Editor:
Now, about the birds. Shall we start with the raptors that snatch pretty songbirds off their twiggy rests, or the giant eagles that pack in great numbers, depleting salmon spawning runs and also carry away small precious dogs off beaches to eat alive.
Also, our yards are not for someone else’s malcontents’ use for their private aviaries. Birds have vast tracts of wild land that is their natural habitat.
Our properties, that are often the result of diligent, hard, real work, are for we who own them and our pets’ rights and use, not for others’ pompous control freakouts. Being distraught over these issues does not by law give anyone the right to become verbally aggressive nor abusive on someone’s doorstep.
And as for licensing cats – some dogs bite people, including kids. Pet cats are much safer. That’s why dogs are licensed.
Songbirds. Should we make humans pay for degrading their environments? Lock ‘em up. One size fits all with that solution.
Caution, overregulation of entire towns due to a personal preference can be megalomania.
Here’s the thing. Do you like rat plagues? Google current rat plagues in Europe, where they seem to have forgotten the value of feral kitties and free-roaming housecats. Wall to wall living rivers of running rats. Though some people find rats intriguing as pets, wild, en masse, they are unfortunately very dirty little beings, a health hazard.
You don’t want to find out how fast that happens! Don’t lock up the cats.
Any good community has a few ferals doing rat controlling, or at least some house cats on rat patrol. Good idea to view those rat videos.
Elisabeth Parker, Roberts Creek
