you want to own a cat in my town this is what you must do - no ifs or buts - take it or leave it [ Cats to be forced indoors and only allowed outside on a LEASH - Australian city cracks down on felines to protect native animals] - Upgoat

you want to own a cat in my town this is what you must do - no ifs or buts - take it or leave it [ Cats to be forced indoors and only allowed outside on a LEASH - Australian city cracks down on felines to protect native animals]
submitted by paul_neri to Australia 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 05:39:27 ago (+22/-1) (www.dailymail.co.uk)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10733327/Canberra-cats-banned-form-outside-without-leash.html

Cats will only be allowed outside their homes in Canberra if they are on a leash in new rules to protect Australian native wildlife.

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[ - ] o0shad0o 5 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 06:45:47 ago (+5/-0)*

I wonder if they're going to put the rabbits on leashes too.

Edit: I guess no one's been reading about the insane rabbit plague happening in 'Straya. The comment was pointing out that native wildlife is already hopelessly disrupted so this is a silly unnecessary measure.

[ + ] UncleDoug

[ - ] UncleDoug 6 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 08:07:35 ago (+7/-1)

Rabbits don't eat wildlife and shit in your garden at night.

[ + ] chrimony

[ - ] chrimony 9 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 09:54:26 ago (+9/-0)

Rabbits will EAT your garden on top of shitting in it. Seriously, you should put a fence up if you're worried about pests.

[ + ] observation1

[ - ] observation1 2 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 09:52:26 ago (+5/-3)

People always say this but why do they say it. I bet you've never actally had a random cat shit in your garden.

Over my lifetime, I've stepped in 100x more dog shit than I've ever seen cat shit outside.

They're secretive. They go in the bushes, not in a fucking garden.

[ + ] SteppingRazor

[ - ] SteppingRazor 4 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 10:34:11 ago (+5/-1)

Stray dogs can’t come shit in my fenced in yard, a cat can.

[ + ] observation1

[ - ] observation1 -2 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 10:58:34 ago (+2/-4)

There it is again.

Its never happened to anyone but the prospect of it happening is the talking point.

[ + ] CHIRO

[ - ] CHIRO 4 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 11:09:37 ago (+4/-0)

See my comment below. It has happened. The 'cat shelter' lady caused a handful of cats to make my former neighborhood a home base. They wandered everywhere, and they didn't exactly use the sidewalks. They slink around up near houses and landscaping for cover. Cats can easily become a nuisance if they aren't controlled, as in, just making shelter and food available and letting them roam freely.

[ + ] ruck_feddit

[ - ] ruck_feddit 1 point 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 15:43:54 ago (+1/-0)

We had one of those diagonal to our backyard when we lived in town. General nuisance, attacking my yard birds, shitting and pissing all over. I killed all of them. So, so many.

[ + ] ruck_feddit

[ - ] ruck_feddit 3 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 15:42:12 ago (+4/-1)

What are you talking about? When I lived in town, cats would scale my fence and shit and piss in my wife's potted plants and also attack my ducks. I killed so many of them the jews should make a movie about it.

[ + ] observation1

[ - ] observation1 0 points 3 yearsApr 21, 2022 05:08:40 ago (+0/-0)

The only thing real in this story is the shit, in your brains.

[ + ] ruck_feddit

[ - ] ruck_feddit 0 points 3 yearsApr 21, 2022 05:09:59 ago (+0/-0)

I don't remember you being a retard or else I don't get the joke.

[ + ] observation1

[ - ] observation1 0 points 3 yearsApr 21, 2022 05:14:39 ago (+0/-0)*

Perhaps you don't realize which thread you replied to or which alt you logged into?

Cats dont shit in potted plants. So now I know you're a liar, makes me wonder if you have a wife. How do you even have ducks , in a matter that cats can get to them but they can't fly away? everything about your story is suspiciously convenient. I guess you live in the one place in the world where cats shit in potted plants.

Your story is like the 40 year old virgin trying to explain tits. You don't know what you're talking about.

[ + ] ruck_feddit

[ - ] ruck_feddit 0 points 3 yearsApr 21, 2022 05:21:29 ago (+0/-0)

You're really invested in cats being saints, faggot. I killed so many, and they deserved to die.

