Cats Assistance To Sterilise Inc

19/03/2026

Many cat groups and others are advocating for the government to provide this service. On the surface it would seem like a good idea so why should we not campaign for Gov. assistance with this vital work of cat desexing or vote for those who want to bring it in?

The answer lies in three main areas

Many cat groups and others are advocating for the government to provide this service. On the surface it would seem like a good idea so why should we not campaign for Gov. assistance with this vital work of cat desexing or vote for those who want to bring it in?

30/04/2025

The Cats Bylaw 2024 was passed virtually behind your backs.
(see actions you can take below)

The Cats Bylaw 2024 was passed virtually behind your backs. (see actions you can take below) After stating in the Agendas for weeks that the Cat Bylaw was laying on the table and that…

11/10/2024

From – C.A.T.S. Cats Assistance To Sterilise Inc Suburb – All areas in South Australia Interests – Cat Management and reduction in cat numbers, cat-related problems and impact on Wildlife Public Viewing – YES and including our name and postal address

29/06/2023

Tea Tree Gully Council Bylaw
ACTION NEEDED BY JULY 3RD

WARNING – The Tea Tree Gully Council is considering a cat bylaw which would encourage cat-haters to trap and kill your cats.

You only have until MONDAY 3 July 2023 to get your opposition to the Council. Just a few days!

WARNING – The Tea Tree Gully Council is considering a cat bylaw which would encourage cat-haters to trap and kill your cats.

25/03/2023

Media Release from C.A.T.S.

“The shelters are overflowing, due to the massive failure of cat laws, causing double the numbers of undesexed cats from 5 years ago, and the RSPCA is no longer taking in cats.”

01/02/2023

Currently there is a Motion by the SA Legislative Review Committee on the Parliamentary Agenda to disallow the Campbelltown Council Cats By-Law 2023. This is to be debated shortly when Parliament resumes.

If this is not disallowed then…

Cats will be trapped, injured and killed. Microchips won’t guarantee return.

Council cannot deliver cat-free yards and stop wildlife attacks as new cats infiltrate. (“Vacuum Effect”)

Council’s Animal Management Plan states. “Even if Council was to be effective in confining pet cats, ‘unprotected spaces’ would be subject to visitation from feral cats. Officers provide advice and guidance to cat owners to be responsible by promoting the desexing of cats through the CATS (Cats Assistance To Sterilise) program.”

19/10/2020

The Vacuum Effect

Confinement, trapping and killing and trapping and removal of cats fail to control numbers because these actions create habitat vacuums. Nature abhors a vacuum. Individuals of the same species from areas surrounding a newly created vacuum move in to recolonise it. This is a scientifically recognised occurrence among animal populations.

There is no such thing as a cat-free zone in an open system that can sustain cats, unless there is something that keeps the cats out 24/7.

Scientific evidence has proved that confinement, removal and killing of cats actually increase the numbers of cats, destabilises the ecosystem and creates a danger to native wildlife. So, the incorrect propaganda that has been spread that confining pet cats will save native wildlife is wrong.

The best thing for native wildlife is to have desexed, well fed cats that hold their territories and stop new cats from infiltrating and breeding.

By this method, the numbers of cats reduce to the minimum that can hold the territory against new undesexed cats, while controlling the rats and mice and also deterring the snakes which are attracted by the rodents.

Cats are the safest and most efficient rodent controllers and are far better for the native wildlife and the environment than baiting, which poisons the native wildlife, other animals like cats and dogs and pollutes the land and the waterways.

https://catassist.org.au/

29/11/2019

C.A.T.S. organises low-cost desexing of cats in South Australia to prevent the breeding of unwanted kittens, and to manage cat-related problems humanely by returning desexed cats to their home.
People who need help with desexing can ring C.A.T.S. to organise low-cost desexing of both their owned cats and unowned cats which they are feeding and care for.
However, purebred cats and cats bought from breeders are not eligible. C.A.T.S. has vets who help us throughout the Adelaide metropolitan area and some country areas.

C.A.T.S. organises low-cost desexing of cats to prevent the breeding of unwanted kittens, and to manage cat-related problems humanely by returning desexed cats to their home territory.