Brickbat: Here Kitty Kitty

Cities across Australia are enacting, and enforcing, curfews on house cats. In Adelaide, for instance, it's illegal for a cat to leave its owner's property unaccompanied between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m. Government officials say cats have a devastating impact on the nation's songbirds and other wildlife. Some cat owners oppose the law, saying cats need time to roam and that it's difficult to get a cat to walk on a leash.

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[Adans smith]

Nothing worse than a pussy that wanders. Or better.

[Dillinger]

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[Jerryskids]

Government officials say cats have a devastating impact on the nation's songbirds and other wildlife.

I've seen some videos of the wildlife in Australia. I'm pretty sure most of them prey on cats. Ever seen a cassowary?

[mad.casual]

Yeah, they're doing this backwards. Passing a law restricting owners is terribly authoritarian. The libertarian solution that I think we can all agree upon would be a combination of The Purge and Cats.

[Ride 'Em]

What do you expect from a country whose rulers always think of themselves as guards of prisoners. And they are progressives.

[Livemike]

We have a lot of small animals that are pretty much defenseless against cats. Contrary to popular belief very few of the animals are dangerous. There's the crocodiles, some jellyfish, some spiders and a whole lot of snakes. Snakes don't generally attack cats because they're too big to eat, they don't go swimming a lot so the jellyfish aren't a problem and the crocs are only up north.

[Trollificus]

Given the (incomplete) information I've gathered about the Australian ecosystem, I suspect there are plants that would prey on cats. Hell, I get the impression there are insects, fish, arachnids, reptiles, rapeworms, hordeweevils, or some fucking evolved Fuligo septica (Dog Vomit Slime Mold), that would hold their own against any fauna wombat size or smaller.

I don't think cats are in such an overwhelmingly superior position.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Past couple years Down Under got a taste for authoritarianism and they liked it.

[Minadin]

It's been headed that way since they took all of their guns.

[Longtobefree]

Well, at least they tried.
1. In two federally funded gun buybacks and voluntary surrenders and State Governments' gun amnesties before and after the Port Arthur Massacre, more than a million firearms were collected and destroyed, possibly a third of the national stock.
2. In October 2017 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said that 51,000 unregistered firearms were surrendered during the three-month amnesty, of the previous estimate of 260,000 unregistered guns.
3. It has been estimated that, as at 2017, there were 3,158,795 firearms in private hands in Australia, of which 414,205 were unregistered.

[Dan S.]

Those are rather precise numbers for estimates. I wonder how they were calculated.

[kcuch]

how they were calculated.
by the number of additional peace officers needed to justify promotions and pay-increases for all involved?

[Trollificus]

Yep. It's the real number, multiplied by the media-dictated Alarm Variable and then modified any way they want to provide solution "X", with "X" being the desired budget figure.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

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[Wizard4169]

Past couple of years? Ha! For a bunch of supposedly wild and crazy rebels, Aussies love them some authoritarianism, and have for a very long time.

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[Will Nonya]

Sounds like the dog lobby has succeeded in pushing some common sense cat control laws.

[Quo Usque Tandem]

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[Its_Not_Inevitable]

Follow the money!

[Eeyore]

Noone needs more than one pussy.

[rbike]

Last fall the cat refused to come home. Found him accidentally stuck in neighbors garage in the morning. He dreams of catching birds but has failed so far. He has caught a few bunnies and other pests.

Too much of my life appears to be taken up by calling him in for the night. But he is as good a cat as you can find.

[Vernon Depner]

Are the cats allowed to drink?

[Rossami]

Yeah, because cats only hunt between 8 and 7... Morons.

[Dillinger]

to protect the birds the cats are allowed out only when the birds are awake.

[Trollificus]

Is no one considering the positive evolutionary pressure on the birds? Why should they not evolve to take their place among the other vicious, predatory, poisonous, spiked, armored and/or venomous flora and fauna found in Oz?

[Ajsloss]

That's a good looking pussy.

[mad.casual]

Some cat owners oppose the law, saying cats need time to roam and that it's difficult to get a cat to walk on a leash.

Q: Are cats or dogs more (Reason-style) libertarian?
A: Cats. Dog owners shout at each other about cleaning up their dogs' shit and whether they're subject to an oppressive regime of social control and conditioning for caring for their dogs. Cat owners just pretend their cats don't shit.

[sarcasmic]

How do you and your hamster fit into this analogy?

[mad.casual]

Between the fact that I don't own a hamster and the fact that I didn't make an analogy, it's probably best to keep your personal fantasies to yourself.

[Trollificus]

My cat and I have revived the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy re: cat poop. Long as the youngest grand kid doesn't find any Tootsie Rolls in the sandbox, no harm, no foul.

Domesticated cats' best survival trait is being low maintenance.

[sarcasmic]

I had a landlord who didn't allow cats because outdoor cats are felons under the Migratory Bird Act. Commerce Clause smash!

[Roberta]

One case on The People's Court had Judge Wapner find a precedent in Pennsylvania that affirmed a pet cat's right to roam. The plaintiff was trying to go by California law on dogs, but for cats Wapner had to search a lot of state cases.

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[Roberta]

Why not restrict the songbirds instead?

[kcuch]

They don't have a human that can be subjected to 'the process'.

[Ride 'Em]

Or fines/fees.

[StackOfCoins]

If you let your cat wander around, esp on other people's property, you are an asshole. Just because you have an animal that would prefer to roam around does not mean you can inflict your cat on other people. They have to be restricted to private property, or properly leashed. Or let them out in a yard supervised, but cats can be slippery bastards if they want to escape. Normal fences won't cut it.

[New Cassandra]

I live in Adelaide and the story is a bit of a beatup. One or two council areas (out of about 20) have tried to impose a cat curfew. – Usually in areas infested with Greens voters. Most of us, like typical Australians, just ignore these nanny state rules. We aren’t like the US where cops bust your door down on the complaint of a busybody neighbour.