Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 270, P. 106136 - 106136
Published: Dec. 12, 2023
Language: Английский
Animals, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(6), P. 771 - 771
Published: March 8, 2025
Free-roaming cats and dogs impact biodiversity, public health, the welfare of other animals. Attitudes towards free-roaming animals can influence their population dynamics management success. We conducted an online survey to evaluate social perceptions attitudes among self-selected Portuguese residents aged 18 or older with internet access. The focused on responsible ownership, attitudes, practices, allowed collection analysis 1083 responses (607 for 476 cats). Our results identified needs improvement in pet ownership: increasing cat identification, reducing unsupervised outdoor access, promoting dog sterilization. In terms strategies, we found strong support trap–neuter–release, sheltering, sanctions abandonment, educational campaigns. also limited lethal control methods fear culling long-term caging as barriers reporting While our findings are based a sample, they establish foundation future research while offering valuable guidance policymakers stakeholders.
Language: Английский
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Global Ecology and Conservation, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. e03584 - e03584
Published: April 1, 2025
Language: Английский
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: April 21, 2025
Abstract Free‐ranging cats are widely tolerated in cities, and animal welfare organizations increasingly allow for ‘trap, neuter release’ (TNR) of unowned cats. We show, using the example a university campus adjacent to national park large metropole, that this has implications cosmopolitics over biodiversity on urban edge. A camera trap survey showed were most abundant medium/large mammal species, some individuals hunted within protected area competed with other native predators. Despite concerns from ecologists biologists (who favoured precautionary approach cat management), policymakers status quo (supporting colonies TNR'd cats), noting useful pest rodent control no extinction threats wildlife evident. This outcome, we suggest, reflects long‐standing multi‐species assemblage humans, rodents cats, appreciation as hunters pets. It also points limits ecological information resolving which species should be allowed flourish. Yet study shows systematic data collection photographic evidence can help render lives visible (including their predators competitors) assist policy deliberation.
Language: Английский
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Animals, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 15(2), P. 190 - 190
Published: Jan. 12, 2025
Domestic cats (Felis catus) currently occupy the 38th place in Global Invasive Species Database. Free-roaming potentially have broad-ranging impacts on wildlife, occupying most terrestrial environments globally as house pets, strays, or feral animals. In Australia, for example, are responsible decline many vertebrate populations and extinction of several native mammals. However, Brazil, few studies explored either direct predation other indirect impacts, such competition resources, niche overlap, hybridization, disease transmission. this review, we summarize discuss 34 original research reports, published between 2001 2020, free-roaming Brazil. We briefly contextualize history cat domestication present that, more focused potential to transmit than exert via wildlife. More were conducted Brazilian mainland areas (n = 23)—notably Atlantic Forest—than islands 11). The review highlights also how control management strategies can affect welfare domestic cats, identifying knowledge gaps well opportunities future research. Finally, understanding risks is necessary inform measures mitigate without neglecting welfare.
Language: Английский
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Conservation Science and Practice, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 5(12)
Published: Nov. 6, 2023
Abstract Mammalian predators introduced to oceanic islands pose a significant threat biodiversity and have led numerous extinctions. Free‐ranging cats are particularly problematic due their predatory habits negative impact on conservation. However, there is limited information the ecology population status of free‐ranging in insular ecosystems, where they often represent apex terrestrial predator. Using peri‐urban protected area subtropical island Madeira as case study, we employed camera traps assess density investigate ecological drivers influencing abundance activity nonurban habitats. Based 582 trapping‐nights, identified 25 individual from 156 cat detections. Spatially explicit capture–recapture models revealed 1.4 per km 2 . Cat was positively affected by both proportion rocky areas landscape distance human resource subsidies, whereas no driver found for abundance. Our results indicate that highly abundant throughout suggest core home ranges associated with terrain, away most humanized sections park. do not appear heavily rely anthropogenic food sources, signaling may mostly wild prey fulfill dietary needs. Their preference could be explained increased availability shelter prey, such wall lizard ( Teira dugesii ). Notably, were high vicinity only known breeding colony locally threatened Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus ) Island. findings native vertebrate fauna thus management, during season shearwater, should considered.
Language: Английский
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Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 270, P. 106136 - 106136
Published: Dec. 12, 2023
Language: Английский
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4