I want a leash law for cats in my city?

Question

who specifically do I contact?

I keep posting this question but I'm getting no helpful answers. PLEASE and thank you!

Ok I don't care if it gets passed but I just want to know WHO to contact. That's ALL i need so I can get started on this business letter. It's my homework!!

Answer 1

Hi there...your local animal control agency as well as your city mayor and local legislators are the people are who you would contact.

Here's a leash law for cats petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/CatLeash/petition.html

Some communities have enacted a leash law for cats so it is only a matter of time when other cities will follow suit.

Here's one city that has a cat leash law:
http://catsinthenews.blogspot.com/2006/10/cat-leash-law-jensen-beach-martin.html

Answer 2

Contact your city councilor. If you don't know who that is, go to City Hall and ask for contact information.

As for one person's comment indicating that cats don't do well on leashes: Ha. My cat came to my family as a stray and we turned her into an indoor cat. When I moved out and took her with me, I put a harness and leash on her a few years later. She had no problem wearing the harness around the apartment for a few days before I took her outdoors.

The key with taking a cat outdoors on a leash and harness is to let the cat go where it wants, within the boundaries you set. You can't walk a cat like you would a dog. Sometimes you might spend a 30-minute outing standing within a 20-foot radius. Other times you might be on the go throughout a 30-minute outing.

Answer 3

Good luck. First I want you try to get a cat to wear a harness with a leash. I've had cats all of my life and have yet to get one to walk on a leash.

Answer 4

I understand your feelings. I don't think that you will ever get a leash law for cats anywhere and there is no city, county, town, or state that will ever even address this issue.

My neighbor used to have over 28 cats that would hang out at his house because he would feed them. Then the cats would come in my yard and dig holes to crap in and also spray thier disgusting pis* all over everything from my front door to inside my car if I forgot to roll up the windows.

I called my local animal control about the stray cats on my property and they told me outright that they do not do ANYTHING about stray cats! Dogs, yes, but not cats!

They did say that I could come to thier office between 1 and 3pm on tuesdays and pick up a cat trap. Then bring the cats back to them and they would do something with them.

What a crock of crap!

First I talked to my neighbor and tried to get him to control his disgusting cats. He said they weren't his and he couldn't control them.

So I just looked up "Cat Traps" on the internet and built one of my own. I trap and kill any cat that comes around without a second thought.

I guess I could have gotten a big mean dog to handel the situation, but I didn't want a dog either and I knew it would be a court case waiting to happen if my dog would kill his cats.

Oh sure it's illegal for me to kill the cats, but unless they actually have proof that I killed them, they have no case! And they will never catch me doing it.

My advise to you is to do the same. Just set up the trap and kill them in a place that nobody can see. And dispose of the dead cats at night down a dark road somewhere. The buzzards will thank you !

Answer 5

I don't think you will ever get a leash law passed, but in most places you are allowed to use live traps to catch cats that come onto your property.

Answer 6

Unfortunately, I do not think they'd accept that. Due to the fact there are so many outside & feral cats. You can do what you can (legally) to keep them out of your yard, but leash laws for cats is something I do not see working out.