Someone has finally found a good use for a cat…and they are selling it on Trade Me.
It is good to see people really trying hard to come up with good uses for cats other than slaughtering wildlife.
Top marks to this seller for his enterprise. Read more »
My mate sent this in from yesterday’s efforts in field.
He suggested that Gareth should put up some prizes for dead cat photos.
Gareth Morgan must have a goodly collection of dead cats to send to Labour:
To understand what has happened in Europe in the last week, we must borrow from the rich and fruity vocabulary of Australian political analysis. Let us suppose you are losing an argument. The facts are overwhelmingly against you, and the more people focus on the reality the worse it is for you and your case. Your best bet in these circumstances is to perform a manoeuvre that a great campaigner describes as “throwing a dead cat on the table, mate”. Read more »
Gareth Morgan has clearly given up on saving penguins. He is intent on spending money on killing cats.
I have found a great investment for him and his Kiwisaver account to invest in:
A reader emailed me this article about a possible solution for feral cats:
Treasured for its storied collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, esplanades and soaring fountain, Florida Southern College is making room for six more structures inspired by the famed architect.
These new structures will be small — only about 5 feet high and 3 feet wide. Unlike other Wright designs, they are not meant for humans.
Rather, the six domiciles built mostly of custom-made concrete blocks will provide shelter for almost 100 feral cats living on the Lakeland campus.
It would be incorrect to call them cat houses, college officials say. The preferred terminology is cat cafe, a place where the wayward felines can kick back for a drink and some chow.
The cafes, designed by a New York architectural firm that has done renovation work on several Wright buildings at FSC, will double as shelter. The Alpha Chi Omega sorority will supply food and watch over the cats in partnership with SPCA of Florida as part of its commitment to control Polk County’s feral cat problem.
“We think it’s good for the community,” said Terry Dennis, FSC’s vice president of operations, who is working with Rodda Construction Inc. to build the cafes designed by Jeff Baker of Mesick Cohen Wilson Baker Architects of Albany, N.Y. Read more »
Gareth Morgan may be onto something as more evidence emerges of those natural born killers called cats:
For all the adorable images of cats that play the piano, flush the toilet, mew melodiously and find their way back home over hundreds of miles, scientists have identified a shocking new truth: cats are far deadlier than anyone realized.
In a report that scaled up local surveys and pilot studies to national dimensions, scientists from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the Fish and Wildlife Service estimated that domestic cats in the United States — both the pet Fluffies that spend part of the day outdoors and the unnamed strays and ferals that never leave it — kill a median of 2.4 billion birds and 12.3 billion mammals a year, most of them native mammals like shrews, chipmunks and voles rather than introduced pests like the Norway rat. Read more »
Gareth Morgan dreams of a cat free New Zealand. In Belarus the cats are starving in basements:
The plaintive meows haunt the people of Minsk in the dead of night.
They come, activists say, from hundreds of stray cats who find themselves locked in basements by Belarus authorities – and doomed to starvation.
City authorities have been sealing off apartment block basements to keep out rats. A tragic consequence is that cats get trapped inside, left to waste away.
“My heart aches to hear how the animals, whom they have walled up, are screaming day and night,” said 72-year-old Antonina Gayenko, a retiree who was feeding some cats through small holes in the iron plates used to board up the basements.
“They have doomed them to death from thirst and hunger.” Read more »
Regular commenter, long time reader and full member of the Whale Army Lesley emails…apparently not only does she read the blog, but so does her cat!
Time you had a photo of a good cat. She can’t bear to look at the bad cats on your blog post. She loves us. She probably would love Gareth Morgan too – and you!
She doesn’t like fresh meat. She tends to chase leaves and the birds chase her.
Cheers Lesley
Gareth Morgan went to the Herald today to try and say that he didn’t want to kill cats…that it was all a beat up…ignoring his website and all the press releases he sent out promoting it.
To be clear, I have never and will never advocate killing people’s pets or placing outright bans. I have too much faith in the New Zealand public for that. I think that by informing people of the damage that cats can do, they will either choose to not replace their cat when it dies, or at least ensure they are responsible pet owners.
I call bullshit on that…however while he was saying that in New Zealand he was talking out of the other side of his mouth to The Atlantic…obviously in the forlorn hope that we’d never find out.
Gareth must not have heard of the internet…clearly…since he has continued to attack cats and cat owners in an interview with The Atlantic…which is ONLINE. Read more »
