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Let's give feral cats their citizenship

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageThere's nothing feral about this Australian wildcat.Photograph by Angus Emmott

There’s been a lot of talk about killing feral cats, with the government’s recently announced war on cats setting the goal of killing two million by 2020.

On The Conversation last week, Katherine Moseby and John Read explained several different ways to control...

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