From personal experience of dumped cats and a cache of sugar glider tails in a corner of a barn and a feral cat in residence just add strength to my belief that there should be a bounty paid on all cats not confined to a cage and the owners of “domesticated” moggies should confine them to escape proof runs. In this area Council Rangers, National Parks and RSCPA combined to attempt to reduce cat numbers on a property where it was alleged several hundred cats were being fed around the house and were spreading through the bush. We are forced to take steps to reduce wild dogs on our properties and yet we can have a fence to fence carpet of feral cats and no one cares.
Warren Thompson
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A big problem with dogs (even small ones) in some areas is that if they are not under control they can chase ground nesting birds away from their eggs, so that they may not hatch. Many people seem to feel that their dogs are doing no harm if they do not actually injure birds.
Susan Knowles sknowles46@aapt.net.au
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True, Peter. They may care but up in this neck of the woods they don’t do anything other than caring. That doesn’t cost the council money enforcing the Companion Animal Act. I’d rather see a little less caring and a little more action. Warren
Yes it is a problem but you are wrong to say “no one cares”
Philip
Sorry. Make that BIG dogs! Merrilyn
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Not my little dog, our sparrows scare her off.
Tony
Also, cats don’t attack people; dogs do. Dogs also attack and kill larger native birds and mammals. They are quite a danger. Merrilyn
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Perhaps that’s because cats don’t attack sheep.
I would have thought it was more important to increase the neutering rate than the confinement rate, but both would be good.
You didn’t say what area you’re from, Warren. Here in Victoria, cat registration is compulsory, and it’s generally much more expensive for unneutered cats. A good start, but I don’t know how well enforced it is.
I read (here?) that soon neutering will be compulsory in WA.
Peter Shute
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