A woman wants a change in the law after her cat was killed by a loose dog.
Jess Rozee’s cat Kitty was killed where she lives in Swindon - she said CCTV footage shows her pet being chased, chewed, shaken then left still just alive by two men with the dog.
Ms Rozee has started a petition that so far has 7,000 signatures on it, asking to make it an offence for a person’s dog to kill another pet, by prosecuting owners.
Lmfao. Bruh, ban mouse and rat traps then.
Cats are literally domesticated pets because humans in urban settings need to constantly kill mice and rats.
Those are selective…. A cat isn’t, not even close to being comparable.
Outside in a city? You mean rural, farms are rural. For urban you would use traps like you suggested…? Or does the same not apply back? You can use a cat indoors for your own personal use of course.
I mean areas where we store food and grain, which is everywhere humans live, not just farms.
There’s a reason cats are known even for going on old timely sailing ships. We have used them for micing and ratting forever, because we need to constantly kill mice and rats.
Cities these days have dedicated programs for killing rodents. It’s insane to be like ‘cats are destroying the mouse and rat population’ when they are thriving.
Ah yes, all enclosed areas where the cats don’t affect the wildlife itself…
Or as you said, traps!
You know that owners put bells on cats for a reason right?
And the point is that if we’re mass killing rodents, then cats doing so for us is not a problem.
in an urban environment, are you watching the animal, making sure it’s safe…ya know, being RESPONSIBLE for the thing? hell no, you aren’t when you let your cat roam free to do whatever. it’s abuse and neglectful. people in cities with free roaming outdoor cats should be charged, and banned from owning pets due to their abusive neglect.
If you put a bell on cat it’s not gonna be a very good exterminator anymore dude….
What point are you even trying to make here anymore?
The point being that people but bells on cats to prevent them from killing things when they’re outside.
The idea that every outdoor cat is slaughtering the entire bird population is an idea that a bunch of terminally online peopls repeat to each other to justify being indoor cats.
So they can negligent and let them roam free? Which is illegal in most jurisdictions regardless? Insects don’t care about a bell for one thing, and we already established that it’s not just birds, but insects and vermin the decimate populations of too….
For another, you are clearly entirely ignorant on a whole about all the issues they present if you’re still bloviating about birds.
So, one thing people like you who just decry people trying to educate others about the issues, is they also carry deadly diseases and crap everywhere. If they shit in a garden (which they do it’s giant litter box) they can contaminate that persons food.
So now that you are educated on the fact that there’s more than just “birds” that are the issue here, your gonna shut the fuck up or at the very least stop insulting people who are more educated than yourself…? Right…?
No, it’s not. It has in fact been explicitly legal for cats to roam free everywhere in the UK since 1971.
Please cite your source for the regulations of ‘most jurisdictions’.
Insects do in fact have senses of hearing, and we’ve already established that killing rodents is not a problem.
Lmfao, wash your fucking vegetables. Squirrels, groundhogs, racoons, bugs, and other nature exists in your garden too.
Says the guy spreading factually incorrect information about the UK’s laws around cats in a thread about the UK’s laws around cats?
Maybe you should educate yourself before trying to educate others.