I don't know if this is the right forum to ask this...
Does anyone know anything about laws relating to trapping cats. We live in the country in the mountains. Our neighbor periodically calls animal control to request a cat trap.
We have a bad history with our neighbors :witch: and our county is corrupt. (It was actually featured on 20/20 five years or so ago because of how corrupt it is.) We don't have a good relationship with animal control regarding past issues involving our dogs, our neighbors and the corrupt system.
So, if any of our cats are trapped and end up in animal control's custody, we might as well forget about the cat. In the last two years we have lost two cats this way.
I recently discovered that our neighbors requested a trap in the second half of February. They publish some of the 911 calls in a sheriff's log published in a newspaper that comes out bimonthly. When this first started going on we only had one neighbor on our street, so we knew when our street was mentioned who was calling the sheriff. We may have lost another cat, except she has disappeared for several days before and come back, so not enough time has passed to know for sure.
Do our neighbors have the right to trap our cats? Is there laws about keeping your cats on your own property? And how do you do that? We have almost 4.5 acres. One of our cats, the cat that belongs to me, specifically, is neutered, so he hopefully won't go far. We want our cats to hunt and keep away the mice and rats. Does having them spayed or neutered even matter as far as the law is concerned when it comes to trapping? (I don't have the money to fix my moms cats and I can't force her to do it, although I bug her all the time about it.)
I live in California. Mariposa county... but don't trust them to follow their own laws! :madalien: I have always had a deep respect for the law, which was tainted when we moved here.
Does anyone know anything about laws relating to trapping cats. We live in the country in the mountains. Our neighbor periodically calls animal control to request a cat trap.
We have a bad history with our neighbors :witch: and our county is corrupt. (It was actually featured on 20/20 five years or so ago because of how corrupt it is.) We don't have a good relationship with animal control regarding past issues involving our dogs, our neighbors and the corrupt system.
So, if any of our cats are trapped and end up in animal control's custody, we might as well forget about the cat. In the last two years we have lost two cats this way.
I recently discovered that our neighbors requested a trap in the second half of February. They publish some of the 911 calls in a sheriff's log published in a newspaper that comes out bimonthly. When this first started going on we only had one neighbor on our street, so we knew when our street was mentioned who was calling the sheriff. We may have lost another cat, except she has disappeared for several days before and come back, so not enough time has passed to know for sure.
Do our neighbors have the right to trap our cats? Is there laws about keeping your cats on your own property? And how do you do that? We have almost 4.5 acres. One of our cats, the cat that belongs to me, specifically, is neutered, so he hopefully won't go far. We want our cats to hunt and keep away the mice and rats. Does having them spayed or neutered even matter as far as the law is concerned when it comes to trapping? (I don't have the money to fix my moms cats and I can't force her to do it, although I bug her all the time about it.)
I live in California. Mariposa county... but don't trust them to follow their own laws! :madalien: I have always had a deep respect for the law, which was tainted when we moved here.