Posted on 07/16/2008 7:36:48 AM PDT by fings
Obnoxious cats laughed at us when dog leash law fever spread throughout this country’s cities, but now we canines are the ones chuckling as the first kitty leash law shot comes across the bow. If it passes, cats can say goodbye to freelance pooping and hello to being watched while doing their business.
(Howard Feiner is so annoyed with the cat droppings in his yard, he has logged the kitties’ leavings and put flags up to mark the spots. He has done this for a couple of reasons.
He’s in court with his neighbor...
(Excerpt) Read more at boknowsonline.com ...
On the “plus” side...
A law like this MAY have prevented that African lion from running rampant in Colorado yesterday.
This guy needs to get a hobby, or to get laid, or something....
We have a cow leash law here in Alabama.
Adlai Stevenson was a liberal, but he got one thing right:
Famous Cat Bill Veto STATE OF ILLINOIS EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT SPRINGFIELD, April 23, 1949.
To the Honorable, the Members of the Senate of the Sixth-sixth General Assembly:
I herewith return, without my approval, Senate Bill No. 93, entitled, “An Act to Provide Protection to Insectivorous Birds by Restraining Cats.” This is the so-called “Cat Bill.” I veto and withhold my approval from this Bill for the following reasons:
It would impose fines on owners or keepers who permitted their cats to run at large off their premises. It would permit any person to capture or call upon the police to pick up and imprison, cats at large. It would permit the use of traps. The bill would have statewide application— on farms, in villages, and in metropolitan centers.
This legislation has been introduced in the past several sessions of the Legislature, and it has, over the years, been the source of much comment— not all of which has been in a serious vein. It may be that the General Assembly has now seen fit to refer it to one who can view it with a fresh outlook. Whatever the reasons for passage at this session, I cannot believe there is a widespread public demand for this law or that it could, as a practical matter, be enforced.
Furthermore, I cannot agree that it should be the declared public policy of Illinois that a cat visiting a neighbor’s yard or crossing the highway is a public nuisance. It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming. Many live with their owners in apartments or other restricted premises, and I doubt if we want to make their every brief foray an opportunity for a small game hunt by zealous citizens— with traps or otherwise. I am afraid this Bill could only create discord, recrimination and enmity. Also consider the owner’s dilemma: To escort a cat abroad on a leash is against the nature of the cat, and to permit it to venture forth for exercise unattended into a night of new dangers is against the nature of the owner. Moreover, cats perform useful service, particularly in rural areas, in combating rodents— work they necessarily perform alone and without regard for property lines.
We are all interested in protecting certain varieties of birds. That cats destroy some birds, I well know, but I believe this legislation would further but little the worthy cause to which its proponents give such unselfish effort. The problem of cat versus bird is as old as time. If we attempt to resolve it by legislation who knows but what we may be called upon to take sides as well in the age old problems of dog versus cat, bird versus bird, or even bird versus worm. In my opinion, the State of Illinois and its local governing bodies already have enough to do without trying to control feline delinquency.
For these reasons, and not because I love birds the less or cats the more, I veto and withhold my approval from Senate Bill No. 93.
Respectfully, ADLAI E. STEVENSON, Governor
Veto Messages of Adlai E. Stevenson, Governor of Illinois, on Senate and House Bills Passed by the 66th General Assembly of Illinois. Springfield: State of Illinois, 1949.
(pulled from Wikiquote)
Howard also wants "you kids" to "get the heck off my lawn", "turn down that Jigaboo music!" and "for God's sake, pull up your pants!"
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
I’m voting for “this guy needs to get laid!”...geez....
I love cats, have several and foster them for rescue organizations and nothing frosts me more when people have a free range cat. It’s like they’re too lazy to use a litter box. Sure, cats want to play outside, so do dogs, it doesn’t mean we should let them.
I admit I have a “free range kitty”. But my neighbors seem to like him. My next door neighbors, who would Never have a “dirty pet” in their fastidious home, get to have a cat by proxy. He visits.
He also is a great wandering exterminator. Yes, he brought me a bird once. But he brings me a mouse or rat every other day. Yesterday he dropped off a giant rat on my porch.
The people (and especially the cat) in this story are lucky that this guy took the steps that he did instead of using other methods of eliminating the crisis.
I’m voting for the guy needing to get a pellet gun and a shovel.
