What affects us affects cats
I am a fan of domestic cat licensing and regulation. I am a fan of using the law to force an improvement in domestic cat caregiving. This is to improve animal welfare and reduce the number of feral cats in the world. There is far too much feral cats suffering. Singapore is ahead of …
A cat rescue organisation, Half The Way Home in Woodstock, Cherokee County, USA, temporarily housed in a cottage, has had its licence revoked by the Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDA) because a volunteer, Brittany Satterfield, who worked at the rescue said she was completely horrified by the conditions and that ALL the cats were …
A serval was wandering around the streets of Reading, Pennsylvania, USA and picked up the a local rescue organisation, Animal Rescue League of Berks County (ARL), who re-homed the cat at a specialist wild cat rescue center.
At present, I think you could say with some confidence that cat licensing won’t work, or does not work sufficiently well but attitudes may change. This is because not enough people are willing to comply with it and local authorities are unable, for practical and financial reasons, to enforce licensing. Therefore non-compliance would continue …
This story illustrates the great difficulty in enforcing a law which creates an obligation on a cat owner to register her/his cat. Currently, throughout America (and Australia), there are discussions about how to minimise unwanted cats through better cat ownership. One proposal is to make it obligatory to obtain a cat license through registration. …
We are discussing the USA here. Calgary does it. Winnipeg is thinking about it. What do cat owners think about it? I am certain that most cat owners don’t like the idea of licensing cats because it curtails their freedoms (nanny state) and adds an extra expense to living. The anti-cat license lobby say …
