I certainly don’t want cat leash laws, I am for as few laws as possible- this whole “problem” is absurd. There is in fact no problem here, unless truly aggressive dogs are chasing the cats on the cat owners property- then it’s time for a neighborly chat, not a new law. Cats have been chased by dogs for two thousand years, it’s no big deal- probably fun for both. Sometimes the dog get’s scratched, sometimes the cat gets bit, but that’s probably half the fun. Yeah, sometimes dogs get blinded, sometimes cat’s get killed, but they are at heart wild animals so what do you expect. If the cat owner is that concerned about it, then maybe they could leash their cat, or keep it in the house, but who actually cares? I grew up with cats and dogs, and the cats got torn up far more by other cats- not to mention natural predators who even occasionally killed cats- than by dogs. Either way it was the cat’s own fault for leaving the property, and we would never have a grievance with a neighbor even when their dog killed the cats. Now if their dogs came on our property and were behaving aggressively, that would be a big problem. Back then they would get a warning or two, then the dogs would be shot. We had livestock, and our own dogs and we nor anyone else in the area would tolerate aggressive dogs running on their property. Note that I grew up in the country on quite a few acres.
Perfect answer to the problem.