Sorry.. to FINISH my thought and post...
There was a picture, albeit grainy and hard to make out, but it sure looks like a lion to a lot of us. Also, there were tracks that were found that are 6” or more in width.
My daughter’s neighbor actually SAW the animal and he said it was a lion... so who knows?
of course they’d have to find kitty.
Shovels work in all kinds of soils in counties far and wide.
“...huh?...I dunno...I haven’t seen it...I wuz thankful the neighbor finally got manners, cuz I figgered the neighbor took that kitty inside, a few days back while I wuz outta town...camping.”
Our kitty loves to go outdoors. We didn’t want to find her in pancake form in the street, so we trained her to a leash. Now she jumps on the chair and paws at her harness when she wants to go out.
Yet...I’ll bet you feed the birds....LOL. God has a special place for those of you who purposely harm an animal out of hate.
Good for a laugh! LOL =^..^=
If someone has a bird feeder, it is OK for a neighbor's cat to use it as it's own private hunting lease?
When a person defends his property against predatory animals, is it done out of hate?
Time is running out on the notion that your cat can have free access to anything it wants. It's not just common sense, but it is very neighborly to keep your cat where it belongs, on your property. It is also best for the health of the cat, since you know that no judicious action will be taken against it if it isn't killing other peoples pets on other people's property.
There aren’t all that many house cats running around with 6” or greater paws.
Mountain lions, either, for that matter.
I wonder if he has hired a surveyor to precisely map the GIS coordinates of the flags.
I’ve heard some women are into that sort of thing.
Im all for a cat leash law as long as I get the bandaid concession!
Don’t tase me, bro!
Don’t forget to buy stock in companies that make broad-spectrum antibiotics.
My 3 kitties have never been outdoors
We have mountain lion, coyote, owls to name a few that roam our neighborhood. I always sigh when another missing cat sign goes up on the mailboxes. Newbies to this area never learn.
Of course that does not mean my viking kitties would not take on the coyotes if given half a chance. I keep them in to protect the coyote population! ;-)
I dunno about mtn lions. The one’s I’ve seen get pretty big. They can have good sized paws, and prints I’ve seen are close to that size.
Thing is that picture does not have a tail like an African Lion. It has a tail like a puma. And the animal is way to “fuzzy”....
LOL
Classic.
Birds carry over 60 diseases yet you cry over a cat poopin in your yard....SMART! There are tons of homeless cats that are looking for a kind person to feed them and maybe give them shelter. I know how you feel about that....just kill them right? Heartless. How many cats have you killed?
Well Said! My neighbor created a cat habitat in his backyard but the fence means nothing to the cats.
My dogs are mostly house dogs, so they do not mess in others yards or bark incessantly. They do however, wake me up when they hear the cats fight. Population control is in effect.
Free range kitties have substantially reduced the incidence of Giant Canada Geese in this area and now our sidewalks are no longer green and slimey.
The funny thing is my wife saw the same cat when she was walking the dog and it wasn't a neighbor's cat, it was skinny and needed food. So now she feels guilty. If I find that cat it will be like the roach motel, they check in but never leave unless we find an adoptive family.
I seriously don't believe cats kill 5 million birds a year. Think of it as improving the breed by culling the week.
Funny you should mention bird feeders. My wife has one she likes to look at and has caught more than one cat at the bird smorgasborg. I just laugh, I love cats and if I can catch them then they live inside our house until we adopt them out or we keep them.
Since I dislike birds intensely, I don’t loose sleep over them becoming a cat’s dinner. It’s not like they’re killing bald Eagles but I would never kill a bird either.
One more thing, idiots who let their house cats out are well, idiots. I live in the Foothills where there are lots of predators so you would think people would make the connection with their missing cat and the wonderful wild back to nature experience they had when they saw a Coyote crossing the road.
Kitty not happy.
LOL
There is no way that I could leash my cats. They would go nuts, I already tried that. However, they both are fixed and don’t leave the yard. Plus they have all their shots.
The dogs around here run loose and my cats defend their yard. The dogs are scared of them.
If you can leash a cat....WOW! Give me some tips..hehehehehe
"Birds carry over 60 diseases yet you cry over a cat poopin in your yard....SMART!"
I don't think the egregious act was cat poop, but rather large amount of Dove feathers, blood and bloody skeletal remains of these birds all over a pristine landscaped yard.
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