Hi all, I just wanted to reach out to let you know we’ve just passed 272 signatures on our petition! Thank you so much for your support! The council is literally trying to make us herd cats.

For those who haven't seen it, I wanted to share what Glenyce Barton posted to give you an insight on how little we were consulted. See below but I wanted to point out that out of 720 respondents, 619 were in favour of the curfew (0.38% of Knox residents). Let's try and at least double this number to show the council they didn't get an accurate sample of the population!

Thanks Glenyce:

Last year, Knox trialled a curfew requiring cats to be confined between sunset and sunrise. Throughout the trial, feedback was sought from the community and again more than 86% of respondents supported a curfew, with greater preference for a 24-hour curfew over a night-time curfew. Almost half of the more than 720 respondents were cat owners.

Let’s extrapolate those numbers:
* In 2020 Knox had 165,147 residents
* 720 surveyed - That’s less than 0.44% of residents
* Almost half of those were cat owners - That’s less than .022% of total residents
* Only 5.5% of 6,500 registered cat owners consulted
* 86% of the 720 surveyed supported the 24 hour curfew- That’s 619 who supported the curfew - a mere 0.38% of residents

The council is already actively advertising cat traps #inhumane

The numbers clearly evidence that the Council have pushed this through by stealth and indeed have not adequately consulted the residents.
Knox City Council this needs to be halted until the residents get to debate this.

https://www.change.org/p/knox-council-review-knox-council-s-plans-for-24yr-cat-curfew