I'm annoyed with people who let their pets wander around the neighborhood unattended. Especially if the pet has no collar with tags.
I'm annoyed with people who let their pets wander around the neighborhood unattended. Especially if the pet has no collar with tags.
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I have no problem with sweeping, broad statements. We're talking in broad terms afterall. The vast majority of bike riders act as if the rules of the road don't apply to them and insist everyone else cater to them. They insist on limited road space being taken for them, even if they volume of bike riders doesn't support the investment. It's just...annoying.
I appreciate the effort not to drive and help the environment. Some semblance of self-awareness and law following would be nice though.
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That's definitely one of the gambles of letting cats (or dogs) go walkabout: they might not come back. There are plenty of reasons for this: getting hit by cars, hauled off by animal control, mauled by other animals. The list can go on. Free range pets can also be exposed to diseases carried by other critters that they encounter in the open. We used to let our cats go outside. But not anymore; due to the list of reasons above.
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Since our cats were always foundlings we talked our parents into keeping, we never could make them stay in the house all time, except in the bad winter months. They were pretty good with their collars and we got a tag from the vet to show they had their yearly rabies shots.
But you're right about the hazards. One cat came home with a bullet would that we could actually see through the exit wound. The vet couldn't save him. Another cat we had never came home one night and then we found her on the sidewalk next door. She probably was mauled by dogs. But that was how they were. They had to roam free and still had a bit of a hunter instinct. The chain link fence didn't stop them from jumping over it.
Yes, for all of the reasons below and a few more.
I'll add that free pets tend to wander into other peoples yards and kill wild animals, defecate, fight with that families pets or each other and damage property. If the wandering pet is hurt or captured and has no tags, the person has no choice but to take it to animal control. In the US it may have a chip, but people rarely do that either.
I constantly have cats and dogs in my yard, which wouldn't normally be a problem since I love animals, but they treat each other pretty badly. I've grown tired of finding half-eaten rabbits and birds and a few times dead cats, in my yard.
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Since cats are physically smaller than dogs (for the most part), it can be easy to underestimate the impact they can actually have when allowed to roam the neighborhood. Over time, we came to realize that -- along with the other hazards. It just reenforced our decision to limit our two to being indoors.
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