The Park staff are working hard on foxes, goats and rabbits. But cats are much harder to deal with.
Kathy found 4 kittens in a shed at the back of her place at Halls Gap. I have seen the mother but we haven’t managed to catch her yet. The shopkeepers in Halls Gap are constantly catching cats around the shop, despite it being a “cat free zone”.
Please, if you live near the Park and have a cat, make sure it is secured at night. The Catnip cat park was invented locally as a way of humanely confining cats to protect local wildlife. My daughter has had hers now for eight years in Alice Springs, Denver USA and Canberra and her two cats are very content. The Catnip factory is in Stawell.
Our small mammals are struggling. Don’t help breed feral cats to kill them off. Also you can report sightings of feral cats within the Park to the Park office.