I'm in Australia where many local councils have laws preventing cats from being off their owners' properties at any time, the same as dogs, introduced cats having wiped out millions of native species, some to the point of extinction. Many people build cat runs attached to the house, which allows the cat to come and go as it pleases but not all over the neighbourhood.
So you reckon letting your cat run loose to get attacked is being responsible, do you? Or run over on the road? Or yowl when people are trying to sleep? Or kill native animals and birds? Or piss on doorsteps and shit in people's gardens?
If you live in the country or on a farm it's one thing but in most cases cats are perfectly happy indoors or within a yard. If you don't neuter your cat that's why he roams and gets in fights.
I don't have a cat but I do live in the country and obviously that's exactly where cats destroy the most wildlife and I wouldn't have a cat or dog that wasn't neutered. Where I live there's actually a limit of two dogs and two cats per household and they have to be neutered after a certain age unless you're a registered breeder.
I'd love to have a cat again, but I can't afford a cat run so I don't have one.
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I'm in Australia where many local councils have laws preventing cats from being off their owners' properties at any time, the same as dogs, introduced cats having wiped out millions of native species, some to the point of extinction. Many people build cat runs attached to the house, which allows the cat to come and go as it pleases but not all over the neighbourhood.
So you reckon letting your cat run loose to get attacked is being responsible, do you? Or run over on the road? Or yowl when people are trying to sleep? Or kill native animals and birds? Or piss on doorsteps and shit in people's gardens?
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If you live in the country or on a farm it's one thing but in most cases cats are perfectly happy indoors or within a yard. If you don't neuter your cat that's why he roams and gets in fights.
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I don't have a cat but I do live in the country and obviously that's exactly where cats destroy the most wildlife and I wouldn't have a cat or dog that wasn't neutered. Where I live there's actually a limit of two dogs and two cats per household and they have to be neutered after a certain age unless you're a registered breeder.
I'd love to have a cat again, but I can't afford a cat run so I don't have one.
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Interesting. How do they enforce the laws? People here are supposed to get a dog license but nobody ever does.