Continue thread

[ + ] SteppingRazor

[ - ] SteppingRazor 3 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 11:24:46 ago (+4/-1)

When did I say it never happened? I’ve seen cat shit all over my yard.
Shove your downvotes up your ass, faggot.

[ + ] diggernicks

[ - ] diggernicks 0 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 20:13:11 ago (+1/-1)

Internet points dont matter

Gb2reddit you gen z/millenial niglet

[ + ] observation1

[ - ] observation1 -1 points 3 yearsApr 21, 2022 05:10:30 ago (+0/-1)*

For what it's worth, I didn't down vote you but I can see how you would think I did.

Much like how you imagine cats are lurking outside haunting your ferns.

Cats don't shit in the yard, they shit undercover in the bushes where it's safe and they have cover.

[ + ] bobdole9

[ - ] bobdole9 2 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 11:17:22 ago (+2/-0)

They also try to bury their shit. At least all my farm cats did.

[ + ] CHIRO

[ - ] CHIRO 1 point 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 10:55:51 ago (+1/-0)*

I don't love cats, and I don't totally hate them. Every cat I've owned has been a kitten some asshole dumped near my property (have had multiple people in cars stop, drop a box of kittens off, and drive away). This has made my relationship with cats a love-hate one.

On the one hand, I've always kept them outdoors (barn cats). They are one of the most reliable pest controls you could imagine: they kill rats and snakes like it's their job. But they also kill birds, and I like birds.

I think as a mature adult you've got to just give some things up to the brute facts of nature, there's usually nothing that's purely good or purely bad (other than dogs, dogs are pure good if they aren't pitbulls).

I don't enjoy the way cats kill things though. They aren't like dogs that will just snap a kill's neck. They toy with their victims for hours and make a game of it.

I could easily see why a municipality might put in some ordinance about cats 'in town'. In the sticks, it should be up to a property owner, but in denser neighborhoods, I can understand an indoor rule. I once lived in a suburb where a bleeding-heart single mom across the street made all kinds of 'winter shelters' for stray cats. It attracted many cats to the neighborhood. Each homeowner had their dogs properly contained, but the cats meandered through the neighborhood at their leisure. Not only can I count on the fact nobody was getting these things fixed or de-wormed or checked for fleas, but they would 'play' the neighborhood dogs like a fucking piano, making the dogs bark like crazy wherever they went. This sounds like a metaphor for the west.

[ + ] RedBarchetta

[ - ] RedBarchetta 0 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 11:00:43 ago (+1/-1)

A well fed cat will play with its food. Its learning how things work. Want the cats to be efficient, cut their food supply off.

[ + ] CHIRO

[ - ] CHIRO 1 point 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 11:05:51 ago (+1/-0)

That makes sense. But it also seems that a hungry cat is likelier to wander, and I didn't necessarily want half-feral animals either. There was one cat in a group of five I recall that still wandered despite being well-fed. He would disappear for days at a time and turn back up looking like he'd been on a bender. The problem was he'd get wolf worms and shit like that, and I wasn't exactly rounding up five cats bi-annually for vet appointments, so it turned into feline 'field medicine'.

Tradeoffs. There are always tradeoffs.

[ + ] RedBarchetta

[ - ] RedBarchetta 0 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 10:59:11 ago (+0/-0)

You want to walk that one back? Because they are WAY MORE destructive to a garden vs. a Cat.

[ + ] FalseRealityCheck

[ - ] FalseRealityCheck 1 point 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 09:47:56 ago (+1/-0)

They're going to come up with some reason you can't have rabbits because they are a staple of too many preppers (along with chickens). "No food for you, goy!"

[ + ] Monica

[ - ] Monica 0 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 10:18:58 ago (+0/-0)

rabbi-flu

[ + ] dulcima

[ - ] dulcima 1 point 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 11:28:02 ago (+1/-0)

Pet rabbits are illegal in Queensland.

[ + ] ruck_feddit

[ - ] ruck_feddit 0 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 15:45:57 ago (+0/-0)

Can you raise meat rabbits?

[ + ] dulcima

[ - ] dulcima 3 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 21:47:24 ago (+3/-0)

No, not at all.

Rabbits have done huge damage to Australia, more than cats. Foxes are a problem too. There are foxes round where I live, and this is a built up area with fast disappearing gardens (due to Chinese expansion.)

