Roaming cats are not a problem in Lethbridge
By Lethbridge Herald on November 30, 2024.
Editor:
I hope that more people will realize that cats have been a free-range animal for centuries.
The reason being that cats were used to keep down rats, mice and were company for those that owned them.
I find people’s lack of knowledge of this fact is the cause of the new animal nonsense that’s going around.
Cats also hunt gophers and thus help the city keep them in check.
I find people’s lack of understanding cats a real lack of trying to find out more about them.
Also cats bury their excrement and cat excrement is good fertilizer but dogs have to have a trained human to pick up after them in the city so dogs are smarter than their owners!
I do think cats should have a chip so they can be returned to owners if they are in a way different place than they come from. I was watching TV news Calgary and cats were being taken to Calgary from Lethbridge rather than left here for our animal shelter to find the owners here!
Dale. E. Finley
Lethbridge
11-10
it is an excellent investment for the city to cover spay/neuter costs for all, and it would further be a good idea that chipping is covered.
cats outdoors are not without some issues, but they do help control mice, which are aplenty in town. they also kill birds, but that is how nature works, as tough as that may be to accept. on the other hand, with nothing to help keep numbers in check, many birds would die due to over population, as there is only so much food to go around when winter hits.
Interesting. I submitted a response to the “cat problem”. I pointed out the negative aspects of roaming cats. (Bird kills, personal dangers and disease.)
And yet, it was REJECTED.
Why?
perhaps it is due to your entry as being “for the birds”, while the letter and my entry are “the cat’s meow”? 🙂
kidding aside… as usual, i appreciate your thoughts on this and all you share perspective on. i also am curious as to what happened with that submission.