AJP’s Introduced Animals Policy: ‘Promote responsible’ ‘companion animals safe in their homes eg. in cat enclosures’. AJP cancels the word ‘feral’ - allowing homeless cat predation to be applied to homed cats*. Policy header is cat photo above - targeting felines. https://vic.animaljusticeparty.org/introduced_animals
City of Greater Dandenong stated voting on Cat Curfew in June - so if you know residents there please ask them to ask questions at the expected meeting on 26th of June. https://www.greaterdandenong.vic.gov.au/council-meeting-26-june-2023 Agenda is available Thursday 22nd June Public questions: https://www.greaterdandenong.vic.gov.au/council-meetings/council-meetings-public-question-time
The new Victorian Animals Act will remove the title of 'Prevention of Cruelty to (all) Animals', to ‘Care' 'Protection’ 'Welfare' and plans to segregate into non-native and native species. History demonstrates another ‘Care’ and ‘Protection’ Act misled to allow greater killing and decades of pain. Deeming an already underprivileged minority undesirable to live. A titled Act of empty words, hiding more cruelty?
A Knox vet advises ‘owners to take the risk and let their cats out for the sake of their cats mental health’, but we fear fines, and neighbours' overpower. Cat-carers are denied consultation, denied equal rights, denied living well, trapped, maligned, hated, hunted, and harmed by inequitable law. My cat suns his daytimes outside, I am like Ned Kelly signed himself: ‘a forced outlaw'.
In February AJP asked AdvoCats for public questions for the Minister on the unverifiable, open beyond Australia, online Local Council surveys being used to implement cat curfews. Following up, AJP did not reply, re-draft or present. Now in June AJP sends link to ‘Key Objective’ for ‘cat enclosures’. 'Policy that Animal Justice Party will actively campaign on'. Caging Cats is Cruel - where is ‘Justice’ for cats - who have already been shunted many times behind greyhounds, ducks, and pigs, used as a political football, imprisoned, trapped, and curfews target for a permanent 24-hr killing-season on kittens.
Mandated 'cat containment' is kitten-farming, rising caged cruelty, makes greater killing profits for pounds, costs the whole community six times more, promotes ‘free traps’, kills more wildlife, while lessening attitudes towards felines (and females) - removing equality, worsening homelessness, and placing shelter-workers at suicide-risk as high as fire-fighters. APWF evidence: https://petwelfare.org.au/saving-live/ or on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbK3R36Xjg
* Allowing figures on homeless cat predation to be unfairly charged on homed cats, lessens potential homes, and current homes. Silence speaks volumes on politicians condoning Councils making Curfews without consultation.
Where is Media on the effective solution of Community Cat Programs or the actual scientific evidence? Where is policy on Community Cat Programs? Instead media and politics have spread misinformation, fanning hate-speech, cruelty, and high costs to all.
Star News Dandenong 9 April 23. https://dandenong.starcommunity.com.au/news/2023-04-09/cat-curfew-debate-roars/
ABC’s 7.30 Report, 18 April 23 misapplying feral to pet cats, with lack of questioning false figure: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-18/calls-to-ban-pet-cats-roaming-outside-to-protect/102238860
Two Knox politicians who said, before they were elected, would help, have not tried - one deletes questions from her Facebook - does not answer letters, the other just regurgitates Council inaccuracies. Animal Justice Party’s local candidate stated: ‘Definitely think cats should be inside or in outside cat runs’
Caging Cats is Cruel Save Cats, Save Wildlife, please share accurate evidence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbK3R36Xjg