Coping With Human-Cat Interactions Beyond the Limits of Domesticity: Moral Pluralism in the Management of Cats and Wildlife

Wandesforde-Smith, G; Levy, JK; Lynn, W; Rand, J; Riley, S; Schaffner, JE; Wolf, PJ

Coping With Human-Cat Interactions Beyond the Limits of Domesticity: Moral Pluralism in the Management of Cats and Wildlife

Wandesforde-Smith, G Levy, JK Lynn, W Rand, J Riley, S

Schaffner, JE Wolf, PJ

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Publisher:: Frontiers Media SA
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Citation:: Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021, 8, pp. 682582
Issue Date:: 2021-06-11

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dc.contributor.author	Wandesforde-Smith, G
dc.contributor.author	Levy, JK
dc.contributor.author	Lynn, W
dc.contributor.author	Rand, J
dc.contributor.author	Riley, S https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8079-7069
dc.contributor.author	Schaffner, JE
dc.contributor.author	Wolf, PJ
dc.date.accessioned	2021-06-20T06:52:46Z
dc.date.available	2021-06-20T06:52:46Z
dc.date.issued	2021-06-11
dc.identifier.citation	Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021, 8, pp. 682582
dc.identifier.issn	2297-1769
dc.identifier.issn	2297-1769
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/149641
dc.description.abstract	<jats:p>Although human interactions with cats are often even typically analyzed in the context of domesticity, with a focus on what sorts of interactions might make both people and cats “happy at home,” a large number of cats in the world live, for one reason or another, beyond the bounds of domesticity. Human interactions with these more or less free-living cats raise deeply controversial questions about how both the cats and the people they interact with should be sensibly managed, and about the moral imperatives that ought to guide the management of their interactions through the laws and public policies regulating both human interactions with pets and with wildlife. We review the geography of human interactions with cats living beyond the bounds of domesticity. We acknowledge the contributions made to ideas about how to manage cats by the animal protection movement. We review the tensions that have emerged over time between advocates for the eradication of free-living cats, because of the impacts they have on native wildlife species, and those who have imagined alternatives to eradication, most notably one or another variant of trap-neuter-return (TNR). The conflict over how best to deal with cats living beyond the bounds of domesticity and their wildlife impacts raises the prospect of stalemate, and we canvass and critique possibilities for moving beyond that stalemate.</jats:p>
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Frontiers Media SA
dc.relation.ispartof	Frontiers in Veterinary Science
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.3389/fvets.2021.682582
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	0707 Veterinary Sciences
dc.title	Coping With Human-Cat Interactions Beyond the Limits of Domesticity: Moral Pluralism in the Management of Cats and Wildlife
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	8
utslib.for	0707 Veterinary Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Law
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
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dc.date.updated	2021-06-20T06:52:34Z
pubs.publication-status	Published online
pubs.volume	8

Abstract:

Although human interactions with cats are often even typically analyzed in the context of domesticity, with a focus on what sorts of interactions might make both people and cats “happy at home,” a large number of cats in the world live, for one reason or another, beyond the bounds of domesticity. Human interactions with these more or less free-living cats raise deeply controversial questions about how both the cats and the people they interact with should be sensibly managed, and about the moral imperatives that ought to guide the management of their interactions through the laws and public policies regulating both human interactions with pets and with wildlife. We review the geography of human interactions with cats living beyond the bounds of domesticity. We acknowledge the contributions made to ideas about how to manage cats by the animal protection movement. We review the tensions that have emerged over time between advocates for the eradication of free-living cats, because of the impacts they have on native wildlife species, and those who have imagined alternatives to eradication, most notably one or another variant of trap-neuter-return (TNR). The conflict over how best to deal with cats living beyond the bounds of domesticity and their wildlife impacts raises the prospect of stalemate, and we canvass and critique possibilities for moving beyond that stalemate.

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