I beg to differ. I'll take you to a neighborhoods where there are dogs all over. I just got an email to be on the lookout for 2 $1,500 dogs that 'got loose' from the yard. I saw a dog got loose from a yard and get hit by a car... My neighbors dog just broke loose last week and ran after me to the mailbox...I froze as to not get bit and my neighbor came running to get him....common occurence. I'll show you how my neighbors are walking their dogs all day and they have plastic bags in their hand they never use. This is a nice neighborhood too. The sideswalks are full of poop...you have to be careful where you walk. This is everywhere. People in the country with land let their dogs loose to roam...it's natural. I have other neighbors with dogs that break loose all the time. One killed this homeless deaf cat...one friend of mine saw a neighbors dog carrying a neighbors dead cat in it's mouth walking down the street. So, please...get out more or wise up. I'll bet you love birds though..and using your logic, they should be eliminated from roaming too.....they poop on your car wrecking the paint and they leave tons of diseases...the most disease carrying thing there is to your backyard are the birds. Fox, raccon and possum are around every day too. Should I kill them??? A few cats around your neighborhood is nothing. It's what God wanted.
where i live it is illegal to let dogs run loose. yes it still happens, but it is illegal, and the dogs must be liscenced so that if the dog does damage, its owner can be found.
cats are uncontrolled as the rule, owners bring them in from outside the local area and let them roam free, and they do damage to other folks property.
cats should be treated as dog as far as leash laws and owner responsibility. we also have limits on how many dogs one can own, I’d like that applied to cats also. one crazy on the street with ten cats, and they roam and piss on everybodies property. I dont care if they have 1000 inside their house, as long as the smell stays inside!
yes I like birds (but dont feed them), but they are not destroying my property, humans are not bring them in in mass.
if you want cats to be all natural, then stop feeding them (after all you said they are hunters), stop giving them medical care. Stop the feral cats groups from trespassing to feed feral colonies (infestations)
bottom line is respect your neighbors property rights, by keeping your damn cats on you own property 100% of the time