@Madame_Chaire said:
@airman342 said:
I realise that cats do not have a major impact on the common areasI disagree…. i smell them every day when i arrive home, clean up their mess in our common area garden, and generally shoo them away from preying on birds and possums. love cats but hate how owners let them run free.
Risk of toxoplasmosis, especially serious if pregnant and keen on gardening. In our OC we have patches of remnant bush in the city with bird, lizards, and so on. We get quite rare ground-feeding parrots. We have a blue tongue eating the snails just now living in our garden. I don’t want any of that eaten by a roaming cat. Plenty of my neighbours have cats that only go on common property on a lead or well-behaved and stick close by to their owners. A few cats accustomed to roaming are ‘grandfathered’ and allowed to continue roaming but, in time, we will have no more roaming pets of any kind. All may enjoy the common property when accompanied by a responsible person.