We’re proud to announce the release of our latest Law & Policy Brief, “Trap-Neuter-Return Ordinances and Policies in the United States: The Future of Animal Control.” The first comprehensive look at Trap-Neuter-Return policies across the United States, this report is proof that animal control policies are finally catching up with the core values of this […]
Today, we’re pleased to announce that we’re launching http://www.CommonSenseForCats.com. This online resource explains the massive failure of catch and kill, introduces our innovative approach of on-the-ground activism to increase Trap-Neuter-Return, and debunks the misinformation that plagues nearly every media story about outdoor cats. Humane treatment of outdoor cats isn’t complicated, it’s just common sense! There […]
Today we delivered to the Smithsonian Institution a petition signed by more than 55,000 Americans to protest a controversial study the institution funded on cats and wildlife. The signatures were delivered by Alley Cat Allies president and co-founder Becky Robinson to Smithsonian Undersecretary of Science Eva Pell, along with an analysis by an independent researcher […]
Articles scapegoating cats have been all over the news this week, from The New York Times to USA Today. The media are relying on a so-called “study” funded by the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Division of Migratory Birds that recklessly perpetuates a bogus debate. This “study” was authored […]
A biased study on cats and wildlife published this week in Nature Communications is just another veiled promotion by bird advocates to ramp up the mass killing of outdoor cats. Some of the research cited is more than a half-century old; discredited researcher Nico Dauphine, who was convicted by a D.C. jury for trying to […]
As one of the nation’s largest animal rights groups, it’s astonishing that PETA continues to promote myths and misconceptions about feral cats, basically declaring them “better off dead.” (“Don’t Turn Your Back on Feral Cats,” October 18, 2010.) PETA’s promotion of the mass killing of cats is remarkably backwards and out of step. First and […]
