Why should the 79 percent of non-cat and responsible-cat households have to pander to this minority?

I think this article is a bit of a “hate speech” against cat owners.

Intolerance bleeds through this article as well. The same intolerance evident with the snow flake objectors, to a roosters crow at five in the morning, and a visit from the ordinance inspector investigating a neighbours noise complaint.

God, get a life, make friends with the neighbours cat, that just might be a way to do it!

Two words........
CAT TRAP.

Touchy subject. But tendentious reasoning based on an opening allegation that 'your neighbour’s cat can come onto your property and even into your house at any time of the day or night; defecate and urinate in your flower garden, vegetable patch or child’s sand box; spray your plants and walls, and stalk and kill the native wildlife in your garden?'. Sounds unpleasant, probably does happen, but in a long life in pet-friendly suburbs I cannot recall a single instance where I could detect evidence of anything on that list. That's the thing about cats. They specialise in unobtrusiveness and they usually are not nuisances. Dogs, on the other hand, can be conspicuous nuisances with their excreting, barking and aggression. However, dog behaviour is much more readily controlled and they are content to be controlled. Cats are not. That's the problem. Disclosure: I own one of each.

In north NSW we saw a black cat crossing a road with tail the thickness of broomstick and held out straight about 800mm ( 2 witnesses). So it's claws would be twice the length of Mrs Smiths tabby and make an alsatian back off as well as the average photographer.

If snails are a problem? Leave out some snail baits, Be careful not to leave them were small curious kids or wandering cats can get them, as the consequences could be lethal?

That said, one can hire traps from the local council? And then returned to the council and the animal pound, when occupied, for further processing or euthanasia?

Cat's fur, remarkably similar to rabbit fur and could beef up the pelt supplies for the Akubra hat company. Or the Davey Crocket hat company in China. With the meat turned into gourmet rabbit stew for pets?

They definitely don't like electric fences and colour bond fences topped with a long continuous roller that means they're let down even as they come to grips with the top of the fence.

Solar powered options ought to be allowed even in suburbia, for folks who don't want their yards turned into pussy toilets for other folks problem pussies.

And see your testicles try and break free and run or cover along with any amorous intentions if you're unwise to take an uninvited shortcut and don't time your crossing between Zaps!

Spayed or neutered cats are less of a problem. If you can't look after an animal well enough to stop it wandering and becoming a smelly nuisance for other folks, then don't keep one. End of story.

Q: how do porcupines make love?
A: Very carefully!
Think about it, you soon see the point in the story?
Aan B.

"No domestic stock or dog can roam freely through our neighbourhoods, so why should domestic cats?"

Because cats aren't the nuisance or danger roaming stock or dogs are.
If the wild claims about "dangers" of cats were even remotely true they wouldn't have been kept as close domestic pets for countless millenia.

What about the countless cats of the public service being let loose in remote communities ?
They do more harm than most people would care to believe.

//Dogs, on the other hand, can be conspicuous nuisances//

Mate, have you ever heard two cats fighting in your yard at 3am when you're trying to sleep? I'd trade that racket for barking dogs any day.

//Because cats aren't the nuisance or danger roaming stock or dogs are.//

Yeah, when was the last time you heard of a domestic cat mauling someone? They just kill native wildlife and give people toxoplasmosis, which is quite unlikely to kill you unless you have a compromised immune system.

However, there is some evidence that toxo might turn you into a crazy cat lady (or man, I suppose), with an irrational attachment to the horrid little vermin.

//If the wild claims about "dangers" of cats were even remotely true they wouldn't have been kept as close domestic pets for countless millenia.//

The reason cats were kept in the past was because they were useful - they kept down populations of rats and mice, and were effectively working animals. These days we have pest exterminators, so cats are unnecessary. We should ban their sale and breeding. If people want small and annoying pets for company... well, I've got a terrier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Q2HZRjHHQ

We have a bushland reserve near us where feral and domestic cats were constantly being captured. The feral ones were put down and the others sent to the vet for identification (many subsequently returning). Euthanising the ferals took long leather gloves and a steady hand and wounds were inflicted on handlers on more than one occasion.

Last year a lizard and frog survey was conducted using probably the most eminent naturalists in the area. It involved laying roof tiles in grid formations in quite of few likely habitats. After 6 months of monthly inspections only a single lizard was recorded.

Any cats captured in a cage are now quickly taken to the nearest fire fighting water hole and thrown in, possible pet or otherwise. Not fully condoning it but fully understand why they do it.

Real Cat Hypnosis Simulator on the App Store - iTunes - Apple
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/real-cat-hypnosis-simulator/id1225412864?mt=8

Qld Cyber-wildlife Officers are collecting feral cats and hypnotising them to hunt cane-toads. Both populations are plumetting , lizards are dancing in the streets.

We don't have a cat problem in our quiet court
except at night. The law is that cats are supposed
to be kept indoors at night. Council rules. However
some of our neighbours don't pay any attention to
this - and allow their cats to roam freely. We've
found quite a few dead birds - and it is annoying.
But I'm not sure what can be done about it.