10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

What can be done to solve the intractable problem of wildlife and feral cats? Peter, who lives in New York State, noticed two feral cats living near his house. Have they become cuddly pets? But they are healthy, content, and they are safe. Ask Peter Paonessa.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Wildlife 244

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. The plethora of approaches to the feral Cat problem is not an outcome of a diversity of great ideas; it is the ugly chimera of inappropriate compromise among biased and often poorly informed stakeholders. Which would be even worse.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 257

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

I would love to have a Red-tailed Hawk but with my travel schedule, there’s no possible way I could work with a bird, so I content myself with going out with my friends when they are gracious enough to invite me along like in the above photo when one of my falconer friends let me join him when he was hunting with his goshawk.

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Wisconsin Falcons Owls Hunting 258

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It’s the bane of many rehabbers that they simply can’t get through to cat owners on this critical issue of free-roaming pets. She lived to contented age 19, still catching wisps of wind on her face on the balcony catio we set up for her. Anecdotally speaking, my own revelation came when the harm to birds was personalized.

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