Please speak up for silent felines. Glen Eira Cat Curfew survey is open until the 29th of June. Glen Eira states it is 'Following the lead from other councils', claiming 'safe' and 'liveable'. Why make a cat curfew which raises the cost-of-living for all residents? Curfews make more homeless, stray cats, raise expensive euthanasia, overload shelters, and place rescuers at suicide-risk higher than Australian police and firefighters endure. Community Cat Programs reduce the number of stray cats in pounds and shelters, and free up more resources to care for and re-home dogs. Online survey & to 'Follow': https://www.haveyoursaygleneira.com.au/cat-curfew Phone: Bruce or Freya: 9524 3333. Email: engagement@gleneira.vic.gov.au
Please ask Councils for a Community Cat Program, instead of a cat curfew. Councils make a night curfew, then say 'It is not working', and then make a 24-hour curfew. Councils have counted those in support of a night-curfew - as being in support of 24-hours. Council consultations are often open online worldwide. Please include some of the science links on Community Cat Programs.
Petitions fail. Your own voice direct to Councils counts.
Tell Banyule by 6th of July: https://shaping.banyule.vic.gov.au/DAMPlan?_ga=2.29585151.1961883121.1749000962-1835956083.1749000962 During the eight years Banyule ran a Community Cat Program, Banyule saved a $1million dollars. After Banyule's manager retired, Banyule employed animal officers without knowledge - ruining the program, and making a cat curfew. Alert Banyule to the evidence that works. Please require education for Animal Management Officers in Community Cat Programs. Urban Cat Management in Australia - Evidence-based Strategies for Success: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/15/8/1083 AdvoCats: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13AHBXAiyKTBz1KRKqhAGWJJDfZapRmQQG2lmNF011AE/edit?usp=sharing
Community Cat Programs save many lives, and save costs, and are science-proven cat management. Please add science links on Community Cat Programs in your comments to Councils - references are in our main page: https://www.change.org/p/knox-advocats Scientific evidence shows that cat curfews are very expensive, and fail to save wildlife. Cat curfews, 'mandated containment', mean greater killing, and greater costs to all residents.
It is not irresponsible owners, it is irresponsible local councils. 90percent of Victoria's impounded cats have no homes to be in, no owners to convict. Cat curfews make more homelessness - endless killing - endless expense - wasted money. Carers keep-in their cats at night. Cat curfews rise hate-speech, and threats of cruelty acts.
Poison laid for rats is killing many native animals. 'Ratsak is losing its bite: How to get rid of the rats in your ranks' https://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/ratsak-is-losing-its-bite-how-to-get-rid-of-rats-in-your-ranks-20250604-p5m4sm.html The Age & Sydney Morning Herald, June 10, 2025. Pest Management Science: https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ps.8936 Daily Mail UK: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14801193/rat-poison-resistant-sydney-perth-melbourne.html 'Second-generation rodenticides are so potent they are banned in the United States, Canada and the European Union.' 'The poison makes it way up the food chain and kills other animals in a huge risk to Australia's biodiversity.'
Victoria State Government plan to kill impounded cats after four days: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-20/victorian-cat-management-strategy-fears-likely-to-kill-more-cats/104921730 ABC News 20 Feb 2025
Management of cat populations in New South Wales Hearings: If you have time to read, or scan, how cat curfews are a failure in Victoria. How Greens MP Sue Higginson wants a strategic specialist service, government-funded, 'euthanasia/convenience-killing' for 'cats that are not homed, or looked after'. Hon Scott Barrett believes that poor people should not have cats. On 'community cats' cared for by the public: The Hon. SCOTT BARRETT: Wouldn't it be better if they were removed altogether? With the effort that goes into catching, desexing and returning an animal, wouldn't you be able to, euphemistically, remove several more of them than that? STEPHEN ALBIN: That's your euphemism. You mean kill them. The Hon. SCOTT BARRETT: Yes, absolutely. https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/inquiries/Pages/inquiry-details.aspx?pk=3011#tab-hearingsandtranscripts 1 April 2025: https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/transcripts/3474/Transcript%20-%20Uncorrected%20-%20Animal%20Welfare%20-%201%20April%202025%20Cat%20Populations%20hearing.PDF 16 Dec 2024: https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/transcripts/3434/Transcript%20-%20CORRECTED%20-%20Animal%20Welfare%20-%20Cat%20populations%20-%2016%20December%202024.pdf
Australian politicians believe it is 'electorally popular' to kill more animals by dictating cat curfews and kill orders, spreading the Invasive Species Council's false figures, and misinformation. Watch out for weasel words of 'safe', 'protect', 'educate'.
Animals 24/7, USA 14 June 2025 https://www.animals24-7.org/2025/06/14/injunction-vs-san-diego-hs-return-to-field-cat-practices-made-permanent/ Plaintiffs’ attorney Bryan Pease: “The court found that the San Diego Humane Society’s actions were illegal and issued a permanent injunction requiring them to admit stray and abandoned cats into the shelter for care and adoption services,” Pease repeated, “whom the San Diego Humane Society previously would have dumped out on the street like garbage.” Animal Politics blogger Ed Boks “The implication is significant: shelters cannot use rigid intake policies to turn away animals who by law must be sheltered. The ruling clarifies that objective signs of ownership - however incomplete - must now trigger a legal duty to admit the animal.” “The revised protocol now requires the admission of all kittens under 12 weeks of age,” Boks noted, “and mandates staff err on the side of sheltering kittens up to six months old unless they are clearly able to survive on their own."
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