[ + ] UncleDoug

[ - ] UncleDoug 0 points 3 yearsApr 21, 2022 06:53:57 ago (+0/-0)

I read that cats are disappearing due to Chinese expansion.

[ + ] ruck_feddit

[ - ] ruck_feddit 0 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 22:06:28 ago (+0/-0)

I just went down the rabbit hole on... rabbits. You guys have hundreds of millions, but I have a solution! Here, the coyotes eat all the rabbits. I put in a call to my coyote guy, so expect a crate full within the week. If that doesn't work, we'll send crates of roadrunners and Fudds. Those will definitely take care of your rabbit and coyote problems.

[ + ] dulcima

[ - ] dulcima 2 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 23:53:52 ago (+2/-0)

We even have a wild camel problem in the Northern Territory, from when the Afghan traders who were here let loose their camels.

Incidentally Australia's first Islamic terrorist attack was committed by Afghans. They shot up a train and killed a number of people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Broken_Hill

Australia has always had a feral foreigner problem but no one does anything about it because it's rayciss.

[ - ] Wahaha 3 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 08:49:11 ago (+3/-0)

Guess Australian cat owners now have to buy guns and genocide the wildlife by themselves. Once it is completely gone the cats won't be a problem anymore.

[ - ] gimpyoldman 2 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 08:59:45 ago (+2/-0)

Back in the 80s worked with a painting crew in NZ for awhile. One of the jobs was for the Dept. of Conservation (they had just changed from Forest Service). We went up in the forest to paint some buildings for week, DOC gave us a .22 rifle and told us to shot any cats we saw.

[ + ] Belrick

[ - ] Belrick 1 point 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 18:28:43 ago (+1/-0)

I shoot feral cats on sight.
Love trained pet cats.

Never conflate the two.

Also remember that 100 years of doc care nz native anioare still endangered.

Fuk they suck at their jobs

[ - ] beece 1 point 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 09:02:32 ago (+2/-1)

You guys can borrow a few coyotes, they suck those cats right up around here.

[ + ] Deleted

[ - ] deleted 0 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 12:36:09 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] JustALover 0 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 08:39:24 ago (+3/-3)

Oh boo hoo, cat owners. You want to own an animal that can destroy whole ecosystems on its own for fun, then you're going to have to keep better control of it than just fucking leaving it outside for 18 hours a day by itself.

Fuck you and fuck your cat masters.

[ - ] germ22 0 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 10:35:14 ago (+0/-0)

I understand the reasoning, and even as a cat owner, more or less support it.
But i vaguely remember that some place in Australia banned all cats, and shortly after they had a massive mice infestation, destroying crops and spreading disease.

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[ - ] deleted 0 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 12:37:33 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] SteppingRazor 0 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 10:33:33 ago (+1/-1)

I’d be ok with this. Cat owners that let their pet run wild are shitty people, unless it’s used on a farm to eat vermin.
If my dog can’t run free, then neither should your cat. Cat owners never pick up their shit outside either.

[ - ] Blackpowerwhitepowder 0 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 11:18:44 ago (+0/-0)

To be fair Domestic cats carry the parasite responsible for toxoplasmosis which is deadly to kangaroos

[ - ] Artificial_Intelligentile 0 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 11:30:32 ago (+0/-0)

GOOD, cats are invaders, kill them like the muslims

[ - ] dwb3 0 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 11:35:59 ago (+0/-0)

Fuck cats. Disgusting creatures. All cats should be forced to go back where they came from.

[ - ] RobertJHarsh 0 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 13:10:38 ago (+0/-0)

Whatever. Cats are smarter than the fucktard animal control officer.

[ - ] EAT_MY_ASS_FUCKFACE -1 points 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 10:16:09 ago (+1/-2)

Cats are niggers.

[ + ] TomMacdonald

[ - ] TomMacdonald 1 point 3 yearsApr 20, 2022 13:44:14 ago (+1/-0)

Are you maroonsaint

[ + ] EAT_MY_ASS_FUCKFACE

[ - ] EAT_MY_ASS_FUCKFACE 0 points 3 yearsApr 22, 2022 22:19:28 ago (+0/-0)

No, but he & I do agree on at least one thing.

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