24 Hour cat curfews being proposed

[i-need-a-martini]

Yes Please!

Currently they are looking at the idea for areas close to conservation areas but, boy oh boy, would I like to see it extended to the suburbs! I am so over all the cats fighting, defecating, spraying in my backyard and terrorising my animals.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/push-for-24hour-cat-curfew-to-protect-native-a...

[debra9275]

I saw that this morning Joono- horrible!

[bushies.girl]

I dont pay any more to register my un desexed female, up to each council I think .....  I do, however, pay a council levy because I own more than 2 dogs

[bella_again]

I agree with it and I have 4 cats. All inside and I also have a purpose built enclosure.  The problem is people own several cats, they breed, breed again breed again and before long there are hundreds.  Some estimate if the kittens of one cat and their off spring live a full life and breed its in the 100 of thousands (not sure on how they gained those figures).

I have had a cat destroy the paint work on my new car, ruin my furniture outside, fight through the door with my furbabies. I even saved one that was starving and doing the right thing cost me hundreds with council failing to act and half the community scorning me for it.  Council and community attitudes are part of the problem up my way.  This an area where there is vast wild life and near national parks and snow fields, yet  the council do very little to follow up complaints.

My mad cat lady had 20 cats last count that was after several were removed.  I was told the other day about another household with well over 30 cats, many breeding and council does nothing despite the damage they cause to other residents. So yep totally for it and for tougher laws.  So sick of people claiming these are their babies but they can't be bothered desexing, registering or taking them to the vet. Oh and they let them roam on the highway to get run over!

[chameleon54]

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@lionrose.7 wrote:

Dogs should have a 24 hour ban as well, dogs kill bigger native animals then Cats.

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and Its not just native animals. I raise sheep on several properties 1-2km. from a near city, hills town. I often lose up 30 - 40 % of my lambs to both foxes and town dogs. The relevant government department wont let me bait the foxes in case some-ones town dog is wandering around amongst my lambing ewes. **bleep**  is that all about ???  

The dogs ( not foxes ) even drag down full grown ewes as they lamb, either injuring them terribly or outright killing them. One property borders a small national park. Dogs dumped by stupid owners often come out of the park in small packs to attack my sheep. Its all "too hard" for councils or government agencies so they do absolutely nothing. Any actions I might take to protect my stock are illegal, making me a criminal liable to prosecution on very serious charges. I have been warned in no uncertain terms, not to do anything that might harm the dogs and foxes. This warning came from the government department that is responsible for controlling weeds and feral animals. I appealed the warning to the highest levels of the department to no avail. ( based on being 1-2 km. from a town. ) Its just crazy stuff .

It is heartbreaking to have to put down a young strong ewe that has been mauled by roaming town dogs. If they are doing this to sheep, what are they doing to the local fauna ? 

[kilroy_is_here]

Dogs are also big problem as well martini but cats are a bigger problem as they don't respond to normal control methods.
I like the idea but the horse has already bolted, but it will help with other control methods

[safau22]

Yeah, I don't think cats, dogs, or really any animal other than humans are capible are understanding and reasoning this curfew thing, or any laws at all, other that the laws of nature and natural rights. Thats where people say that anarchy can't posibilly work. Humans are the only life on this planet that don't live by such a code and we, well, hows that going for us?

Imagine if we lived like the non human animals in the world arround us. Don't you think we would be better off as a human race. I imagine there might be maybe 2 or 3, maybe as much as 4 billion of us in the world instead of twice that at over 7 billion and rising fast. Where the only laws we need concern ourselves with would be natural law. Now theres a solution to the world's overpopulation and polution problem. Thing is, in a world where the smartest and strongest survive, a better quality of human being would exist. At the moment, our evolution is on hold. For the most part I think.

Cats are I think more than many other animanals are the boss of themselves, and while they may respect the natural rights of other cats, they are smarter than humans in that they don't create laws that infringe on their own natural rights. They get it, more than humans I think.

[nevynreally]

Gun lobby?

[safau22]

Not sure what you me by that reply if your directing it tward me. You speak of tools, like a hammer drill or saw, a tools to build, or a baseball bat, a golf club, tools for sports, I don't see any diffrence in tools used for defence, or offense.

Any tool can be misused, any tool can be used responsabilly.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@safau22 wrote:

Yeah, I don't think cats, dogs, or really any animal other than humans are capible are understanding and reasoning this curfew thing, or any laws at all, other that the laws of nature and natural rights. Thats where people say that anarchy can't posibilly work. Humans are the only life on this planet that don't live by such a code and we, well, hows that going for us?

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What the...?

I don't expect a cat or a dog to "understand a curfew". Their OWNERS Need to uderstand a curfew and keep their animals contained.

Your post is off topic in a major way.

[i-need-a-martini]

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@kilroy_is_here wrote:
Dogs are also big problem as well martini but cats are a bigger problem as they don't respond to normal control methods.
I like the idea but the horse has already bolted, but it will help with other control methods

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But as mentioned, there are already laws in place for dogs.

Also, cat eradication has been very successful in some areas with community support and a lot of money. Unfortunately, it can't be sustained because people refuse to keep their cats confined.