[Misc] 24/7 Cat Curfew - Australia

[BadFish]

Geelong curfew closing in on cats

Geelong cats could soon follow their Surf Coast feline friends and be contained to their own property 24-hours a day. Local councillors will vote on new cat confinement orders on Tuesday night.

www.bay939.com.au

Where I live in Geelong, Australia, the council are voting tomorrow night on keeping cats on your own property 24/7. I have three cats and have recently successfully contained them to my house and garden (took a while to stop the little blighters escaping!).

I mentioned it to a few people in the UK who seemed stunned by the whole idea. I wondered what your thoughts were on the possibility of this ever happening over there?

 

[essbee1]

Impossible to police. Ridiculous idea.

 

[papachris]

What is the reason why they want to keep cats indoors?
For sure I couldn't keep my cat indoors. If he wants to go out he is crying. And I can't live with that!

 

[Insel affe]

Impossible to police. Ridiculous idea.

Your not wrong, I can see it being a catastrophe

 

[The Optimist]

What is the reason why they want to keep cats indoors?
For sure I couldn't keep my cat indoors. If he wants to go out he is crying. And I can't live with that!

I guess the reason is damage to local wildlife. No idea if this is a bigger problem in Australia than here.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

What is the reason why they want to keep cats indoors?

To try to lessen their genocidal impact on all the native fauna.

 

[happypig]

Reasons to do it :
Cats can devastate local wildlife (birds, mice etc).
Cats shit everywhere

Reasons not to do it :
"my little tibbles wouldn't like it"

 

[BadFish]

What is the reason why they want to keep cats indoors?
For sure I couldn't keep my cat indoors. If he wants to go out he is crying. And I can't live with that!

The main reason is because the decimate the native wildlife. But also because they roam onto other people's properties.

My main reason for containing mine was they kept fighting and losing and it was costing time and money at the vet.

We have had a night curfew for some time and my cried and carried on when we first did that but after a month of so they got used to it.

 

[BadFish]

Your not wrong, I can see it being a catastrophe

The aMEOWant of resources would be huge

 

[BadFish]

Reasons to do it :
Cats can devastate local wildlife (birds, mice etc).
Cats shit everywhere

Reasons not to do it :
"my little tibbles wouldn't like it"

I have to say, after a period of adjustment my three are pretty happy with the situation. I reckon even happier.

 

[Stat Brother]

Impossible to police. Ridiculous idea.

 

[Weststander]

As pointed out at Longleat, the primary destroyer of fauna is mankind. On a different scale to any animal.

 

[BadFish]

Impossible to police. Ridiculous idea.

Yes this is an interesting one. But surely it is better to have this in place for the people that will do it?

I am not a dog owner but it is clear to me that there are loads of owners who don't pick up after their dogs (or they put it in a back and hang it in the face - wtf is the thinking there??). Again it's impossible to police but on reflection I would rather have the law in place to encourage the responsible owners that not.

Wouldn't it be the same for this?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Thanks to town planning and architects, many houses have open plan gardens without walls or fences, so it is nigh impossible to keep cats within their own boundaries.

Luckily, my next door neighbour has cats too and both feline households think the houses are interchangeable. In fact, my late ginger cat Gus, was born next door and often used to pop in to see his Mum and siblings.
Twenty months ago, I adopted two rescue cats, one of whom likes to pop out through the cat flap several times a day, and one who will only go out in the garden if I am there too.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

As pointed out at Longleat, the primary destroyer of fauna is mankind. On a different scale to any animal.

As evidenced by the destruction of the countryside due to the now cancelled HS2.

 

[Eeyore]

I think the vote fur this elsewhere was passed by a whisker.

 

[BadFish]

I think the vote fur this elsewhere was passed by a whisker.

It was doing purrly before it clawed it's way back.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

The main reason is because the decimate the native wildlife. But also because they roam onto other people's properties.

My main reason for containing mine was they kept fighting and losing and it was costing time and money at the vet.

We have had a night curfew for some time and my cried and carried on when we first did that but after a month of so they got used to it.

Out of interest, are we talking stereotypically massive Aussie garden with enough room to raise about 15 young test cricketers to be in it, or something closer to what might be expected from the back yard of a terraced house in Doncaster?

Not that it really alters the fact that people shouldn't let their cats out to eat whatever passing animal takes their fancy. It's just it's an easier adjustment for the cat if they've got more space to be confined in.

 

[curly69]

Have 3 cats live in Brisbane would never let them out over here cats and other animals cause chaos to native wildlife. Our cats are very happy and don't need to go outside.

 

[Justice]

When you go into a house cat home it always stinks of cat piss which I think the owners get used to.