Thread: Hunter Wants Open Season for Cats

I have 9 birdfeeders and three hummingbird feeders in my backyard...I also have 3 cats in my house. For many reasons, including those 12 feeders, our cats do not go outside. They don't try to escape when someone opens a door, they understand that they don't go outside.They spend a lot of time on the window sills in this room watching the birds and squirrels play in the backyard.

There are at least four cats who roam our neighborhood at will and I see them in our backyard on a regualr basis...one was sleeping outside the french doors when I got up this morning. I do not understand people who let their cats run wild and breed at will. I have a persian cat that i paid $600 for....we have one that came from the animal shelter and one that we got from a little girl in front of Big Lots.There's no way I'd let any of them run around outside to get hit by a car or attacked by a dog or other animal.

I spend as much or more money on birdseed as cat or dog food, there aren't many days that I don't sit outside and watch the birds and squirrels. I've spent a lot of time, money and effort attracting those birds. I've never found a dead bird or squirrel in the yard, I don't know which side of this issue I would be on if it came down to it.

Actually, birds can't always get food in the wild. People and development have seriously reduced the habitats of many wild animals. That's why people in Atlanta occasionally have black bears in their backyards.
As far as anyone suing someone for killing their pet cat....in most places the pet owner is breaking the law by allowing their pet to run around without a leash.......in that case, the pet owner could find themselves being arrested or possibly sued.

I'm not advocating killing cats...I am advocating people either taking responsibility for their pets or not having pets.

Originally Posted by janelle

The birds can get food in the wild anytime. People feed the geese and they stay around all winter pooping all over people's yards. People wanted to kill the birds but our city won't let them and they are not an endangered species.

I'm not for killing any animal and I keep my cats in unless I'm supervising them. The will never have a chance to kill a bird. But it isn't the cats fault that people dump them to survive on their own. They have to eat and they do not know they are eating endangered species.

Rescue groups have humane traps for cats and then they adopt them out.

Rescue groups have humane traps for cats and then they adopt them out

Unfortunatly most of those agencies are in urban settings not in the country where the problems truely are. Even if they were here they are so overtaxed that a lot of them won't take any new animals better yet hundreds at once. I now have about 30 cats that live on our property BECAUSE I can't kill them and I can't watch them starve. Fortunatly the coyotes(sp?) weed down the population. Unfortunatly it is spring and there are no less that 8 cats who are now pregnant. I suggest that all those in that area that are opposed to the new law take in and pay to have fixed 5 or 10 females. If not, then let the law pass and allow people who can take care of the problem do it.