Aspect 1 – Who am I?
The scientific name for a cat is Felis catus, the common name is feral cat, domestic cat or stray cat.
The Feral cat is classified as cats that live freely in the wild and are not reliant on humans for their food or shelter. Aspect 2 – Reasons for the Introduction
The introduction of Feral cats was deliberate. Feral cats were released into Australia, particularly in farming areas with the hope of reducing and controlling the rabbit, mice and rat populations in the rural areas.
Since European settlement cats have been living in Australia. It is thought the may have arrived in the 17th century with the Dutch shipwrecks. In the 1850s feral cats had established in the wild.
Some evidence suggests that cats were present in …show more content…
Feral cats have also contributed and caused the failure of many attempts to reintroduce native fauna that are facing extinction back into the environment.
The Feral cats are still considered to be a big threat to the survival of native fauna and flora throughout Australia.
The outcome of Feral cats killing and reducing the population of Australian animals also impacts on the other wildlife by ruining the food chain.
In Australia now there are about 20 million Feral cats, each night a Feral cat eats about four indigenous and native Australian species. In a year that is over twenty billion animals being killed. This is decreasing the population of these animals fast and we cannot restore these animals fast enough, so that is why Feral cats are pests and impact dramatically on the native fauna and flora of Australia.
Feral cats have threatened the lives of over 100 native species in Australia. Most Feral cats have caused the extinction to some of the ground dwelling birds and mammals. They are also responsible for the decline in the population of land based animals like the bilby, bandicoot, numbat and bettong. Feral cats can also carry many harmful and infectious diseases that can be transmitted into the native animal population, livestock and even sometimes …show more content…
Some popular methods used are shooting, poisoning, trapping and fencing cats into a small area.
Other effective methods are fencing of food sources like rubbish dumps this significantly contributes to the reduction in numbers in that area. Responsible cat ownership is another way to reduce the Feral cat population to keep cats locked up at night.
Rubber jawed leg hold traps are a method of trapping the cats as they are known to avoid the box traps. The government and councils are even going as far as lending cats traps to people for removing the stray or feral cats in urban areas.
Lures can be used where they use a recording mimicking the stress call of an animal to draw the Feral cats to a trap or bait.
The current control programs of shooting, poisoning, lures, fencing of land or rubber trap have not been as successful as they would have liked. Cats are known to be very shy and difficult to find in their own habitat, this causes most to of these programs to be labour intensive and inefficient. If the Feral cats are removed from one area, this encourages new groups of Feral cats to move
The scientific name for a cat is Felis catus, the common name is feral cat, domestic cat or stray cat.
The Feral cat is classified as cats that live freely in the wild and are not reliant on humans for their food or shelter. Aspect 2 – Reasons for the Introduction
The introduction of Feral cats was deliberate. Feral cats were released into Australia, particularly in farming areas with the hope of reducing and controlling the rabbit, mice and rat populations in the rural areas.
Since European settlement cats have been living in Australia. It is thought the may have arrived in the 17th century with the Dutch shipwrecks. In the 1850s feral cats had established in the wild.
Some evidence suggests that cats were present in …show more content…
Feral cats have also contributed and caused the failure of many attempts to reintroduce native fauna that are facing extinction back into the environment.
The Feral cats are still considered to be a big threat to the survival of native fauna and flora throughout Australia.
The outcome of Feral cats killing and reducing the population of Australian animals also impacts on the other wildlife by ruining the food chain.
In Australia now there are about 20 million Feral cats, each night a Feral cat eats about four indigenous and native Australian species. In a year that is over twenty billion animals being killed. This is decreasing the population of these animals fast and we cannot restore these animals fast enough, so that is why Feral cats are pests and impact dramatically on the native fauna and flora of Australia.
Feral cats have threatened the lives of over 100 native species in Australia. Most Feral cats have caused the extinction to some of the ground dwelling birds and mammals. They are also responsible for the decline in the population of land based animals like the bilby, bandicoot, numbat and bettong. Feral cats can also carry many harmful and infectious diseases that can be transmitted into the native animal population, livestock and even sometimes …show more content…
Some popular methods used are shooting, poisoning, trapping and fencing cats into a small area.
Other effective methods are fencing of food sources like rubbish dumps this significantly contributes to the reduction in numbers in that area. Responsible cat ownership is another way to reduce the Feral cat population to keep cats locked up at night.
Rubber jawed leg hold traps are a method of trapping the cats as they are known to avoid the box traps. The government and councils are even going as far as lending cats traps to people for removing the stray or feral cats in urban areas.
Lures can be used where they use a recording mimicking the stress call of an animal to draw the Feral cats to a trap or bait.
The current control programs of shooting, poisoning, lures, fencing of land or rubber trap have not been as successful as they would have liked. Cats are known to be very shy and difficult to find in their own habitat, this causes most to of these programs to be labour intensive and inefficient. If the Feral cats are removed from one area, this encourages new groups of Feral cats to move