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Keep cats inside

 

It saddens me to find lizards, birds and small animals laying dead on the ground, obviously been left there by a cat who has become bored when the lizard, bird or small Australian animal has stopped moving.

It is a fact that all species of living cats are placed in the family Feline, one of several families of carnivore, which is a flesh eating mammal.

The thing is that cats only kill, they don't even eat their pray.

They taunt their victims until they die and leave them there with chunks and scratches left as the cat's unmistakable mark.

Cats also carry fleas, lice, ticks, mites, ringworm, roundworms, hookworms, tapeworms and who knows what else.

Their matings are extremely difficult to control unless they are completely confined.

So when cat owners allow their cats to roam around the streets, especially at night time, how do cat owners expect to say they are "not responsible for all the feral and domestic cats that are killing our native birds, lizards and small animals".

There was a law passed to keep cats inside of night time.

I don't believe anyone has paid any attention to this law.

Some people don't care about how fragile an environment we have, even without cats killing everything they come across.

Cat owners, keep your cats inside and get two bells.

It isn't hard to do.

Cielle Mangold, Woy Woy