....people who open their door and let their pets run free. They are putting the pets very life at risk from wild animals, car accidents of getting injured or lost. It's not very loving if you do not protect them.

It's a city bylaw in Calgary: NO animals are to roam free. Dogs or cats. Mine has a dog kennel that sits on the deck next to my front door. We open the door for Frank and he NEVER tries to take a run for the yard. He walks directly into his cage and will sit in there for hours watching the birds. When he wants to come back in, he'll start meowing. We have owned 3 cats in well over 20 years, and not was was allowed to roam free. The first two cats died of old age: something you don't see a lot of anymore as everyone lets their cats outside to get hit by a car or attacked by a dog. Or poisoned by people who are tired of cats using their flower beds as liter boxes.

My neighbor was walking her collie up to the corner of my driveway and letting it do it's business. Yellow urine in the white snow ALL Winter long. Ugh! When I caught her, she said the poop was too small to pick up. I hate her.....not the dog...which has now passed of old age.

I know what you mean about the neighbors and their dogs. I have a neighbor who lives ¼ mile away and they manage to get those dogs to save up enough urine to pee on my mailbox and planters every day. The wood is stained now. I mean...how rude! DH has mentioned it to some people he knows in the community and I have not seen them near here in months. Maybe the story got back to them?

Weird, this post never showed up after I posted it and now it magically returned.

That happens here. We have a new neighborhood cat who is spending his days in our yard. He hunts the birds all day long while smashing my emerging flower beds. My yard has become the area pooping grounds Once one starts, the others have to compete. It grows exponentially. None to happy about this. Our elderly female who stays in our yard is miserable with this interloper. She doesn't like other cats. Shooing this cat away does nothing. No one has claimed ownership, as I put a post up on Facebook and the responses I got were that this cat comes other's yards too. No one said, oh, that's our cat.

SEA SEA, maybe someone dumped the cat in your neighborhood? Happens a lot in our area, most of our kitties were dumpees whom we took in. But they are all indoors now and don't bother the birds nor the neighbors.

Hmm, kadefol. I hadn't considered that. It certainly is possible he was dumped.

Ah, but you could take a page out of my BIL's handbook -- he got tired of the neighbor's dog pooping in his backyard, so after a few days of it piling up he gloved up and pelted said neighbor's house with it all. BWAAAHAAA!!!

Drop that stray dog off at the humane society and let the owner deal with it.

In our neighborhood, when I see cats roaming, I just think "stupid owners, coyote gonna get this one soon".

How refreshing - so far nobody has cropped up bleating that letting their cats go wherever they want to is a right.

Can't say that for at least one previous thread.

I don't understand people who let their cats outside. At all.

My cats have never been outside except for transporting from their former home or vet. So they're afraid of outside. It's obviously not a need for them to be outside. Anthropomorphic feelings I guess.

Roaming cats are responsible for BILLIONS of song bird deaths every year. I hate roaming cats.

Roaming cats are responsible for BILLIONS of song bird deaths every year. I hate roaming cats.

I blame the people who let them roam/dump them/don't take care of them, and don't spay/neuter. And local ordinances that don't impose the same rules on cat owners as dog owners. I also believe spaying/neutering should be mandatory for all pets, except for licensed breeders.