In message , Alan
writes
In message , Sacha
wrote
On 2010-10-15 22:56:34 +0100, Baz said:

Sacha wrote in :
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In this instance, 'uncontrollable' appears to be interpreted as can't
be confined to one garden. Not as "is a ravening beast intent on
wrecking the lives of others by doing what comes naturally". IOW,
don't blame the cat. Or the wandering child.
Yes, just got a bit carried away.
Not controllable and uncontrollable have 2 different meanings.
Ok. I arent the sharpest knife in the box and have difficulty reading and
writing but I know I have misread the control bit. My mistake.
Baz

;-)) This subject certainly arouses strong feelings, doesn't it?
Perhaps there should be a move towards limiting the number of cats and
dogs per household according to the space for them or where the owner
lives. I suppose everyone would have a natural tendency to worry that
these are somewhat draconian measures but it's obvious that the few
people who really over-do the pet numbers cause a lot of annoyance,
worry and even distress to neighbours. Just the other day a woman who
was keeping 100 dogs had most of them removed. She was terribly
distressed. But her neighbours were driven nearly mad by the constant
barking from her property and finally, the authorities had to act. It
would have been kinder to *everybody* if that situation had never been able to develop.


The problem isn't the one person who has a hundred dogs/cats. It's the
50 cats per street all living in houses where the owners have decided
that they don't want a cat friendly environment and the front gardens
are concrete drive ways and the back gardens put down to flag stones or
decking. If you happen to be one of the few who decide that they may
want some flowers in the front garden then it becomes a toilet for
dozens of these animals.

Yesterday I weeded a little strip of soil adjacent to a hedge in my
front garden. This morning there is one pile of exposed shit and three
other soil disturbances where I bet there will be buried shit.

Unfortunately cat owners always fail to take responsibility for their
actions in keeping cats in inappropriate urban conditions and ,as seen
in this thread, laugh it off by saying if you don't want my cat in
your garden then it's you problem not mine as I cannot be bothered to
control my animal. I bet all of them have trained "their" cat not to
shit in the house unless it's in a litter tray, but will then deny that
a cat can be trained.

I'm surprised that readers of these forums who have young children are
not worried by the amount of cat shit in their own gardens. Do they
keep their children indoors to protect them from eating the fruit and
veg in the gardens that has been sprayed by every passing tom cat?

How do they protect them from bird shit?
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hugh
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I have said it, Unless it agrees with your own reason And your own
common sense." Buddha