May 25, 2014Comments are closed.TAS Cat Laws
The ONLY effect of ‘cat laws’ is to drive more cats into pounds. That is what they are designed to do. RSPCA Tasmania general manager Peter West said the legislation was a “toothless tiger” that needed better enforcement to ensure people stopped letting their cats get out of control. “We want to see the […]
Continue readingOctober 25, 2013Comments are closed.cats, TAS Cat Laws
When groups come out with outrageous claims about cat populations, they will usually remain unchallenged. Partly because there seems to be a pervasive belief that the ends (generally cat laws or some other restriction on ownership), justifies the means (overwhelming exaggeration and fundamental errors and inflations in cat population estimates). Or simply that the data […]
Continue readingJuly 17, 2013Comments are closed.TAS Cat Laws
Since December 2009, it has been illegal to sell an unmicrochipped cat in Tasmania, breed one if you’re not a registered breeder, or own a cat who is undesexed older than six months of age. Despite these draconian restrictions on pet owners, and the RSPCA Tasmania promise that cats laws would “see fewer feral cats […]
Continue readingJuly 1, 2012Comments are closed.cats, RSPCA, TAS Cat Laws
Tasmania’s new cat management laws come into effect today and rather than the usual palaver where the RSPCA pretend they’re looking out for the cats, they’ve jumped straight into the benefits – getting someone else to do the killing; Under the laws only registered cat owners will be allowed to breed the animals to reduce […]
Continue readingOctober 28, 2009Comments are closed.cats, TAS Cat Laws
When a the heavy pendulum of the law swings too far in one direction, it can’t do so without causing extreme repercussions to the community. Announced in the Mercury today, Australia’s most anti-cat legislation to date. All domestic cats in Tasmania will have to be microchipped and desexed under new laws tabled in Parliament yesterday. […]
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