Path: utzoo!censor!geac!maccs!riehm
From: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: birds threatened by cats
Keywords: cat prevention
Message-ID: <257498A5.4028@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 30 Nov 89 03:04:04 GMT
References: <791@wrgate.WR.TEK.COM> <1565@intercon.com>
Reply-To: riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm)
Distribution: usa
Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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In article <1565@intercon.com> ooblick@intercon.UUCP (Mikki Barry) writes:
>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

So cats are entitled to roam on my property!  According to whom?  Anyway 
the community that I live in has a bylaw stating that cats are simply not 
allowed to run free.  If one's neighbors insist on allowing their cats to
do so, then one can rent a live trap from the Humane Society and any cats
delivered unto them are retrievable by their owners *after* they pay the fine.
That's precisely what I am going to do next spring. I have asked my neighbors
to obey the law, but like the above correspondent, they think that cats have
some unalienable right to hunt and kill.  Perhaps others saw the article in 
Time (or was it Newsweek) last summer that said that a study in England showed
that the average neighbourhood cat killed about 200 birds and small animals
each year.  And we're supposed to put up with this?   I became enraged last
year when a nest of rabbits in our back yard was cleaned out by a neighbor's 
cat.  I must say that I really cannot see what would be wrong with killing such
a cat, but fortunately I don't have to do that because of our local bylaw.t


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