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From: ooblick@intercon.com (Mikki Barry)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: birds threatened by cats
Keywords: cat prevention
Message-ID: <1565@intercon.com>
Date: 23 Nov 89 19:16:34 GMT
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Reply-To: ooblick@intercon.UUCP (Mikki Barry)
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Cats are entitled to roam on your property.  Shooting them (poisoning them,
hurting them, trapping them, etc.) is cruelty to animals and fines and/or
jail terms are the usual punishment.  You would also be civilly liable to
the owner of the cat.

I suppose that the poster who advocates killing cats would do the same if
a neighbor's child wandered onto his property?  Sure, it's your property.
Blow the kid away, right? :-(.

Regardless of how you feel about cats, killing them is against the law.

Mikki Barry