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Originally posted by Brian Ellis
And what about cat owners behaving irresponsibly? We have a neighbour who has 11 cats, at this time, all of them fertile and have never seen a vet, potentially vectors of all sorts of diseases, transmissible to dogs and humans, including ringworm and tapeworm. These animals use our garden as a public toilet and the males spray our gates and walls, so that the smell is terrible at times. They caterwaul day and night.
Our dog has the free run of the garden but spends most time indoors. Whenever he sees or hears a cat, he goes berserk. He actually wants to play with them, but the cats don't realise this when a 25 kg black monster runs towards them at a goodly rate of knots and they tend to run a few metres ahead of him at a faster rate of knots until they are outside his reach, when they turn round and metaphorically thumb their noses at him. On the odd occasion he has cornered one, he has always come off worst with scratches on the nose, but that does not stop him.
I almost wish he would make an example of some of them, so that the rest respected our property.
We have to pay an annual licence fee plus have paid for microchipping and registering, as well as castration (he is a multipedigree animal with no breeding potential). He is also treated correctly at the vets with vaccinations, deworming, FrontLine treatment. The bloody felines next door do not require a licence or registration and the only expense is in food and they breed like rabbits: the young are expelled into the wild after weaning, to cause more havoc.
I maintain that cat owners should be treated on the same basis as dog owners and, until that happens, I don't consider that cats have any rights, other than not to be the target for cruelty. As it is, we have no legal redress against the cat owner, other than to yell, "Bloody Cats" at every relevant opportunity when we know he is within earshot. I wish I knew a surefire way to keep them away without any risk of harming them or our own dog.
Our dog has the free run of the garden but spends most time indoors. Whenever he sees or hears a cat, he goes berserk. He actually wants to play with them, but the cats don't realise this when a 25 kg black monster runs towards them at a goodly rate of knots and they tend to run a few metres ahead of him at a faster rate of knots until they are outside his reach, when they turn round and metaphorically thumb their noses at him. On the odd occasion he has cornered one, he has always come off worst with scratches on the nose, but that does not stop him.
I almost wish he would make an example of some of them, so that the rest respected our property.
We have to pay an annual licence fee plus have paid for microchipping and registering, as well as castration (he is a multipedigree animal with no breeding potential). He is also treated correctly at the vets with vaccinations, deworming, FrontLine treatment. The bloody felines next door do not require a licence or registration and the only expense is in food and they breed like rabbits: the young are expelled into the wild after weaning, to cause more havoc.
I maintain that cat owners should be treated on the same basis as dog owners and, until that happens, I don't consider that cats have any rights, other than not to be the target for cruelty. As it is, we have no legal redress against the cat owner, other than to yell, "Bloody Cats" at every relevant opportunity when we know he is within earshot. I wish I knew a surefire way to keep them away without any risk of harming them or our own dog.
You know, cats are very nice and easy to deal with comared with Rats..
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