Australian suburb authorities to engage in cat herding

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Australian suburb authorities to engage in cat herding

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An east Melbourne suburb will soon make it illegal for cats to roam free from their owner's home under a new 24-hour cat curfew.

Cats will be required to remain inside residential private properties, but can venture into the front and back yards and garages, in a bid to keep felines off the streets.

Knox City Council is encouraging cat owners to create cat enclosures or cat-proof fences before the local government law is enforced in October.

7News understands the Knox City Council will issue warnings in the first six months of the curfew, but after that will impose fines if a cat is spotted outside a property.

An AU$91 fine will be handed down if it's a first warning, but owners could be fined up to AU$545 for continuous breaches.

“Either we’d have to build another fence to section it off or we’d have to cover the whole backyard, which would be expensive,” local cat owner Charlotte Jensen told 7NEWS.

Knox City Council will also conduct random door knocks to check for unregistered pets, with an AU$330 fine for failure to do so.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/20 ... capes.html

The theory behind it seems sound.

I have my doubts about the realities involved in enforcing this curfew though!
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Would require a special team of pussy patrollers i'm guessing...

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Good to see government addressing the most pressing issues of our times
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I am surprised and delighted that you consider the extinction of species as one of the most pressing issues of our time, Nemo.

Cat are probably the single most damaging factor, apart from habitat destruction, in Australia holding the world record for extinctions in modern history - continuing right through until.... tonight.

Covid and China are just blimps compared with cats.

Australia must control its killer cat problem.
Australia is teeming with cats. While cats make great pets, and can bring owners emotional, psychological and health benefits, the animals are a scourge on native wildlife.
Cats kill a staggering 1.7 billion native animals each year, and have played a major role in most of Australia’s 34 mammal extinctions. They continue to pose an extinction threat to at least another 120 species.


Pet cats kill 83 million native reptiles and 80 million native birds in Australia each year. From a wildlife perspective, keeping pet cats contained 24/7 is the only responsible option.
It’s clearly possible: one third of Australian pet cat owners already keep their pets contained all the time.

https://theconversation.com/australia-m ... ugh-154931

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Human beings are by far the most dangerous species of animal for wildlife globally, so it seems reasonable that we should not be allowed out at night when we hunt animals and engage in reproduction :sex:

Seriously, aren't cats supposed to keep the mice away ?

Mouse apocalypse on the march across NSW, Qld, SA and Victoria, Australia, damaging crops and invading homes (videos)
Feb 6, 2021
Since early 2021 much of regional Australia is experiencing a mouse plague.
The whole district smells of mice.


Release the cats !
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This ^^ is our problem. This ^^ has until now stopped any action similar to the courageous stand Knox City Council has finally taken on our behalf.
The cat lobby. Make no mistake they are killing us.

Written and co-signed by the 120 animal and countless bird species currently listed as being on the edge.
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Anchor Moy wrote: Sun Jul 04, 2021 12:49 am Human beings are by far the most dangerous species of animal for wildlife globally, so it seems reasonable that we should not be allowed out at night when we hunt animals and engage in reproduction :sex:

Seriously, aren't cats supposed to keep the mice away ?

Mouse apocalypse on the march across NSW, Qld, SA and Victoria, Australia, damaging crops and invading homes (videos)
Feb 6, 2021
Since early 2021 much of regional Australia is experiencing a mouse plague.
The whole district smells of mice.


Release the cats !
Well it's clear the cats prefer other wildlife other than mice so stop them roaming, totally agree with this idea. Cat owners are no different to dog owners, keep your pets at home
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Nice thought, AM, but cats do not prevent nor control mouse plagues in Australia.
We are talking billions of mice here, caused by the nature of the climate combined with massive broad acre grain growing and its associated vast spillage.
Think about it. They are not Siberian tigers who need 147 kilos of dripping bloody flesh (or whatever) every day. Even if they were sabre toothed tigers, Australia's ten million (!! yes) cats could not cope.

Sure, a good ratter can be useful in controlling local rodent populations - but they are generally far more damaging to the local wildlife populations than even the most environmentally damaging old style poisons.

For all Australia's other imported pestilences - feral rodents are not usually a huuuge problem except for some specific wildlife types. Certainly they are not as all-round nuclear catastrophe as our friendly fiendish Felix.

And besides, like Atst says - What self respecting aussie cat/wannabe lion, would go for a poxy grey feral rat when it can dine out on a prime-cut endangered Numbat, eg
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Wish they would do this in PP , dog and cat piss in all the alley,stair ways leading up to apartments , gross.
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See!
The bloody thing wants to come inside anyway
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