veterinarian Barbara Fougere.
www.ava.com.au/content/confer/uam/proc00/fougere.htm
- Cats Indoors-American Bird Conservancy - A campaign by the ABC to control free-roaming cats. Teachers guide, posters, and fact sheets covering topics such as laws, managed cat colonies, and how to make an outdoors cat happy indoors [PDF].
www.abcbirds.org/cats/catsindoors.htm
- Cats Indoors:Reply - Comments by the Hawaii Cat Foundation and Alley Cat Allies expressing concerns about the American Bird Conservancy Cats Indoors campaign.
www.hicat.org/HCF/Topics/Newsletter/2000/AlleyCatAlert.html
- Cats Inside - Letter objecting to the Cats Inside program.
www.gazette.net/news/cats/letters/letter3.html
- Cats of Rome - The story of the free-roaming cats of the Argentine Tower in Rome.
www.romancats.com/torreargentina
- Cats Vs. Birds - Addresses the commonly held belief that cats are out to get birds and other wildlife.
www.animalnetwork.com/cats/reference/birds.asp
- Cats: Bibliography - Notes on papers and studies on the subject of wild cats.
www.animalsaustralia.org/issues/catbib.htm
- CNN: Australian Proposal would Wipe Wild Cats from Continent - John Raedler reports on the proposal designed to protect endangered species.
www.cnn.com/WORLD/9703/14/aussie.cats
- DDFL: Your Cat: Indoors Or Out - Reasons people allow their cats outdoors with comments and suggestions.
www.ddfl.org/behavior/catinside.htm
- Gazette.Net: Caterwaul Over Restricting Felines - Letter about the controversy over whether to keep cats indoors or let them roam freely.
www.gazette.net/news/cats/letters/letter8.html
- Gazette.Net: Satirical Cartoon - Cartoon about the Montgomery County Humane Society's proposed changes to cat control laws.
www.gazette.net/news/cats/curtis.html
- Keeping Outdoor Cats Indoors - How to train an outdoor cat to become an indoor cat.
animal.discovery.com/guides/cats/essentials/indoorintro.html
- Missing Cats - What to do if your cat goes missing.
animal.discovery.com/guides/cats/essentials/missingintro.html
- Natural History Museum of Los Angeles: Of Cats, Mice and Men - The free-ranging cat's skill at hunting rats and mice.
www.lam.mus.ca.us/cats/C34/index.htm
- New Zealand in a Stew Over Cats - A Nelson city councillor suggests residents eat cats as a way of controlling their numbers.
www.moggies.co.uk/articles/inastew.html
- Our Strict, Unbending Rules for Dealing with Stray Cats - A light hearted article about stray cats.
www.xmission.com/~emailbox/strays.htm
- Petnet: Urban Animal Management Conference - Proceedings of the Australian conferences, including cats' impact on wildlife, unowned cat colonies, and cat legislation.
www.petnet.com.au/uam/uamcat.html
- Problem Behaviors in Cats - What to do about outside cats and other problem cat behavior.
www.fanciers.com/cat-faqs/behavior.shtml#cats_outside
- Rastapoodle says, Adopt a Stray - Anya McCoy's site about cats, adopting strays, and trapping and fixing feral cats. Photos of Ike the Spike and his story.
member.newsguy.com/~herblady/cats.htm
- Seattle Times: Australia Urged to Wipe Out its Cats - Parliament member of Richard Evans' call for the eradication of cats from the continent to stop their wildlife predation.
archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=cats&date=19961017
- Sharing the Turf - How cats share their territory.
www.catsinternational.org/5_2.html
- Stray Cat Alliance - Focuses on Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) as the humane alternative to control the feral and stray cat population. Press releases, membership details, and information about the TNR program.
www.geocities.com/straycatalliance/home.htm
- Stray Cat Alliance: Silent Killers or Easy Targets - Addresses concerns that cats are the cause of the declining bird population. Includes references.
www.geocities.com/straycatalliance/predation.html
- Strays Halfway House - The story of two stray cats, Cirrus and Crookshanks.
strayshh.org/cirrus&crookshanks.html
- The Cat's View of Territory - A cat's view of free roaming and how they relate to their territory.
www.catsinternational.org/5_1.html
- The Great Australian Cat Dilemma - A history of the debate on cat control in Australia.
messybeast.com/ausdilemma.htm
- The Impact of Cats - A review of Barbara Fougeres paper entitled Cats and Wildlife in the Urban Environment.
www.dlg.wa.gov.au/update/docs/2000-12/cats.htm
- The Indoor/Outdoor Cats Debate - Explores the arguments for and against confining cats from an Australian perspective.
www.angelfire.com/sc2/petswelfare/cats/indoor.html
- The Metropolitan Domestic Cat - This is a survey of the population characteristics and hunting behaviour of the domestic cat in Australia, which was undertaken to address concern about the possible impact of cats on wildlife.
www.petnet.com.au/reark/reark.html
- The Pope and the Homeless Cats - Observations by Pope John Paul II about the plight of a homeless cat and her kittens.
www.all-creatures.org/hr/hra-popecats.htm
- The Problem With Strays - Stour Valley Veterinary Centre article on how to stop a cat from straying with points for and against allowing cats to roam freely.
www.valleyvets.co.uk/educat/straycats.htm
- The Truth About Cats and Wildlife - Examines both sides of the Australian cats versus wildlife debate.
www.angelfire.com/sc2/petswelfare/cats/wildcats.html
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