@crisw, to your question, cats all over the world often go through danger as I did made that clear. There are more possibilities for stray cats to get injured or killed. People’s household cats can get used to their daily cat routines. That all depends on how the cat owner trains their cat, same way with 7 to 10 year old kids. As for allowing a dog to roam around and it bites someone as you claim — yes I would be responsible, but again, dogs were meant to be kept in fences. People that own and care for their cats will not allow their cats to roam around an entire neighborhood in the first place.
To take care of this problem, if a cat leaves it’s owner and it gets lost, gets hit by a car, gets stolen, etc; train the cat when it’s starts going past the next door neighbors home, teach it to come back when it’s going farther than an owners expectations. If neighbors aren’t cat lovers, then train the cat to be around in that owners property only. It is that simple, cats are not slow learners by the way. In my my case, my neighbors do not mind if my cat roams around in their properties, as I also made that clear.
- “You let your cat out. This is entirely your responsibility; not your neighbor’s.”
I know this bird attack wouldn’t have happened if my neighbors hadn’t left the birds nest were it was reachable, that’s just the nature of a cat and it’s instincts when a birds nest shouldn’t have been in nature’s very own trees.
Correct: http://afteracupofcoffee.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/nest-e1280937928721.jpg
Incorrect: http://media.photobucket.com/image/backyard%20bird%20nest%20photos/tiffmee/Nature/100_0453.jpg