Good.

Australian with three cats here - they're all indoor and happy about it because i'm not a shitarse pet owner. An outdoor cat in Australia is ecological genocide

Good, should be enforced world wide.

It's crazy how it's seen as socially acceptable to "adopt" or "rescue" them and then release them to freely roam your neighbourhood as an invasive species.

Both domesticated and feral cats — like the one pictured above in New York — pose a threat to Australia's biodiversity, experts say.

I know what they meant by this, but I still find it amusing that a cat in New York could pose a threat to Australia's biodiversity.

As a cat owner I fully agree with this. Pets should generally be kept in ways that don´t threaten wildlife. However I would also prefer that cats who stray around don´t get killed but instead caught, spayed, sheltered and adopted.

If my dog has to stay inside my property, so can your fucking cat.

*cat owners

And I'm not sure how a curfew is going to work since that relies on cats to give one ounce of shit.

Australian cat owner here. owners that aren't responsillble enough to keep their cats inside are deadset dickheads. the most my cat sees of the outside is our backyard when I take her for a walk either leashed up or in my arms, and even then her killer instinct is so obvious as she tracks lizards lying in the garden and such. cats are born hunters. keep them inside

I see so many missing cat flyers around my neighbourhood it's depressing, and yet people keep letting their cats outside. It's bad from just about every angle I don't understand why people keep doing it.

Cats are just doing what they evolved to do, murder everything.

At the very least neutering should be mandatory and strict controls on where cats can be purchased to prevent breeding farms and suchlike.

I'm one of those dickhead cat owners who seemingly can't keep their cat inside. We adopted our cat when he was 3 after spending a lot of time on the street, and ever since taking him in, he'd constantly howl to be let outside. We tried a few methods like an outdoor cat run, but nothing seemed to work.

We've got a GPS collar (and bell) on him and he seems to just stay super local, like within 100 metres of our house.

We've started to gradually transition him inside more but it's tough. We know it's a problem, but really need help getting him to accept inside life.

Im so mad with people not willing to put down feral cats, the live of a single cat is worth more than the live of the hundreds of wild animals that it will kill in its lifetime? Fucking not, but some people are delusional and only think in the cute cat pics. They say ignorance is bliss

all the other animals in Australia need to step up their game

Outdoors is dangerous for cats anyways. There is a reason indoor cats live longer, there are predators and cars outside. Cats can be perfectly happy indoors.

If your cat likes being outside, you can either grab some lumber and chicken wire to make a catio or just get a cat harness and leash. Yeah, there is a chance a cat can escape from the latter if it's not properly sized and secured, but once in a while an indoor cat getting loose is much better than having many outdoor cats outside most of the time hunting random fauna.

Hi New York here, we will take all of them thanks.

Yeah keep kitty in, folks.

Australia wants to force cats to have a little tuna, as a treat.

Indoor cat owner here. I will say I think if you really want your cats to be outdoors you can buy special collars that will prevent them from killing birds. I did 15 minutes of research so this might not be entirely correct but it appears that putting a bell on them is not enough. It needs to be a special collar specifically designed to prevent them from killing birds.

Source: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/general-science/should-i-attach-bell-my-cats-collar