Comments on: Cats on leashes – WWTD? http://naiaonline.org/blog/animal-policy/cats-on-leashes-wwtd/ For the welfare of animals, to safeguard the rights of responsible animal owners. Tue, 07 May 2013 17:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Joe Smith http://naiaonline.org/blog/animal-policy/cats-on-leashes-wwtd/#comment-18 Joe Smith Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:33:00 +0000 http://naiaonline.org/blog/?p=82#comment-18 I see no problem with cats being required to stay on their owner’s property.  Cats can be on harnesses/leashes and you can build fences that contain cats (cats can’t get over 45 degree angles I believe).  Not sure why so many cat owners seem to have the absurd notion that just because their cat can get over their fence that it is then okay to let it pester their neighbors.  Birds and some pet reptiles cannot be contained with a fence, but that is no excuse to let them roam free, no matter how harmless to people they are.

My mother’s roommate has cats, and it has always bugged me that she lets them outside to roam off the property when she knows the cats go into the neighbor’s yards to defecate.  I caught one cat defecating right underneath one of their open windows!  I’m afraid one day they’re going to bother someone who really does not like cats and will not make it home. 

]]> By: Kelpiemom http://naiaonline.org/blog/animal-policy/cats-on-leashes-wwtd/#comment-14 Kelpiemom Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:59:00 +0000 http://naiaonline.org/blog/?p=82#comment-14 Thoreau would probably sit on his front porch with a .22 and “discourage” cats from exploring the natural world. That being said, I don’t think people should shoot cats from their front porches (or anywhere) but it’s a dangerous world for a furry little animal like a cat and a really dangerous world for birds trying avoid becoming a meal/toy for said furry creatures. I keep my dogs from wandering the neighborhood eating and defecating in undesired ways and I expect my cat-owning neighbors to practice similar manners.

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