A week ago Sunday, CEO of the RSPCA ACT Michael Linke was in the state’s major newspaper, the Canberra Times, promoting intolerance to free-roaming cats – namely that 24hr cat curfews should be implemented across the state.
Sitting in a cat enclosure, he pit cat against native wildlife. Cat curfews, he said, were successful and should be mandatory statewide.
And by Thursday, a predictable, but nonetheless horrifying response to telling the community that cats are fair game – an empowered cat hater…
“An unnamed resident of the southern suburb sent out warning notices on Thursday to nearby cat owners that action would be taken (against people’s pets).
“By law I am allowed to bait and trap animals that are nuisances and take them to the RSPCA or somewhere far, far away, the choice will be mine,” the aggravated individual said.
“I will now set up various forms of cat traps, to get rid of these animals…”
“The RSPCA advocates keeping cats indoors” is now the catch-cry of every lunatic with shiny new cat trap. The RSPCA ACT is now scrambling to remind people that they can’t just kill pet cats. Hopefully, the cats will end up at the RSPCA. Maybe they won’t. But either way, the cats and cat owners have been sold out by the RSPCA – the very organisation supposed to be lobbying for their protection and welfare.
