Feb
26
Cats Indoors!
ByThe more than 90 million feral housecats in this country wreak havoc on wildlife wherever they occur; the problem is becoming increasingly acute at Arizona sites such as the Gilbert Water Ranch, where the soft-hearted soft-headed dump kittens in horrific numbers.
Tucson Audubon has come up with some ingenious ways to raise public awareness of this problem.
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The children who gathered ’round when David connected took home more than just fistfuls of goodies:
Let’s hope the message proves as sticky as the candy!
2 Comments
February 26th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Hahaha, this is too much. I love it. Was this done at the ranch itself? What was the public’s reaction? We need to do something like this in NJ. I have a couple cats in my neighborhood that need a relocation.
February 27th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
It would have been great to have this up at Gilbert, but it was part of a volunteer celebration here in Tucson, at Reid Park (land of Lewis’s Woodpecker and Harris’s Hawk). There hasn’t been any pronounced reaction to it yet, to my surprise, but I very much hope that some picnickers and pin~ata fans went home with something to think about.
Thanks for writing, Patrick!