Cohousing-L Mailing List: outdoor cats and dogs

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

At 11:28 AM 6/27/2011, Racheli wrote:

> Just to say that many cats are masters at getting rid of their cat
> bibs, at least those in Sonora Cohousing,
> so this "solution" is only very partially so.  Also, after a while
> people get tired of replacing the bibs, and formerly
> bibbed cats no longer wear those.
>
> Racheli, Sonora Cohousing, Tucson.

Same here.  A few years ago we agreed that cats had to wear bibs outdoors 
and for a while they did, and now they don't.  But even with bibs, some 
cats were still able to catch and kill birds, and of course a bib never 
stopped them from pooping on public paths or in the common garden or 
people's yards. The younger children tend to run around barefoot at least 
half the year, so the cat poop has been a particular issue for parents.

We have a consensus agreement that dogs are to be leashed in the central 
part of the community and are not allowed in the CH (except service dogs), 
and this is almost always adhered to. The people who insisted that their 
dogs were under voice control, and were harmless and cute, and didn't need 
to be leashed, have moved away.

    Muriel, Shadowlake Village Cohousing, Blacksburg VA