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Cats Protection, formerly the Cats Protection League, is a UK charity dedicated to rescuing and rehoming stray, unwanted or homeless cats and educating people about cats and cat welfare. [2] [3] The organization was founded as the Cats Protection League by Jessey Wade and others in 1927. [4] [5] The name was shortened in 1998.
Anna Jessey Wade (2 December 1859 – 10 May 1952) was an English suffragette and campaigner for animal welfare.She was the founder of the Cats Protection League (now known as Cats Protection).
The Cat Protection Society of NSW is a not for profit charity operating in Newtown, NSW. [1] The Society was created in 1958 as a means of reducing the street cat population through neutering and adoption. Their vision is "that every cat has a loving and responsible home". [2]
Other issues hoped to be addressed included mandatory registration (achieved 1 November 2012 for Western Australia), [12] containment of cats to the owner's property (now the law in some parts of Victoria under the Domestic Animals Act 1994 that allows local councils to create certain by-laws), [13] impact of climate change on the cat breeding ...
Online pet adoption sites have databases, searchable by the public, of pets being housed by thousands of animal shelters and rescue groups. A black cat waiting to be adopted. Because of the superstitions surrounding black cats, they are disproportionately more common in shelters than in the general population and less likely to be adopted than ...
Primates, cats, dogs, and horses have additional protection over other vertebrates included in the Act. Revised legislation came into force in January 2013. This has been expanded to protect "all living vertebrates, other than man, and any living cephalopod. Fish and amphibia are protected once they can feed independently and cephalopods at the ...
The Great Ape Project is currently campaigning to have the United Nations endorse a World Declaration on Great Apes, which would extend to non-human great apes the protection of three basic interests: the right to life, the protection of individual liberty, and the prohibition of torture.
A feral cat with a tipped ear, indicating it was neutered in a trap-neuter-return program. A feral cat or a stray cat is an unowned domestic cat (Felis catus) that lives outdoors and avoids human contact; it does not allow itself to be handled or touched, and usually remains hidden from humans.