... I suspect that the forum had a visitor in the middle of the night who just wanted to 'stir things up' ... aka a WUM.
Can I suggest we don't play her game ...
perhaps an over consumption of " falling down water " ?
Or a lack of a meaningful social life ... I mean, most folk have better things to do on a Saturday night than trawl t'internet looking for gardeners to annoy ... even at our age ... there's always a book to read ...
That's quite ironic coming from someone with a 79,157 post count who seems to spend all their waking hours here. I don't think anyone has the right to dictate what ignites a debate, new or old as long as the content is relevant/educational/enjoyable.
If you’d been a member as long as I have, and were retired, and was laid up for a considerable while with an injury, you too might have a high post count.
Anyway, I wasn’t saying don’t debate the topic … I had already posted on the thread earlier … I was suggesting (with my tongue slightly in my cheek) that it should remain good tempered and polite .., as someone was getting a bit argumentative.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That's quite ironic coming from someone with a 79,157 post count who seems to spend all their waking hours here. I don't think anyone has the right to dictate what ignites a debate, new or old as long as the content is relevant/educational/enjoyable.
There really in no need to rude.
The forum is sometimes revisited by wind up merchants, aching to make trouble and then pootle off again.
Mr Bacon, thank you for your constructive input.
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Hopefully, people will see that they cannot look after a cat in an appropriate manner and so not get (a new) one.
You're lucky, @Hostafan1 My son lives near a famous sports venue and he has regularly to drive out fans relieving themselves in his garden. I think he'd rather have the cats.
That's quite ironic coming from someone with a 79,157 post count who seems to spend all their waking hours here. I don't think anyone has the right to dictate what ignites a debate, new or old as long as the content is relevant/educational/enjoyable.
Mr Bacon, thank you for your constructive input.
Methinks my subtle attempt at humour may have been a little 'too' subtle....hey ho.
We used to have Water Voles in our stream, which as most will know are an endangered species. Sadly destroyed by NDN at the time cats and left on his doorstep. He complained to me about the rats in my garden.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I thought I’d have a look on change.org to see if there are any petitions about keeping cats indoors. I don’t find this site easy to search and filter for UK but I found a couple
Keep cats safe and save wild lives. Amend the Animals Act 1971 and end feline free roaming
and
Help save UK Wildlife by making it the law that cats are kept indoors
There is very little support for either of these. I think I would be in favour of legislation to keep cats indoors or on your property. There would need to be some provision for farms and people who genuinely keep cats for helping with vermin, but if you have lots of land the cats would be staying on it and not a problem to anyone else. I suppose farm cats kill birds as well as vermin though.
Working cats on farms are fine, as long as the farmer takes steps to prevent them breeding. The real problems tend to be in urban areas and urban fringe where the cat populations can have a greater concentration and spill out into areas that are often high in wildlife value.
Petitions of this kind are pointless in my opinion. It's hard enough to get MPs to turn up to debate at the best of times but since cat issues are seen as political suicide I doubt any meaningful result would come of them. We've debated this topic on the forum before and it always comes down to how would you monitor or enforce the legislation? and how would you ensure cats are protected from harm if this kind of law was brought in. Awareness campaigns by high profile organisations would help but as we've seen it's impossible to change the minds of stubborn cat owners.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Keep cats safe and save wild lives. Amend the Animals Act 1971 and end feline free roaming
Help save UK Wildlife by making it the law that cats are kept indoors