🐰🐣 Just a reminder for everyone thinking of visiting us over the Easter long weekend!!

Our Adoption Centre will be open by appointment only on Saturday 30 March and Monday 1 April.

Our Cat Boutique will be open for all your cat care essentials on Saturday 30 March between 10am – 2pm. Make sure to check our opening hours before visiting:

(more…)

Beautiful kittens, Theo (Black & White male) and Sia (Tortie female) adopted in January 2024 have settled really nicely in our home.
(more…)

Thinking of visiting our Adoption Centre over the festive season?

Make sure to check our opening hours.

(more…)

Cats are sentient animals who deserve to be treated humanely.

Cats do not belong in all environments but demonising them as a species is to deliberately distract from the human-caused drivers of biodiversity loss overseen by this and previous governments. It achieves nothing more than to direct cruelty towards cats.

Habitat loss and climate change are the greatest threats to biodiversity.

A “war” on cats will not undo land-clearing, mining, and logging in native forests. Creating moral panic using numbers extrapolated from guesstimates based on ballpark figures founded on false assumptions is not constructive. And make no mistake, this plan goes well beyond “feral” cats (who have no dependency on people, directly or indirectly) and also targets cats who are loved, lost, homeless, fed and cared for in the community. Perhaps we should be grateful it notes shooting or poisoning these cats might be problematic …

Cat Protection operates in, and advocates for, a One Welfare framework that recognises the interdependency of human, animal, and environmental wellbeing. Focus on a single species is flawed. A multifaceted, humane approach which respects the importance of cats to people (as well as cats’ intrinsic dignity), as well as the importance of the human role in animal care and ecological management, is needed.

We don’t disagree there is an urgency to protecting our environment, we do disagree with singling out cats. Here’s what we presented to the National Domestic Cat Management Working Group earlier this year: Cruelty won’t solve a wicked problem (catprotection.org.au)

You can submit your views on the TAP here: Consultation hub | Draft updated threat abatement plan for predation by feral cats. – Climate (dcceew.gov.au)

The Australian Pet Welfare Foundation (whose community cat research we support) has lots of great information: Response to Draft TAP – Australian Pet Welfare Foundation

Please let the government know that kindness, not cruelty, is the way forward.

We adopted the two boys three years ago today, (known as Cheddar & Jasper during their stay at Cat Protection) now named Tango & Cash (after the 1980’s movie).

(more…)

Cat Protection Society of NSW Limited
103 Enmore Road Newtown NSW 2042
ABN 81 610 951 615     ACN 631 197 629

The following nominations have been received for the election of Appointed Directors, to be held at the AGM on 25 November 2023.
(more…)

I adopted Boots about a month ago and he has settled into life on the Northern Beaches very well.

(more…)

Cat Protection Society of NSW calls on Minister Plibersek to declare peace on the environment instead of a “war” on feral cats

Habitat loss and climate change are the biggest threats to biodiversity.

The Minister for the Environment continues to support the logging of native forests.

Land clearing continues unabated.

“Action” on climate change is still pending.

Obviously, it’s time to create a distraction.

Creating a moral panic about cats is a tactic used over and over again to pretend there’s a simple solution to “wicked” environmental problems.

Invoking violent language and demonising a single species is dangerous. It will not undo the environmental destruction that is taking place right now.

Just to be clear, cats didn’t approve the gas project in the Pilliga; they aren’t speed-logging in the proposed Great Koala National Park; they aren’t conducting seismic blasts in the oceans; they aren’t logging precious old growth forests. They don’t cause mega-bushfires or floods.

But people are being asked to “look over there” at a cat. To not look at barren, denuded or toxic landscapes, or chopped down trees that are hundreds of years old and that have provided sanctuary to wildlife for centuries, or dead fish and dead waterways.

Caring for the environment for the sake of all people and nature requires compassion, commitment, effort, investment, science, consultation, knowledge, ethics, community, thoughtfulness … but it’s much easier to dip into the tired old playbook to pretend there is one species, one species alone, responsible for all the ills and it’s even easier when that species has already suffered demonisation throughout history.

7 September 2023

Ramsay was adopted from Cat Protection Society in 2009 as a friendly stray. (more…)

In our Autumn issue of Cat Affairs, we examine the hidden dangers for animals on the internet – and our factsheet delves deeper into online scams and the lethal trade in wildlife that is promoted online.

Our new factsheet highlights the ‘red flags’ to look out for and the steps you can take to protect yourself and animals from exploitation.

Read the full article from Cat Affairs Harmed in the making of: fake animal rescue videos.

(more…)