Do your cats kill birds?
Would you like to stop them?
Our sonic collar, CatAlert™, stops cats killing birds. This will also protect you and your cat from contact with bird flu.
Learn how to stop your cat killing birds...


The CatAlert™ sonic collar can now be bought online. It costs £19.99 for each collar. SHIPPING is FREE! to ANYWHERE in the WORLD.
To buy (one or more) CatAlerts, you can :

Please visit our tesimonials page

 A new section "Cats in Art" has been added to the website. Another section called "Birds in Art" has just been added as well...
 


Results of a second trial of CatAlert by the British Trust for Ornithology (23 June 1999) indicated that predation on birds was cut by two thirds. View the results!

A new April 2002 trial of CatAlert was announced by the The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds using 150 of our sonic collars more.

7 April 2003
US Patent for CatAlert
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30 December 2002
A Sad Tale - The Stephen Island Wren
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27th January 2000
Progress report on the effectiveness of the CatAlert Collar
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Send us a digital picture of your cat wearing his CatAlert collar. Use an attachment to an email and add some comments.
A free collar will be sent to the owners of all cats whose picture appears on our website.

20th November 2005
CatAlert Mark II is now available again for sale. It can be switched on and off by its owner. The Mark II can be made to stop beeping automatically when it becomes dark or it can be switched to beep both night and day. Price details are available in the shop.

We have left the bell on some collars because the RSPB reported that bells also helped to reduce predation by cats on birds.  

Willana continues to develop a collar that will stop beeping automatically when the cat comes home. We have abandoned the system based on mains hum and are now developing a device that responds to radio signals. We will keep you posted on how this development is progressing.

 

30 March 2005
Grant of European Patent to CatAlert
The European Patent Office has granted a patent Number EP 1 091 644 B11 to Willana Lifesciences covering the countries, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands

Have a look at our links. Both domestic and foreign links (e.g. French, Portuguese, Australian, etc..).

 


  
  

 

Tiny sports his CatAlert collar

 

  Farewell to Ellie

03 March 2008

We just want to thank you for CatAlert. Without it we wouldn't have had a chance to say goodbye to Ellie. She didn't come home on Monday evening, and we only found her after a long search when we heard her bleeper. 

She was hidden under a bush, behind a wall. There was no chance we would have found her had she not been wearing her CatAlert. She was injured and although the vets have done their best for her we have just said goodbye.

Without you guys we'd still be wondering where she was. 

Thank you.
Ruth and Tony

Rare Birds Threat in Cape May, N.J.

Aug 4, 2007 4:53 pm US/Eastern

In most other cities, cats killing birds would not attract much attention. But this is not most other cities. 

So far this year in New Jersey, cats are the prime suspects in the deaths of three endangered birds, including plovers. With only 115 pairs of piping plovers left in the state, each death is a big deal to environmentalists.

 

Experts confirm Asian bird flu outbreak

Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, UK

03 February 2007 18:42

UK Government scientists have confirmed that the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu found at an East Anglian poultry farm after 2000 turkeys died is the highly pathogenic Asian strain.

Deadly H5N1 may be brewing in cats

New Scientist 24 Jan. 2007

Bird flu hasn't gone away. The discovery, announced last week, that the H5N1 bird flu virus is widespread in cats in locations across Indonesia has refocused attention on the danger that the deadly virus could be mutating into a form that can infect humans far more easily.

Study: Flu Could Kill Millions

December 21, 2006 11:11 p.m. EST

Komfie Manalo - All Headline News Correspondent

Cambridge, MA (AHN) - A study made by researchers from Harvard University said that a global flu pandemic could kill 62 million as they warn of a repeat of the 1918 pandemic which claimed the lives of over 50 million.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005932465

 

Bird flu Bird Flu strikes in Scotland

April 6, 2006

LONDON: The lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in a Mute swan found dead in a small Scottish coastal town last week, Britain's Sky television reported yesterday, quoting sources.

 See article

 

VITAL SIGNS
 
By Kristen Gerencher, MarketWatch
Last Update: 10:20 AM ET July 10, 2006

 

 

April 06 2006

PanAfrica: Bird Flu Risk From Cats 'Overlooked', Warn Scientists

Leading flu researchers have warned that cats could be playing an unrecognised role in the spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus, and have criticised international organisations for ignoring this piece of the puzzle.

See Article

 

11 March 2006

Can cats spread avian flu?

According to an article in Nature (9 March), a cat found near a bird flu outbreak in poultry in Cipedang, Indonesia, was infected with a form of H5N1 that had genetic changes similar to those seen in samples from infected people, but not in samples from birds.