- Wayne Linklater • Sep 23, 2015 •
Charmingly and disastrously at the same time, love is blind. And, our myopic affections extend to our cats. This is the unsurprising, but important, conclusion from a new study of 86 cats and their owners in two UK villages [1]. The 86 cats returned between one and two prey per month on average to their owners. Read More
- Wayne Linklater • Dec 13, 2013 •
For cats to be a “beneficial urban predator” they must largely kill the exotic predators and competitors of native animals. Dr. John Flux believes his 17-year record of the prey one cat brought to him [1] proves that cats are good for native wildlife in cities. His belief featured prominently in the media to … Read More
- Wayne Linklater • Jun 30, 2013 •
Why has Australian local government, despite the public debate there, found and implemented solutions to the cat-wildlife problem but New Zealand has not? Why has the debate amongst Kiwis become a conflict of extreme views and positions but Aussies with different opinions have achieve consensus? New study Finding out why is the topic of a … Read More
- Wayne Linklater • Jun 14, 2013 •
They beat us again. The Australians have outperformed and out manoeuvred us. It feels worse this time because they didn’t show us up on the sports field where brute force and ignorance count. They bettered us in the conduct of civil debate, topical and investigative journalism, and good government. Australia might be the ‘lucky country’ not for any good fortune, … Read More
- Wayne Linklater • May 17, 2013 •
My cats died. I buried them – head to toe, together – in my rambling garden below the kowhai tree. I don’t garden on their grave. It is a weedy sinking mound – a tribute to what the living cannot control. I met my cats because I fell in … Read More
- Wayne Linklater • Jan 24, 2013 •
Domestic cats kill native animals – fact. But… … just because our cats kill it does not necessarily mean that native animal populations cannot co-exist, or even thrive, where our feline companions live. Two considerations determine whether cat-kill exterminates native prey populations: 1. how many cats there are, and 2. how fast native animal populations in our backyards … Read More