What do WA local governments want when it comes to responsible cat ownership? What have they tried? What do they want to do? What are their challenges? We asked them!
78% of LGAs in WA would do permanent containment for pet cats if there was a clear pathway to implementation.
Read the report. 👇
16.07.2025 09:55 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
WA councils want to outlaw roaming cats. Here’s what’s stopping them
Perth’s Cat Haven could halve its annual intake if councils made cat containment laws, it says – and many councils are trying.
“It is time for Western Australia to enable and encourage local cat laws that enable permanent containment for pet cats”
The broader implications of our survey of local governments across WA regarding responsible pet cat ownership.
www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...
16.07.2025 09:49 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
‘Bold’ WA council fights back on cats
Twenty-three local governments have tried and failed to enact cat containment laws. This one thinks it’s got a solution – and it could come just in time.
Quite possibly one of the clearest summaries as to why change is both possible and necessary for the permanent containment of pet cats in Western Australia. Let's get this change happening now!
www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...
22.05.2025 02:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Please join us for this important workshop on the how of implementing permanent containment for pet cats. This is all part of the process for moving to a new normal for best practice cat ownership in Western Australia. We hope you can all be part of that change. See you online on the 12th June!
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👏 A great turnout at a 🐇 control workshop last week to provide Southwest landholders access to the R5 calicivirus release for introduced rabbits. #feralcats, #foxes & dingoes all consume rabbits as prey and rabbits cause environmental degradation across Australia. Check out LBG website lbginc.org.au
04.03.2025 02:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
People ‘just picking up’ starving WA cockatoos as burglars target nests
At what point does a pet become a pest? Meanwhile, here’s why one of Perth’s foremost black cockatoo rehab figures is saying he’s ‘never seen anything like it’.
"Not just nestlings were killed...numerous eggs were cracked open & six breeding mothers killed." Tree hollows & food trees used by #endangered #Blackcockatoos are increasingly rare, & it doesn't help their population when #cats add to their demise. #feralcats. www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...
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