Here in Australia it is estimated that cats kill 1.5 billion native mammals, birds and reptiles a year.
Yet there is no across the nation law that legislates cats be contained at night.
Local councils say they have no legal powers to restrict domestic cat movements.
While they dither, millions upon millions of our precious native critters are slain.
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This is from our local council.
The Council has a cat curfew in place between dusk and dawn. This means you must keep your cat within your property boundary at night. We recommended that cats be secured to your property at all times.
Your cat can be kept:
- in your yard where the cat is unable to leave your property boundary
- inside your property
- in a suitable cat enclosure
Do owners take any notice ? NO
Does the council do anything about it? NO
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lol that is funny .
Same here lots of cats and they most certainly take a toll on native birds .
Interestingly enough by Ever Glades the feral cat population has seriously declined due to pythons and would think in Australia carpet pythons do same .
I remember Steve Irwin would also mention feral cats and the problems they cause in Australia .
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Australia used to eliminate feral cats on a government level as far as officials did it and or gave out traps but not sure if anymore ?
New Zealand as you know still does it as have no choice
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Feral cats are still being culled. There are simply too many of them to eradicate them all.
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