German tomcats banned from mating

29 November -0001

cat Germany’s minister for agriculture has focussed the spotlight on the nation’s un-neutered pet tomcats.

They have been accused of wandering about and mating freely which has led to a glut of stray cats.

The minister, Christian Schmidt, has proposed that the tomcats must be neutered, kept under lock and key or put on a lead.

“Either castrate your cat or don’t let him out of the house,” is the official advice to pet-owners.

Official figures indicate there are as many as one million stray cats in Germany. They have also been charged with causing thousands of euros worth of damage to trees and flowers.

The strays never have the vaccinations pet cats are given, and diseases are spreading rapidly in the wild population, according to the ministry.

Many feral cats are born weak and are not able to fend well.

“Unlike wild animals, cats are a domesticated species that is not adapted to life without human support,” a ministry spokesman told reporters.

“Without human care and support, the cats often experience considerable pain, suffering or harm.”

Animal rights activists support the proposals.

A spokesman for Peta said they are “an important measure against cat overpopulation, and to mitigate the suffering of homeless cats”.

Comments

+1 #3 Joao Martins 2015-11-22 18:39

Quoting Mike Towl:

According to the Memsahib, who deals with Cats for a local animal charity, there has been an explosion of kittens this year despite the Charity paying for almost a 1000 Feral Cats to be neutered last year alone. (Nice work for the local vets). Getting the Portuguese to carry out this minor procedure on their animals is in the most part impossible even though the Charity, in the case of a domestic Cat, carry most of the financial weight. On many occasions people who have offered to home a Cat have been refused because they wouldn't have the animal "fixed." A couple of their best excuses are "It's not how God intended it" and "It turns the Cat gay. I kid you not.

Thanks Mike, it's been a while since i've fallen off my perch in fits of laughter, try saying that with a straight face ("It turns the Cat gay'') so then could two gay cats adopt a kitten, lets run it through parliament ?

+2 #2 Dierdre 2015-11-22 10:47

Animal Care, or lack of it, is one of the most striking ways the Portuguese not just fall short of even the minimum standards of the EU - here animal care - but have spent 30 years totally misleading the European Union. In particular the more developed 'Animal Welfare EU states' that they were up to speed on animal welfare; when, on inspection, the country clearly was not.

Now, as with all the sham prosecutions of the elite VIP Portuguese - Portugal scrabbling to pretend that this time it will behave. Really ! Honestly!

Amongst much else in the Portuguese Hall of Shame is their dismal standards of treating performing circus animals. Driving animals mental, as they do to thousands of chained up dogs annually, through abysmal non-comprehending, non existent, care. Amongst west Europeans nations the Portuguese long being the benchmark for poor animal care below which no one else came near.

http://www.oipa.org/international/circuses/news/portugal.html

+4 #1 Mike Towl 2015-11-21 09:09

According to the Memsahib, who deals with Cats for a local animal charity, there has been an explosion of kittens this year despite the Charity paying for almost a 1000 Feral Cats to be neutered last year alone. (Nice work for the local vets). Getting the Portuguese to carry out this minor procedure on their animals is in the most part impossible even though the Charity, in the case of a domestic Cat, carry most of the financial weight. On many occasions people who have offered to home a Cat have been refused because they wouldn't have the animal "fixed." A couple of their best excuses are "It's not how God intended it" and "It turns the Cat gay. I kid you not.

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