"Make it a requirement for people to keep their own animals within their own property. Cat mess is unpleasant and a health hazard for kids. Its not right that people can let their animals run wild over your property."
I rather get the impression from the RSS feed that each petition is approved by some kind of moderator (pity the poor mod!) before being put up on the website, because by and large they are only appearing in the day. So I expected the weekend to be quiet. Only I happened to mention to someone the child benefit for cats petition, and then had to link to it for them, which meant searching the petitions for the term "cats", whereupon I noticed this little gem which had previously passed me by.
Now, to be fair, feline excrement can carry very nasty things which children certainly need to avoid (is it listeria, particularly? I forget. Probably more than one nasty, anyway). And while cats are normally, most of them, tidy and bury their shit properly, not all of them do, and it can be very unpleasant. I believe the best possible way to avoid having cat shit in your garden, if you live in a much-catted area, is to have a cat yourself. Other methods include using orange peel: cats very much dislike citrus oils, so pop a bit of orange peel round the garden and it should help.
Or you could try banning free-roaming pets. It might well reduce the problem - if you could enforce it in any possible way. Feral cats would still exist, though, not to mention foxes (urban and rural), rabbits, badgers and all the other roaming creatures who, well, roam.
And this is an animal-loving country; you'd never get people to go for that cruelty in legislation. Bonkers.
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