Should cats be made illegal!?

[cashman]

Yeh blame irresponsible owners fer cats doing what cats do= be a cat.another pearl of wisdom from Bamber.

[churchfcrules]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

I would've thought that cooping a cat up in the house 24/7 is cruel in itself. As for requiring every moggie owner in the UK to cover their garden in chicken wire, not really practical I would've thought!

depends if that is the regulation that was passed, then to be a "responsible" owner, you would have to comply with the regulations, i am sure we have many a regulation, that at the time people thought, yeah like that will happen

take smoking for example, if someone would have said in the seventies, you couldnt smoke in the pub, what sort of reaction do you think it would have got?

[cashman]

Then again maybe another poll? Should Kestrels be made illegal? after all they are a bird of prey.

[susie123]

Originally Posted by churchfcrules

possibly because cats are "domesticated", and wild birds aren't

if it killed your african grey, or percy the budgie, i think someone would be as livid as if tyke the bulldog ripped up mr tiddles

Quicker off the mark than me, I was going to post exactly the same thing.

[churchfcrules]

Originally Posted by cashman

Then again maybe another poll? Should Kestrels be made illegal? after all they are a bird of prey.

but they arent domesticated, are they?

or are we talking about falconry?

or are we just baiting other members?

[susie123]

Originally Posted by churchfcrules

i am guessing that down-in-that-there-lundun, where kes is, there will be multitudes of high-rise house cats who don't get out

Don't know about London, but I have a friend who lives in a high rise in Vancouver. Her cat died recently at 15, don't think he'd ever been outside.

[churchfcrules]

Originally Posted by susie123

Quicker off the mark than me, I was going to post exactly the same thing.

beatcha 2it

[cashman]

Originally Posted by churchfcrules

but they arent domesticated, are they?

or are we talking about falconry?

or are we just baiting other members?

Its called a sense of humour, summat thats by-passed a few.

[Wynonie Harris]

Originally Posted by churchfcrules

depends if that is the regulation that was passed, then to be a "responsible" owner, you would have to comply with the regulations, i am sure we have many a regulation, that at the time people thought, yeah like that will happen

take smoking for example, if someone would have said in the seventies, you couldnt smoke in the pub, what sort of reaction do you think it would have got?

That's a hypothetical scenario you're talking about. A new set of regulations to require owners to keep cats indoors or festoon their gardens with chicken wire is not even being discussed, never mind put forward as a possible solution. Therefore, as it stands at the moment and for the forseeable future, you can let your cat out and still be a responsible owner providing you look after it properly.

[churchfcrules]

depends on the humour i suppose!!!!

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by kestrelx

That's not nessararily so - I live in very built up area of London there are 3 cats at least in this area of about 100 sq metres. A pair of Robins built a nest in ivy and one cat set up camp below the nest and drove the Robins away.

We had a nest box in a tree and a Google Page Ranking of Blue Tits had chicks - two years on the run, again the same cat kept climbing up and drove the adults away causing the chicks to starve to death. The nest box has now been removed. So these birds weren't the weakest at all - just happened to be in the same vicinity of someone who happened to have a cat as a pet. That cat then took it upon itself to keep pestering the birds until they were scared away.

The then same cat killed a woodpigeon that had a nest in a small tree. These are birds that have no option but to nest in a garden where one particular cat is active. The owner by the way has no idea what her cat does or what it's capable of doing, just some stupid person who is not responsible for her pets destructive activities.

Life and nature is cruel - Cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds nests, their one chick hatches out first and kicks the other eggs out and they die. I love to hear a cuckoo in the woods in spring -don't you?

My friend set up a nest box in the corner of her garden last year and they could see into it from the conservatory -when the eggs hatched a pair of Magpies came and ate the fledglings -she had to tell her daughter the little ones had flown!

The problem is the exposure of the nest box to predators and that has a human hand in the choice of the site...

[churchfcrules]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

That's a hypothetical scenario you're talking about. A new set of regulations to require owners to keep cats indoors or festoon their gardens with chicken wire is not even being discussed, never mind put forward as a possible solution. Therefore, as it stands at the moment and for the forseeable future, you can let your cat out and still be a responsible owner providing you look after it properly.

so what about the original point, that cats dont need to go outside, its not acceptable to just throw your dog out and shut the door till it comes home, is it?

as a responsible dog owner you have to take measures to get your dog out

therefore as a responsible cat owner should you not have to do the same?

its only cats doing what they do?, when dogs get out on their own they only do what they do.

and if members of the public dont like what your animal does, why should they have to suffer it?

[cashman]

Personally i think this thread should be in anything goes, Cos i cannot conceive that Kestrelx was asking this question seriously, i reckon the thread was just a wind up from the start, I could of course be wrong n he is that stupid, but doubt it very much.

[churchfcrules]

Originally Posted by cashman

Personally i think this thread should be in anything goes, Cos i cannot conceive that Kestrelx was asking this question seriously, i reckon the thread was just a wind up from the start, I could of course be wrong n he is that stupid, but doubt it very much.

was that humour too?

[cashman]

Originally Posted by churchfcrules

was that humour too?

No n honest opinion.