Animal laws / Law / neighbour dispute
April 28, 2023
The question is: “Can a cat or dog owner be punished by the local authority or sued by their neighbours for allowing their cat or dog to poop in their backyard frequently without cleaning...
January 16, 2023
The war against domestic and feral cats in Australia continues unabated. It looks like a war to me and in line with that analogy, the latest policy of a north-west Sydney council, Hornsby Shire,...
October 27, 2022
There is a tortuously tricky decision to be made about which owner is liable in terms of criminal behaviour and compensation under a civil claim after a cat wandered onto a next-door neighbour’s property...
July 3, 2022
This is a really tricky question although people tend to oversimplify it. First, what is too many cats? It is subjective. That’s the first hurdle but let’s say that without question your neighbour has...
February 25, 2022
NEWS AND COMMENT-CENTRE ROSA, CALIFORNIA: A man owns two aggressive dogs; one is a pit-bull and the other is a shepherd mix. They were allowed to roam freely in Santa Rosa and they attacked...
December 26, 2021
This page has been updated at December 26, 2021. It was first written in 2009. The first part of the page deals with the Beverly Hills regulations regarding the feeding and care of feral...
April 15, 2021
AUSTRALIA NEWS AND VIEWS: In certain parts of Canberra, there are cat containment ordinances which makes it compulsory to keep cats inside but in other parts they are allowed outside. In one of these...
March 22, 2021
There is a story today from Massachusetts, USA which convinces me that if a person wants to keep a large number of cats in their home a license should be mandatory. I have set...
December 17, 2019
Pet owners in Montreal have until January 1 to have their cats and dogs over six months of age microchipped. Dogs and cats, as well as rabbits, must also be spayed/neutered by the same...
April 11, 2019
“I just really like cats,” said McCreary. “A cat colony caretaker is just a person with a big heart.” – McCreary does not live in Kansas but Toronto, Canada, but the same attitude runs...
March 29, 2019
The Norwich City Council in New York State is thinking about imposing a fine on residents who feed feral cats. The council received a complaint from residents about the cats and so they are...
February 25, 2019
To understand how big of a problem a community has with the cat population, a good first step is for that community to take a survey. The city of Cornwall, Ontario admits they ‘dropped the...
December 20, 2018
Councils across America sometimes struggle with the decision to authorise TNR programs or go with trapping and euthanising. Knoxville City Council has just gone through that process and they passed 7-2, on first reading,...
July 6, 2018
SHAMOKIN DAM Borough (Snyder County), Pennsylvania: in this borough they have very recently introduced a new ordinance which states that if you are engaged in TNR programs and feeding feral cats you have to...
