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Moggies must be inside at night under law to protect wildlife Cat owners will be forced to lock moggies up at night from 2020 under tough new laws to be enforced by Monash Council. The curfew will put an end to late-night roaming of domestic cats in a bid to protect native wildlife. | Let baby magpies be “… Baby magpies leave the nest before their tail feathers have grown and learn to forage for food under the watchful eye of their parents. Ms Phillips said unless they were obviously hurt, it was best to leave them be so they learn to forage for food and feed themselves…” | Manager of Oakleigh wildlife shelter urges Monash Council to introduce a cat curfew in a bid to save animals “We need a 24-hour cat curfew in Monash immediately because too many wildlife animals as dying …” |
Critters you’re your care “…Wildlife warrior Michele Phillips said she needed extra hands and extra cash to help her care for the critters. As spring nears, cats and even dogs go after the parents and the baby wildlife are left alone so they have to come to the shelter …” |
Wildlife feel the heat “… Baby magpies leave the nest before their tail feathers have grown and learn to forage for food under the watchful eye of their parents. Ms Phillips said unless they were obviously hurt, it was best to leave them be so they learn to forage for food and feed themselves…” |
South Oakleigh Wildlife Shelter urges people to stop picking up baby magpies “Baby magpies should be left alone – that’s the message from wildlife rescuer Michele Phillips. The South Oakleigh Wildlife Shelter has been inundated with baby magpies as …” |
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Cat calls start debate ”R eaders overwhelmingly support the proposed introduction of a cat curfew to protect wildlife in Monash, with some calling cats killers… But Monash Mayor Paul Klisaris said the council;s Domestic Animal Management plany would not be reviewed until 2017…” | Cats curtailed as council curfews rein in marauding moggies “… Cats, and cat owners, you have been warned: the roaming moggie’s right to fight, feed and fornicate at night may be a thing of the past. Many local councils have imposed night curfew…” | Call for all-day curfew “A wildlife campaigner is calling for a 24-hour cat curfew in Monash after a bumper kitten season resulted in hundreds of native animals being killed or injured. But Monash Mayor Paul Klisaris said because compulsory cat desexing was introduced last year …” |
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Helping out of pocket possums recover “Children at Brentwood Kindergarten have been bust making cosy pouches for possums… all possums that cam to her needed a pouch, and they had to be changed two or three times a day. Anyone wanting to help learn to …” | Let little birds be, says shelter “ Dozens of sucklings and baby birds have been handed in to local shelter, according to wildlife rescuer Michele Phillips. But while thankful the little creatures have been carefully taken to the South Oakleigh Wildlife Shelter , they probably didn’t need to be there…” | Bird rescue water off a duck’s back “A brood of ducklings stranded in the middle of Oakleigh was rescued by a passer-by armed with a butterfly net last month. Yet wildlife experts have warned the circumstances of the recue were rare, and as a rule people…” |
General Enquiries: michele@sows.org.au
