thanks Packy
I was aware of this story... it was a hot topic on talk-back radio here yesterday.
IMO Gareth Morgan should be stripped of his Welsh Citizenship (if he still claims it).
He runs a financial investment company.. I am seriously hoping that the 48% of the population who own cats stop doing business with him, along with the rational part of the non-cat owning population.
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But many New Zealanders are against the campaign. Even on Morgan’s website, 70 percent on Tuesday were voting against making their current cat their last.
Morgan could not be reached on Tuesday.
And the science remains unclear. Some argue that cats may actually help native birds by reducing the population of rodents, which sometimes feed on bird eggs.
Morgan’s separate personal blog, in fact, has a separate campaign to raise $1 million to eradicate mice from the remote Antipodes Islands, where rodents are the only predators.
A 2011 survey by the New Zealand Companion Animal Council found that 48 percent of households in New Zealand owned at least one cat, a significantly higher rate than in other developed nations. The survey put the total cat population at 1.4 million.