Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Suggestion for outdoor cats catching birds and otherwildlife

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizm]

One of the delights of Cohousing is that each community has these discussions 
based on the values of the people in each community.

We then develop community specific policies. 

New communities look at existing policies for advice, and for ways of dealing 
with their own communities particular foibles and interests.

So there is not actually value in us on this list, all from different 
communities, and from none, trying to resolve the "cats should be inside" or 
"cats should be outside" debate. It doesn't even help if we understand the two 
points of view, here on this list, because we don't need to come up with a 
solution here in this on-list community.

Each community needs to have that discussion themselves and nothing we say here 
will resolve it for them.

What IS interesting is how people have resolved it in their communities. So 
posts of how a community has resolved this, or how they have managed the 
discussion, or how their solution is working, or is not. 

These are the things that will contribute to other groups handling these issues.

-Liz
Elizabeth Magill
www.worcesterfellowship.org

On Jun 27, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Wayne Tyson wrote:

> CoHo:
> 
> Domestic and feral housecats are a major factor in the decline/extinction of 
> songbird populations. Rationalizations aside, just what is the logic that 
> lets cats run loose but not dogs?
> 
> WT