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Facebook post falsely claims that World Economic Forum called for mass cat and dog killing

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Facebook post falsely claims that World Economic Forum called for mass cat and dog killing. This is fake. NEW AND COMMENT: This is a good example of fake news on social media, this time Facebook. A man called George Jadu Harley wrote a shocking post that you can see above and below claiming that "WEF wants to slaughter millions of pet cats and dogs to fight climate change".  RELATED:  What is the ‘carbon dioxide equivalent’ of a domestic cat ? It must have been the idea of mischief maker who had read stories about the carbon footprint of pet cats and dogs. They do have a carbon footprint and it is an issue in terms of climate change but the WEF did not promote the mass slaughter of pets. AFP Fact check puts things right. "The World Economic Forum is now calling for millions of cats and dogs worldwide to be slaughtered in an effort to reduce the 'carbon pawprint' they produce as a result of eating meat..." reads a Facebook post from December 13." "T...

My neighbour is feeding random cats in my garden. What to do?

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My neighbour is feeding random cats in my garden. What to do?  Image by Leng Kangrui from Pixabay . This is a problem discussed on the Reddit.com website, an excellent social media site which I'd recommend. It is a site with throws up some interesting cat problems. Correction: human problems about cats because as sure as eggs are eggs this is a human generated problem, and the cat is the innocent victim. They say the following: "For a while now I’ve been noticing this weird brown sludge in my driveway and couldn’t figure out what it was. Yesterday I came home and noticed a stray cat sat underneath my car with a pile of cat food, enough that someone must have placed it there. This morning the cat food was a wet soggy mess all over the garden, just like I’d previously seen. My boyfriend said he’s seen the cat chilling out underneath my car a lot recently too. I’ve started checking under my car every time I go to leave the house so I don’t run it over, but I just don’t like the i...