Emma wrote on Jun 1
st, 2013 at 12:43am:
Don't blame the cats ~ blame the Local City Council By-Laws, The State legislature, and the federal Parliament.
It was they who didn't think to legislate for heavy penalties against irresponsible cat owners. Even as late as the year 2013 my City Council does not require cat owners to have their males spaded.
And it has only been in the last couple of years that cat owners must have their cats micro-chipped and registered with the council.
If I was asked why there are so many suburban strays ... (that eventually drift into the wooded national parks) ... I would unhesitatingly say that it's because of the crippling fees that vets charge for even the simplest and most routine of their services.
I know from my own experience that owning even one cat is a blistering impost on one's meagre Age Pension resources.
If you can't afford an animal - don't get one?
Cat Care will arrange for your cat to be desexed for $50. It is also mandatory to register them, because unregistered and undesexed cats without a microchip, if caught by a disgruntled neighbour, will end up at the RSPCA (or worse) with an uncertain fate.
You can pick up a kitten or mature cat at the RSPCA for $160 - desexed and microchipped. Registration fees are $75 for life or if you have a health care or pension card - $15.
If you care for your cat, they are expensive to maintain - especially feeding them. I pay $1 a tin for my own tuna - but $1.70 for the same size tin for the cat.
You can treat a cat with a certain type of human antibiotic quite successfully, although you have to be very careful with the measurements being accurate for the weight of the cat.
this all good advice ..for cat owners..
you have stuffed up the reference Mantra....
I DIDN'T POST the tract you attribute to me.
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