Scottish Ministers Weigh Controversial Cat Ban and Curfew to Protect Wildlife

[impulse]

Just spitballing trolling here, but maybe they're working on the principle of removing the food source so as not to attract the inflatables?

[norfolkandchance]

Come on. There are far more important issues in Scotland to be sorted out. For instance getting a second vote on Independence.

[fredwiggy]

2 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Well no one is disputing the killing of wildlife done by cats, some folks just think its worse than others. If you think its so bad, keep you cats inside to keep them from the carnage you brag about.

You disputed the amount of damage, so I showed where it's more than you realize. I've known what cats are capable of all my life, and being a reader of what the big cats do, small cats are just a tiny relative that does the same amount of damage and would do the same to humans if they were bigger and were hurt somehow. I did keep my cats mostly inside when I had my own home, but they were let out to do their business.

[harryviking]

About time someone put a halt to keep these predatory animals. They kill everything small they can find! Killing millions of lizards and birds joust for fun! These cats are killing machines and should be banned. 

[Bkk Brian]

9 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

If you've had cats that just stay indoors, you wouldn't see what they do as hunters outside. I and all of my family and friends, who all own cats, saw this for all our years in the US. If you can keep your cats off the counters, they still walk everywhere after using the litter box, which means bacteria all over the house, which is then touched by humans and transferred to everywhere you touch. Best to let them outside.

they still walk everywhere after using the litter box, which means bacteria all over the house, which is then touched by humans and transferred to everywhere you touch. Best to let them outside.

 

Do your cats wipe their feet before they come in from outside then? I have two indoor cats now because of keeping them safe, but the cats I had in the UK were allowed out. There is no difference to bacteria.....lol

[fredwiggy]

Just now, harryviking said:

About time someone put a halt to keep these predatory animals. They kill everything small they can find! Killing millions of lizards and birds joust for fun! These cats are killing machines and should be banned. 

Not banned, just kept under a modicum of control. They belong here as do the big cats. When left to over populate, even deer cause many problems.

[Yagoda]

2 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

You disputed the amount of damage, so I showed where it's more than you realize. I've known what cats are capable of all my life, and being a reader of what the big cats do, small cats are just a tiny relative that does the same amount of damage and would do the same to humans if they were bigger and were hurt somehow. I did keep my cats mostly inside when I had my own home, but they were let out to do their business.

Well you let the killing machines out then because you were too lazy to clean up, and its not worth the bandwidth to argue for ego needs over the number of endangered lizards killed by Fuzzykins, especially when I firmly beleive in indoor catlife.

[fredwiggy]

Just now, Bkk Brian said:

they still walk everywhere after using the litter box, which means bacteria all over the house, which is then touched by humans and transferred to everywhere you touch. Best to let them outside.

 

Do your cats wipe their feet before they come in from outside then? I have two indoor cats now because of keeping them safe, but the cats I had in the UK were allowed out. There is no difference to bacteria.....lol

Going from the litter box to a kitchen counter is a little different than going outside and walking through grass for awhile before coming in but I see your point. I only have one cat here who stays outside because he was born there. When I live in the states, they are fixed and are inside/outside cats so they aren't out as long to prey on animals and birds.

[Bkk Brian]

Just now, fredwiggy said:

Going from the litter box to a kitchen counter is a little different than going outside and walking through grass for awhile before coming in but I see your point. I only have one cat here who stays outside because he was born there. When I live in the states, they are fixed and are inside/outside cats so they aren't out as long to prey on animals and birds.

Really? because you watch their every move and what they have done before coming in, ok

[fredwiggy]

1 minute ago, Yagoda said:

Well you let the killing machines out then because you were too lazy to clean up, and its not worth the bandwidth to argue for ego needs over the number of endangered lizards killed by Fuzzykins, especially when I firmly beleive in indoor catlife.

I had indoor cats all my life until I moved here, so lazy I wasn't. Just letting them go outside to do their business keeps the house cleaner and smelling better. It has nothing to do with ego pointing out stats anyone can find online.

[fredwiggy]

Just now, Bkk Brian said:

Really? because you watch their every move and what they have done before coming in, ok

No, my cats that went outside killed as I mentioned. I'm not disputing what they do, in fact agreeing with what they're capable of because I saw it myself, and read up on the cat species as a hobby.

[scottiejohn]

42 minutes ago, Grumpy one said:

The Scots need to protect the wee baby haggises somehow 

I believe that the plural of Haggis is actually called Haggi and only the anticlockwise ones are in danger!

