No one could convince me abandoning a pet species into the wild is anything but inhumane, but here is everyone's chance to vote.
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I know who it benefits. 1st the lazy. Also, the poor and rich alike who hate litter boxes or can't stand a pet in the house. Especially once it is no longer a cute lil' kitten. Lake Jackson Texas is a major bird center in Brazoria County- 60 mile south of houston. Lake Jackson allows owners to let their cats roam free by exemption to the law. the local paper is thefacts.com. If anyone has the time I would like to get as many birders as possible to contact the paper and the city officials to urge a bird friendly change in the ordinance. I am asking this because I know the city officials and key city employees, including the city attny, have free roaming pets.
I'd been hoping you'd be back here, RKing8. I've seen plenty of bird bloggers in the Houston area recently discussing birding out in your direction.
Keep in touch here, and I'll make the trip to your blogs. I'd like to send some letters to the editor of that newspaper.
I hope to get birders with the energy to go against the grain on this issue. Most groups are against getting involved as it does not meet their non-profit goals. They think this is politics. I see it as Civics 101. Free range was outlawed years ago in Texas. I worked for years to get avian groups to endorse Cat Indoors-out loud. Audubon has their policy letter which is great but it is pretty well hidden on most pages I see. I'd like to see Cat Indoors and their Cat Policy statement linked on the front page of every bird page on the internet w/your counter. I need to travel the state working this issue, I don't mean just go to talk in the schools. I am not an educator. I want to know if the mayor in whatever town I am working has a free roaming cat. I want to know if the comissioners have free roaming pets. I want to target any feral cat colony I can for elimination thru whatever means works. I dont' know yet what will work but I have soem very definite ideas about PR. I have worked in mgt on successful local option elections in Williamson and Travis county.I amde the last of dry Austin wet. I worked on Kennedys' campaign as a kid adn lots of others. I want to change this paradigm in our society that allows a person to feel good about doing wrong. Free roaming cats are linked to so many of society's woes that the issue is slowly coming to the forefront of society's glare. However, Texas is often slow to change her pattern of life. We need a lot of persuading. If a person can get a town to release registration records it is a good place to start. I hope any one hwo is reading this will call their elected officials .Lake Jackson city hall's number is 979-415-2400Call those suckers up and ask them why, when it runs in the face of all avian scientists opinion and actual data do they allow cats to roam free by law. I am going to blog on this Sunday. Let's gang bang LJ on this issue.
You seem dedicated to the issue and have convictions, that's what it will take to overcome the momentum the cat enablers have built up.
Thank goodness they've had it their way long enough it's becoming obvious to many they pander to their ten, twenty, or thirty cats while another several dozen are dumped around them.
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