Vrye Weekblad's (editor and founder Max du Preez) Anneliese Burgess' article about "Cape Town's kitty killers (sic)" once again reflects academic scientists' and media's near obsession with domestic cats and their alleged kills. They don't write about other pets, or wildlife kills of the ubiquitous moto vehiculum and that of urban development, eg the River Club site that even the city's own environmental impact study advised against developing. The academic paper in Global Ecology & Conservation Burgess cites as evidence of alleged cat kills of small wildlife, along with others, is based on UCT's Dr Rob Simmons' student Frances Morling's Master's thesis (listed as co-author) Cape Town’s Cats : Reassessing Predation Through Kitty-cams . I gather she is the third master's student he supervised, others Sharon George in 2010 and one Koebraa Peters, who all studied cat kills through small surveys; nothing new to say ...