Cohousing-L Mailing List: Pets--Their Impact

[T. Kolney (kolre001]

Rob Sandlin wrote: "Cats and dogs have large, negative impacts on native
wildlife."

This, of course, depends on where you allow them to live/run unattended.
Cats and dogs are domestic creatures and largely belong in your house or in
a fenced-in yard/run -- not only for the good of native wildlife, but for
their own good.  If you intend to have them somewhere else, you should have
a way of both controlling and defending them.  (I have seen some
not-too-pretty examples and photos of what native wildlife has done to cats
and dogs.)