Should cat owners keep their pets on their own property or let them fowl other peoples gardens etc.?

Question

Shouldn't the cat owners take measures to stop them wandering. If your neighbour is a wildlife lover why should they have to take steps to stop someone else's cat coming into their garden? Cats will kill for the fun of it

Answer 1

When you stop letting your fowl fly into my garden I'll keep my cat's inside.

Answer 2

As an owner of six cats, I can say that cats should be able to go outside and get some fresh air, same as dogs, but the leash law applies to kitties as well! Legally, you can't let your cat run rampant in neighbouring yards. Cats can be destructive to property, and if they are messing up your neighbours yards, you neighbours have the right to file a complaint with your local Animal Control establishment classifying your animals as a nuisance. If you live in the States, Animal Control will most likely give you three business days to resolve the problem. If you can't get your kitties indoors or limited to your property alone in that menial timeframe, then you can have all of your animals removed permanently from the home. I can understand this since it applies to destructive kitties, but I feel sorry for the ones that are falsely accused. Like I said before, I own six cats and believe they should be able to roam freely, but the law states otherwise.

Answer 3

Yes, they should if you have (nicely) explained your problem to them. Depending on where you live, there may be a leash law for cats same as there is for dogs. There is in my city. It is not enforced unless someone complains. Check with your local animal control, they may be able to provide a humane trap to place on your property, and take Kitty away. The owner would have to pay an impound fee to get Kitty back, and might be more responsible. Personally, my cats are kept indoors all the time - I love them too much to take a chance of them getting run over by a car, injured or killed by a dog, etc. And they are perfectly happy.

Answer 4

The law recognises that cats, as opposed to dogs, are free-ranging animals and as such do not take well to being confined to a house or garden. No-one is obliged by law to restrict the movements of their cat but a dog should be under control at all times.

Many cats, despite their nature, are kept as house-cats and are never allowed outside. This might seem the perfect solution for neighbouring gardeners but unfortunately it isn't for the cat. A large number of house-cats develop behavioural problems due to being denied a more natural life.

Unlike dogs, cats never chose to be our companions - we chose them. The happiest cats are the ones that can get out and about, do some hunting and socialising then choose to come home when they want to.

I have had cats all my life and had the odd dispute with neighbours, and the man who bred pigeons whose young birds were great sport to my cat, but I would rather not have a cat than keep one permanently imprisoned.

Dogs are different - they seem perfectly content to lie around the house and then take me out for my exercise a couple of times a day.

Answer 5

hi there. basically your cat can go outside and do it's own thing in the day and then it comes inside before dark, and stays in for the rest of the night. cats should have collars on with bells to protect wild life, yet even some cats can out smart them no matter how many bells you put on them. but these days people don't like cats roaming there places, when there pooing everywhere in there nice garden. if you can afford it , much better to have your own enclousure in you back yard. then they can't bother any one, and most of all desex you cats. there more likely to stay around and sleep in the sun, then wander off. hope this helps.

Answer 6

till somewhat presently I had 2 cats, both one in each and every of whom were rescued as kittens. regrettably one gave up the ghost at age 18 a even as in the past. My cats have loose rein over the residing house and backyard, yet I have continuously discouraged them from searching. Over the 18 years that i have lived with cat/s, there have been 2 birds and some mice presented to me. yet another 2 birds were got here upon alive and flying round interior the residing house, stuck with techniques from me and released outdoors. I stay in suburban Melbourne, Australia. My the front and reduce back gardens and my suburb are finished of fowl existence, and cats. i do not imagine the cats mostly reason that a lot problem. although, if I lived in a non-suburban section i ought to likely not have taken interior the cats as i does not opt for to be to blame for them taking interior sight organic world. and that i ought to by no skill purchase a cat from a breeder or save. As a facet note - fish are meat too.

Answer 7

This is true but cats really are a law unto themselves and it is very difficult for people to keep them restricted to a certain area. They are so agile that fencing would be unlikely to hold them in without blocking out all your light!
You must be very careful how you feed the wildlife visitors to your garden. Don't encourage them to feed in situations where they can be easily caught. This is dulling their natural instincts that keep them safe from cats and other predators.
My cat regularly catches town pigeons and mice and rats from my neighbours garden so they can do a service too!

Answer 8

since you are obviously not a cat owner, why say that cats will kill for fun? They don't. Mine bring in 2 or more rats a day from the field opposite. They eat what they kill. Cats are by nature predators. They kill and eat animals which are prey animals. Nature makes sure that bigger animals eat smaller ones. It's the natural order of things. If a cat didn't catch them, a hawk, owl, weasel would. Rats eat nestlings and eggs from wild birds, they also catch and kill mice. BTW ITYM foul not fowl. Fowl are chickens and the like. In most cases, when cat haters complain abnout cat turds on their lawn, it is often hedgehog turds since they look the same but cats bury their poo in soft soil and hedgehogs tend to poo in the middle of lawns etc.
How would you propose that a cat owner keeps the animal in their own garden since they are not trainable like dogs and evolved to roam and hunt?

Answer 9

How on earth is a cat owner supposed to keep their cat from going into peoples gardens???

If u don't want a cat fouling in your garden then there are measures that u can take to prevent this !!

Answer 10

Prey tell how you propose to keep a cat from wandering onto other peoples property, unless the cat is restricted from any outside access at all?

Under UK law they are classed as free spirits and therefore it is not the owners responsibility to keep the cat under control and off other people's property.

Answer 11

My cats are house cats, so don't go anywhere near anyone's garden, or wildlife. It's hard to keep "moggies" inside unless they have been kept inside from birth, what do you suggest cat owners do? Chain their cats up?