Comment on Injured dog walkers could be costing NHS £23m a year
OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk 2 days agoI’m not sure a license is the best way to go about it, but I certainly do think something needs to change.
I think there should be some sort of minimum commitment to training if a person gets a new dog, i.e. you can have a puppy but you must have already booked up x amount of training sessions.
And with cats, it’d like to see pre-booked appointments for neutering/spaying and microchipping, because apparently according to my neighbours, you can buy kittens, not do any of that and then just let them be feral around your neighbourhood and not really have to take care of them at all.
I’d actually like to see legislation on new cats not being let outside unless contained in a catio or something.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Ignoreing the not having to care for them. And legally cats must be chipped now. But that is a very very recent rule change.
This is very much a majority opinion in the UK that cats kept inside is cruelty to the cat. You opinion that all cats are required to be inside creatures is the rare one. More common in the younger generation. But not one backed up by evidence.
Bird deaths are the most common sighted evidence. But cats have been in the UK at least since the Romans first arrival. So 2000 years. And have been used as pest control on farms extensively since at least that period. Urbanisation may mean more cats. But the expansion of humanity and removal of habitate is the real issue.