Does your city/county/state, etc. have mandatory spaying and neutering? How is it enforced?

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The state government of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, has just announced that municipalities are supposed/permitted to make spaying and neutering of all cats with outdoor access mandatory. It would cover pets and ferals. What it hasn't said is how they're expected to enforce such a law. Thus far there have been no cat licenses; dogs must be licensed, and the fees are quite high. I assume it would entail mandatory microchipping and registration, but how are they going to be able find the owners of outdoor cats that aren't?

As of 2010, two German cities had such a law: City decrees mandatory cat sterilisation to curb strays By "sterilisation" they mean spaying/neutering.

Delmenhorst recently became the second German city to require the sterilisation of all outdoor cats in hopes of reducing its neglected feral feline population. The move could start a trend in a country where pets are infrequently spayed or neutered.

“We want this to be compulsory for cat owners,” said the Lower Saxon city’s animal health commissioner and veterinarian Nicolin Niebuhr, who led the campaign for the new rule. “The cat sterilisation requirement is mainly an appeal for responsibility awareness.”

The statute was modelled after a similar programme that started in the Rhineland city of Paderborn in 2008.

Veterinarian Angelika Hoffmann reports that her practice schedule has been full since the ordinance went into effect six weeks ago.

“It’s not about taking the cat’s sexuality away,” Hoffmann says. “A sterilisation does the opposite, improving the cat’s quality of life.”

Estimates say German households enjoy the company of some eight million house cats, with another two million stray cats lurking in the shadows. Delmenhorst has about 1,000 feral felines, the city estimates. Animal shelters are full and the number of abandoned cats is rising, Niebuhr and Hoffmann said.
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jcat said:
The state government of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, has just announced that municipalities are supposed/permitted to make spaying and neutering of all cats with outdoor access mandatory. It would cover pets and ferals. What it hasn't said is how they're expected to enforce such a law. Thus far there have been no cat licenses; dogs must be licensed, and the fees are quite high. I assume it would entail mandatory microchipping and registration, but how are they going to be able find the owners of outdoor cats that aren't?

As of 2010, two German cities had such a law: City decrees mandatory cat sterilisation to curb strays By "sterilisation" they mean spaying/neutering.
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That's the whole of the world. Blighty was neutered today. The vet told me they do strays etc on Sunday and clip their ears. Probably the whole world clips ears of strays.
 
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I don't know if it's actually enforced in Israel like I don't think it is in England. It's up to responsible people to make sure it's done. Blighty was neutered today, poor little boy. My vet told me Sundays they neuter strays. I suppose after the ear's clipped they go back to where they come from.
This isn't a very kitty country. Very doggy. But I think they are beginning to catch on.
 
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ha ha,that is just like a German to say "you WILL follow this cat decree! AND your cats WILL follow it also!" Most of my family on both sides German, English, and my dad families is Swiss – German,; and to the Swiss, everything is supposed to be logical, and work correctly and be efficient as with Germans. But life doesn't work that way it's not nice and neat.

I live in a county and area,Lane County, city of Eugene, Oregon, that is over run with cats, because people refuse to keep control over their Populations, and we are inundated with them. However there's no way to FORCE them to spay and neuter their cats, except to give people fairly economical places to have it done.and they try to enforce that but, it's not working, and we have too many cats, strays and feral, all over, and the local cat shelters are bulging with unwanted cats.

And then the people who are very "liberally liberal yuppies, and irrational people who don't have to deal with reality" denied that we ever have to reduce the population of, by getting rid of a lot of them.this is just the extreme opposite of somebody very Germanic, who goes around demanding that everybody spay and neuter their cats. So far, neither of these techniques is working.

It probably has a lot to do with this County, and this city, of Eugene Oregon, because we have a lot of very liberal, hippie, and yuppie extremely spoiled people, who don't want to deal with reality and follow rules.so, they don't! They figure, they can do anything they want, be irresponsible, and it will never hurt them. So unfortunately, yes it does have a lot to do with the society you live in and the people who live in it.

Quite frankly, I would rather live with the very stern and rule following Germans, then the type of people I'm living among now. So go ahead and try to see if that will work with your community, and if it doesn't, you'll have to find something else out. It depends on how responsible your citizens are, if they care about their community and their animals. And if that doesn't work, CHARGE them a lot of  FEES, and MONEY if they don't follow the laws.that's probably the bottom line; people obey the laws, if they get punished for not obeying them. Good luck!---from the USA
 
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Personally, I think that's wonderful! All cats should be spayed/neutered. I'm sure you will have to register your cat through the city and have a spay/neuter certificate from the vet. Be prepared to have your cat licensed. Hopefully nobody is making their cat live outside. I think mandatory spay/neuter laws are a great idea. But, nobody should be letting their cats wander outside or live outside. Spaying/neutering is the single most important thing we can do for our pets. Spays and neuters are very routine and safe. Spaying/neutering makes a big difference! In just 7 years, one female cat and her offspring can produce over 370,000 cats! Spayed/neutered cats live longer lives, too. Spaying eliminates the stress a female goes during her heat cycle. Neutering makes males less likely to roam. Spayed/neutered cats are also less likely to catch deadly diseases. Communities spend millions of dollars trying to deal with stray cats. The one time cost of spaying/neutering is far lower than this!
 
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Gotta admit, if that works for your region, then  that's good (in Germany). Fine.   my region has only outlawed the supermarkets and stores from selling items or food in plastic bags; made it law. so everyone either has to buy the stores' paper bags,for5 cents, or you gotta  truck yer own bags  all the time.but cat populations?No not  the cat population!!NO WAAY!!  

ONLY plastic bags get laws. hah. because thats "politically correct'. sheesh.
 
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