PS;  Anticlockwise Haggi have two equal length left legs and one longer right leg and run round the hills in an anti clockwise direction, when they don't fall over, as a result!

[Bkk Brian]

2 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

No, my cats that went outside killed as I mentioned. I'm not disputing what they do, in fact agreeing with what they're capable of because I saw it myself, and read up on the cat species as a hobby.

I never disputed whether they killed or not..........

[Woke to Sounds]

More radical leftist agendas based on fairy dust.

 

Wikipedia is far from unbiased.

 

Anyone remember their first gambit at this lunacy during the early Corvid years when they were gung ho to ban pets because they spread Corvid?

 

Thought not.

[Oliver Holzerfilled]

The hard core environmentalist versus crazy cat lady struggle is real.

[madone]

1 hour ago, fredwiggy said:

Wiki is right on in everything. They posts facts and are one place to go where opinions aren't used. They go by studies.

 
You are a comic genius

this is almost as good as your claim that Americans don't have accents

[Ben Zioner]

5 hours ago, JonnyF said:

I can't stand cats, but this is absolutely ridiculous.

Hmmhh, hope you know that people who prefer cats have higher IQs than those who prefer dogs, Even red somewhere that their love making is of a much higher standard too. I can see why.

 

https://pvhsociety.ca/preferring-cats-higher-intelligence/#:~:text=It's true!,in Wisconsin analyzed 600 students .

[JonnyF]

7 minutes ago, Ben Zioner said:

Hmmhh, hope you know that people who prefer cats have higher IQs than those who prefer dogs, Even red somewhere that their love making is of a much higher standard too. I can see why.

 

https://pvhsociety.ca/preferring-cats-higher-intelligence/#:~:text=It's true!,in Wisconsin analyzed 600 students .

 

I think we all know what type of guys prefer cats. 😉

[Bday Prang]

5 hours ago, JonnyF said:

I can't stand cats, but this is absolutely ridiculous.

 

What is it about governments that they feel they can control every aspect of our lives? Cats on leashes? 😄

 

Next they'll be complaining that the rat, mouse, pigeon etc. populations have exploded. 

Exactly, what next some sort of official cull?

[Bday Prang]

4 hours ago, harryviking said:

About time someone put a halt to keep these predatory animals. They kill everything small they can find! Killing millions of lizards and birds joust for fun! These cats are killing machines and should be banned. 

All predators are killing machines.  including lizards, should they be banned too     ridiculous 

[Bday Prang]

4 hours ago, LennyW said:

Is it April 1st already!!!

Its fools day every day in scotland

[Grumpy one]

5 hours ago, scottiejohn said:

I believe that the plural of Haggis is actually called Haggi and only the anticlockwise ones are in danger!

PS;  Anticlockwise Haggi have two equal length left legs and one longer right leg and run round the hills in an anti clockwise direction, when they don't fall over, as a result!

Good to see we have a Haggis expert on hand to set me straight

[scottiejohn]

1 hour ago, Ben Zioner said:

Hmmhh, hope you know that people who prefer cats have higher IQs than those who prefer dogs, Even red somewhere that their love making is of a much higher standard too.

Whose lovemaking is higher the cats or their owners?

[JonnyF]

2 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

Exactly, what next some sort of official cull?

 

Maybe import some Haitians?

 

[Snackbar]

Forget insects, more meat on a feline, some of them Bangla strumpets r a bit gristly imo.

[Tiger1980]

And while the SNP government are contemplating this law, they are doing nothing about the fact that Scotland has the highest % of drug related deaths in the whole of Europe.

[harryviking]

7 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

All predators are killing machines.  including lizards, should they be banned too     ridiculous 

That was just so dumb!🙄

[herfiehandbag]

 I can see problems with a curfew - I have long experience of cats and have never ever known one which can tell the time!

 

Enforcing it would require significant resources, a special Scottish Government Agency would be required - can I suggest a suitable "up to date title" - "Pussy Scotland"!

 

I do hope that the Scottish Government will be left alone to get it's claws into the problem, hopefully Westminster will resist the temptation to play cat and mouse with such tomfoolery!

[still kicking]

14 hours ago, Thingamabob said:

Given the sad sight of maimed and slowly dying birds underneath them I suggest wind farms should also be banned. At least, when a cat catches a bird, the bird's pain is relatively short-lived.

Yes Donald 

[Maybole]

This is a totally fraudulent article purvayed by a militant wildlife activist. In an attempt to discredit the hated Scottish Government the right wing press have picked it up and run with it. The Scottish Government have denied any part of it!