STRAY CAT CARE
Suggestion ByS.P.CA. Local bodies should ask the Government to make compulsory the speying and neutering of cats not belonging to recognised breeders and owners, said the president of the Canterbury Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Mr A. Bullivant last evening. Mr Bullivant said a wrong impression might have been gained from a “Canterbury Roundabout” broadcast by the chairman (Mr E. L. May). The society would not make such an approach itself, but it would recommend local bodies to consider the issue. “Cats are becoming pests instead of pets,” said Mr Bullivant. “Indeed they are becoming a menace. Large stores for grain and many other commodities keep cats as a cheap way of controlling rodents. The breeding of these cats is uncontrolled and the strays are over-running residential areas. Mr Bullivant said the Canterbury S.P.C.A.’s proper function was being lost because so much time and money was being spent in dealing with stray cats. Up to 200 a month could be admitted to the society’s animal home. At present £6O was being spent in a fortnight to seek homes for such cats; otherwise they would have to be destroyed.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30739, 1 May 1965, Page 1
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