Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 1013281)

I would've thought that cooping a cat up in the house 24/7 is cruel in itself. As for requiring every moggie owner in the UK to cover their garden in chicken wire, not really practical I would've thought!

Originally Posted by churchfcrules (Post 1013266)

possibly because cats are "domesticated", and wild birds aren't

if it killed your african grey, or percy the budgie, i think someone would be as livid as if tyke the bulldog ripped up mr tiddles

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 1013289)

Then again maybe another poll? Should Kestrels be made illegal? after all they are a bird of prey.:D

Originally Posted by churchfcrules (Post 1013282)

i am guessing that down-in-that-there-lundun, where kes is, there will be multitudes of high-rise house cats who don't get out

Originally Posted by susie123 (Post 1013290)

Quicker off the mark than me, I was going to post exactly the same thing.

Originally Posted by churchfcrules (Post 1013291)

but they arent domesticated, are they?

or are we talking about falconry?

or are we just baiting other members?

Originally Posted by churchfcrules (Post 1013287)

depends if that is the regulation that was passed, then to be a "responsible" owner, you would have to comply with the regulations, i am sure we have many a regulation, that at the time people thought, yeah like that will happen

take smoking for example, if someone would have said in the seventies, you couldnt smoke in the pub, what sort of reaction do you think it would have got?

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 1013259)

That's not nessararily so - I live in very built up area of London there are 3 cats at least in this area of about 100 sq metres. A pair of Robins built a nest in ivy and one cat set up camp below the nest and drove the Robins away.

We had a nest box in a tree and a Google Page Ranking of Blue Tits had chicks - two years on the run, again the same cat kept climbing up and drove the adults away causing the chicks to starve to death. The nest box has now been removed. So these birds weren't the weakest at all - just happened to be in the same vicinity of someone who happened to have a cat as a pet. That cat then took it upon itself to keep pestering the birds until they were scared away.

The then same cat killed a woodpigeon that had a nest in a small tree. These are birds that have no option but to nest in a garden where one particular cat is active. The owner by the way has no idea what her cat does or what it's capable of doing, just some stupid person who is not responsible for her pets destructive activities. :egged:

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris (Post 1013295)

That's a hypothetical scenario you're talking about. A new set of regulations to require owners to keep cats indoors or festoon their gardens with chicken wire is not even being discussed, never mind put forward as a possible solution. Therefore, as it stands at the moment and for the forseeable future, you can let your cat out and still be a responsible owner providing you look after it properly.

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 1013300)

Personally i think this thread should be in anything goes, Cos i cannot conceive that Kestrelx was asking this question seriously, i reckon the thread was just a wind up from the start, I could of course be wrong n he is that stupid, but doubt it very much.

Originally Posted by churchfcrules (Post 1013301)

was that humour too?