Town limits cat ownership?

[Pinot's Mom]

I'm about to say something that may not make me very popular, but I'm going to say it anyway. I fully agree with some type of license for larger numbers of ANIMALS (not just cats) in a home, with this caveat: that the purpose is to monitor for abuse and neglect to said animals. We have that in our area; you can not have any more than three animals in your home (it is not specified dogs or cats), BUT, if there is a visit from animal control (after a complaint), and they deem the animals well cared for and under control, there is no violation nor action. There have been way too many cases of neglect and abuse in cases of large numbers of animals (of all kinds) and if this gives some ability for immediate recourse to a situation, then so be it. I would rather those animals that need it be given immediate relief when possible, and I know the people on this site, as many others, would never be cited, so they have a slight inconvenience to help the others.

That's my two cents.

[Prairie Purrs]

I would have happily gotten a $ 50 dollar license in Denver if they'd given me the option. Instead, they cited me for feeding the neighborhood ferals and insisted on searching my house. I managed to postpone the search until I could get my cats moved to other locations. And it's a good thing I did, because three animal control people showed up with carriers, ready to take my cats away.

Also, Denver is notorious for refusing to cooperate with TNR groups. I was in touch with a rescue group at the time, trying to set up a neighborhood TNR program, but the city wanted no part of that. They simply wanted the cats to die. Horrible people!

[Medusa]

Stories such as this really get me riled. I believe that pomtzu came up against the same thing. People want the problem eradicated, they want the cats gone and yet they punish and penalize the people who are working day and night to please these people and help the poor cats at the same time.

When I had houses set up all over the place for ferals, my landlord turned a blind eye and I'm so thankful that he did. Even after I moved away, I had have-a-heart traps set to catch any cats that I still hadn't been able to round up and he was cooperative and let me leave the traps there until I had trapped every last feral, 27 of them not counting the dozens and dozens prior to them. But he was one in a million. I live in an allotment but the community itself is rural and the main method of solving the cat population is to shoot them. I can easily get on my soap box but it only serves to annoy people rather than get their cooperation so I've stopped.

[katladyd]

I rent an apartment and the property management company limits us to two cats. That is fine, it is their property and I abide by their rules. They have had problems with irresponsible pet owners in the past and understand where they are coming from. But, if it is my own house, I should be allowed to have as many cats as I want, as long as they are kept indoors or in runs and are well taken care of. Just my views on the subject.

[GILL]

New Jersey is trying too set a 6 cat limit for the state.