Cat leash laws?

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kalrith

kalrith

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AyashiKaibutsu said:
Those sound like strays. They wouldn't be leashed whether the law was passed or not, and I doubt deputizing an entire state to be animal control would work out in the end.
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One guy across the street owns about 4 indoor/outdoor cats and 4 strictly outdoor cats. About half the houses on the block have cat beds on their front porch. Even if these are strays, people have "claimed" them by feeding them. I say to stop feeding them, "and decrease the surplus population!"
 
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Blayze

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OutHouse said:
I hate free roaming cats, what is it about cat lovers that makes them go nuts. i dont know why people who have cats let them roam free in a suburban environment. this law sounds like a good thing.
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I would love to have a law like that here. Last year a few cats turned my front flower bed into a litter box. Had to replace several plants.

Of course the people in my neighborhood are no better with their dogs. There are several empty lots (unfinished development), and they have turned into "doggy bathrooms". Quite nasty, and the HOA does nothing about it.
 
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bignateyk

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Cat Jail? Are these people retarded? They aren't gonna have cops out looking for cats. They are just gonna treat them like strays, take them to the pound if they see them, and euthanize them.
 
Imaginer

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kalrith said:
I lived in a neighborhood with a LOT of cats. At any given time I could see 5-10 cats from my front porch :eek:. My flower bed became a litterbox, much like in the OP's story. There were dirty cat prints on my car. Cats crawled through a small gap at the bottom of my garage door, so I had to board it up.

No, I didn't worry about the cats killing me, but I wouldn't worry about a Yorkie killing me either. If it's against the law for a Yorkie to be loose, then I don't see the big deal about it being against the law for a cat to be loose.

If the law were written in a way that allowed homeowners to take "stray" animals to the pound if they're on their property, then that would eliminate the police involvement in the situation.
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I think this maybe the issue the law is addressing. If cats were to let run loose (outdoor cats), they tend to wander and by chance find another owner's cat that they let loose and free, breed, and have more cats around. Or the cat just plain leaves the owners that let them loose to begin with, breed, and the problem starts to build where you have a neighborhood with alot of feral cats.

Feral cats since they have a mind of their own will tend to wander to places you don't want them to. A past renter before I moved into the house had an opening in the garage vent that led a stray to come inside and pissed over a stored mattress that was inside.

It is not to restrain the cat's freedom but it is for the good of preventing situations like this to happen.

Edit, this assumes there is one or two caretakers that decide NOT to neuter their pets.
 
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sjwaste

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kalrith said:
No, I didn't worry about the cats killing me, but I wouldn't worry about a Yorkie killing me either. If it's against the law for a Yorkie to be loose, then I don't see the big deal about it being against the law for a cat to be loose.
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Actually, a loose Yorkie is exactly what's needed if there are free-roaming cats tearing up your shit. Yorkies are really, really good at cat control. I think they were originally bred to chase/kill vermin, but they'll gladly take on a cat any time.
 
Colt45

Colt45

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They should just ban cats. Miserable selfish creatures.

Had a stray when I was a kid. Spawn of satan, that thing.
 
JulesMaximus

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OutHouse said:
I hate free roaming cats, what is it about cat lovers that makes them go nuts. i dont know why people who have cats let them roam free in a suburban environment. this law sounds like a good thing.
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Look, I'm not crazy about letting my cat roam freely but keeping her inside all the time simply isn't possible. I've tried, she scratches at the door and meows constantly if she wants to go out and if she doesn't get her way she sits and waits for the right opportunity when someone opens the door and then she shoots out that door like she was shot out of a gun. It's almost impossible to keep her in all the time short of keeping her in a cage.

Believe me, my concern is more for her well being than anything else. We've lost cats to coyotes around here, I've personally seen a coyote on our street before during broad daylight.

My cat is fixed...as are all the cats I've owned, including the indoor cats. Fact is, you can raise cats to be indoor only but you have to do it from day one. If you get a cat that is used to being outside it is very difficult to break them of that. Cats want to hunt, it is in their nature to want to go outside and hunt.
 
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allisolm

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My county doesn't have a leash law specifically for cats but does say they are defined as public nuisances if they roam from the owner's premises without supervision by the owner. They can and do fine folks and/or scoop up the cat if someone complains (and they can mange to get the cat - good luck with that.)
 
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NetGuySC

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We recently updated our county ordinance to include all domesticated animals that are not on a leash. We write "animal at large" tickets for dogs, cats, chickens, horses, cows, pigs etc. If you own it, it must remain on your property, if it leaves your property it must be leashed and under your control. If not on your property and is not leashed the 1st offense is a warning, 2nd offense is a fine of $213.62, 3rd and subsequent offenses are a $265.50 fine.
 
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alkemyst

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NetGuySC said:
We recently updated our county ordinance to include all domesticated animals that are not on a leash. We write "animal at large" tickets for dogs, cats, chickens, horses, cows, pigs etc. If you own it, it must remain on your property, if it leaves your property it must be leashed and under your control. If not on your property and is not leashed the 1st offense is a warning, 2nd offense is a fine of $213.62, 3rd and subsequent offenses are a $265.50 fine.
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It's a sticky slope. There was a vehicle total in my town due to a calf roaming out to the roadway about 1 hour after the owner reported a lost calf.

Driver is trying to get them to pay, but so far there is not enough evidence to prove it was their calf.

sucks.
 
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sjwaste

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Triumph said:
What cats do while you sleep
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Ahaha, that was a good vid. My family's old cat used to do crap like that. Constantly shifting, wanting to find a good spot on the bed, climbing on you, etc.

We had a yorkie too, that slept in my parents' room. She picked up on the verbal cues when we were trying to get the cat to stop doing something. So I would just have to say that a couple of times, and she'd come running in the middle of the night to chase the cat away. I gained a whole new level of respect for small dogs with her.
 
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