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Quoted: Maybe if your cat was on a leash or confined to your home you wouldn't have this problem.
Sorry, but I think people should control their pets. I've never understood why people think it is okay to just let their cats roam free. Then it is those same people who get all upset when their precious little pet ends up missing or dead.
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Cat's aren't like dogs, they don't maul people. The don't group up in packs and go around terrorizing neighborhoods, injuring people, and killing all sorts of pets including other dogs. They also know who their owners are and stay away from strangers. The only problems cats have are getting hit by cars or people like 1/4 of the people on this site that take pleasure in trapping and killing pets or putting out things like antifreeze to intentionally kill someone's animal. If you don't like a cat in your yard, get a dog...let them figure it out.
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People who hate cats roaming free seem to fall into three general categories.
(1) people who are fed up with some neighbors cat shitting in their flower patch and knocking over their garbage cans at night
(2) people who are somehow angry because cats kill birds and cute little fuzzy gerbils and stuff like that
(3) people that just hate cats, and use their roaming nature as an excuse to kill them if they are on "my property"
Personally, I have sympathy for (1) since nobody should have to put up with someone elses' animal inconveniencing them. If the owners refuse to control a pet that is causing damage or inconvenience to others' property, then it is vermin and open season (much as I dislike the killing of pets - and peronally I woudl trap it first and WARN the owners or take it to the pound)
I don't understand (2) and I have a healthy dislike for (3)
I never let my fat and spoiled cats out of the house, because they are so dumb they'd undoubtedly get run over by a car or eaten by a horned owl or something, and because I don't want neighbors to have to deal with MY animals - AND, because I don't them to want to run into some sadistic kid from category (3) who gets a boner from setting cats on fire or something.
So I agree that people SHOULD control their pets, but also agree that roaming cats doesn't usually present the kind of inconvenience or even danger that roaming dogs do.
Just my 2 cents.