Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cats - indoor outdoor or both in cohousing

[Linda Hobbet (coho]

At Village Hearth, we are about to move in, our policy is that 
indoor/outdoor cats belonging to original residents can be grandfathered 
in, but after that, only indoor cats.

There are collars that are quite effective in protecting birds from 
cats, https://www.birdsbesafe.com/. Belled collars are not very useful 
because cats learn to walk without ringing the bell. The collars protect 
birds but not reptiles and small mammals.

Linda Hobbet

On 4/28/2020 8:11 PM, Muriel Kranowski wrote:
> Re the concern that such a policy might make sales more difficult, one of
> our original founding couples dropped out of the project because we didn't
> have a no-outdoor-cats policy at that time. The man was a passionate birder
> and was not willing to live where his neighbors' cats could be outside
> killing birds at any time.

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www.VillageHearthCohousing.com
Durham, NC