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Suburban Cats To Be Legally Trapped & Euthanized Under New Local Cat Laws ... The legal trapping of cats opened up by these new local cat laws will only encourage vigilantes who hate cats to have an 'open season’ on cats in their neighborhood.  The Cat Haven, a well known Perth based cat rescue group have already reported incidences of cats caught in traps being drowned in lakes.  A horrible death for any animal with no chance of escape – and astonishingly still a set of laws introduced in such poor format by local councils that policing these laws is almost impossible.  Very little forethought went into the ultimate outcomes that these laws would fester, if councils honestly thought that residents of their shire would act responsibly under these new laws they have already been witness to the folly of their naivety.   With cats being drowned in traps and my own experience of having my cat Simon being trapped by a neighbour in my own street and taken to the pound with no consultation with the shire.  I managed to rescue my cat Simon on Day 6, it was clearly a lucky day for him will your cat be so lucky?...

California Dog Bite Lawyer Looks At California Dog Bite Laws To Determine What Kind Of Trouble A Dog Is In When It Bites Someone ... Dog Bites and Dog Attack Statutes In California, the short explanation is that for the most part, a dog owner is liable for the bad actions of his or her dog. For a dog owner to be liable for the damages suffered by a person bitten by the owner's dog, there is no requirement that the owner had knowledge of the dangerous propensities of his or her dog, or any requirement of knowledge of any previous bite by the dog....

Aussiecats Takes On The New Local Cat Laws In Western Australia ... These laws aim to promote responsible cat ownership, welfare and safety of domestic cats and to assist in the prevention of nuisances to the community caused by cats... Unfortunately for cat owners there is presently no avenue of disputing these laws with the individual shires nor dispute the decisions made under them... These laws have the potential to disrupt and damage relations between neighbours and encourage vigilantes to target several cats in one street just because they don't like cats....

Science is the knowledge of many, orderly and methodically
digested and arranged, so as to become attainable by one. The
knowledge of reasons and their conclusions constitutes abstract, that of causes and their effects, and of the laws of nature, natural science.
—John Frederick William Herschel (1792–1871)

All things by human laws created change:
Lands to each other known, in time grow strange:
Nations in course of many years put on
A various face; but heaven wears always one.
—Marcus Manilius (10 B.C.–A.D. 30)

The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all.
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)