Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: outdoor cats and dogs

[Charles Nuckolls (administrator]

In my research on cohousing, I have often been told that the "pets policy" is 
the most contentious, more than financial contributions or work allocatgions.

Still, I can hardly believe it.

One wonders if the day will someday come when the policy question will be how 
to kill, butcher, and eat the animals we (Americans) currently spend $30 
billion a year to maintain.

Looking forward to a new topic,

Charles
Utah Valley Commons
www.utahvalleycommons.com



--- On Mon, 6/27/11, Racheli Gai <racheli [at] sonoracohousing.com> wrote:

> From: Racheli Gai <racheli [at] sonoracohousing.com>
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ outdoor cats and dogs
> To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Date: Monday, June 27, 2011, 7:37 PM
> 
> Yeah, that's probably right, but no one (in my community,
> at least)  
> argues for letting dogs run around and poop without
> supervision and picking-up of poop (although we are not all
> in  
> agreement about leashing).  In the case of cats, many
> people
> don't seem to apply the same standard.
> Racheli.
> 
> 
> On Jun 27, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Joanie Connors wrote:
> 
> >
> > According to 3 websites I just checked, both dog and
> cat feces are
> > equally dangerous to handle, because they can contain
> parasites. They
> > emphasized keeping children and pregnant women away
> from them.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Racheli Gai
> > <racheli [at] sonoracohousing.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Cat shit raises serious health issues, but most
> owners of outdoor  
> >> cats
> >> seem to live in denial of this, as well as of the
> effect their
> >> animals have on the environment.
> >>
> >> Racheli.
> >>
> >> On Jun 27, 2011, at 4:45 PM, R.N. Johnson wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I would guess the main reasons outdoor cats
> are not as big an issue
> >>> are that 1) cats rarely  if ever kill or
> serious injure humans or
> >>> companion animals larger than rodents, and
> rarely attack without
> >>> provocation, while (some) dogs do; 2) Cats
> tend to cover their poop,
> >>> 3) most people don't consider the lives of
> other animals to have as
> >>> much value as human lives and 4) few people
> are scared of cats.
> >>> That said, given the density of household
> cats, there is a clear
> >>> need to address the issue of cats predating on
> endangered bird
> >>> species.
> >>> Randa Johnson
> >>> New Brighton Cohousing
> >>> Aptos, CA.
> >>>
> >>> *****
> >>>
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