Cat Owners NEED To Hear This!

Local council's all across Sydney have been pushing their support of a 24 hour cat curfew to curb the increase of feral cats!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fitting In with Kate Richie podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
You may have seen this across the news the past
twenty four hours, but fifteen New South As councils have
signal their support they want cats to be locked up
twenty four to seven.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Nothing to do with James Corden in the musical Cats
Tug Tugger.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
It was Ricky Jervasus, Joe Oh. James Corden was a joy.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
We also saw him in the movie Cats. Look, you
know what we spoke to the Ki Kiffners is coming.
He's made a career out of cats. You can't lock
cats up twenty four to seven, aren't you.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Cats aren't like dogs, where there's sort of a it's
bedtime and we all go to bed.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Cats love a bit of nighttime action. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
But see, this is what I didn't know because I've
done a bit of research and oh my gosh, they
are killing machines.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
This cannot be right. They're hunting at night for sure.
How's this on average?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
In Australia every twenty four hours cats kill? It says
here two point nine two million mammals every twenty four hours.
That can't be right.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
And then it says mammals yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
One point six seven million reptiles. It kills a million
birds in Australia every day. And there's what. We've got
one point six million pet cats living in New South
Wales and there's five million cats all around Australia.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Obviously a lot of wild ones.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
But they are killing machines.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
So if we go back to the mammal comment, because
I'm taken back Tommy and mammal, I my understanding was
is a warm blooded animal.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
So anything from rats to deer, monkeys' bats.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
So you think the cats are killing monkeys at night?
What dolphins? Dolphins? Are they? That's right? The shark as
a fisher, dolphins and of course humans.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, Luna brought a dolphin to our back door last night.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
I can't have that from I don't know too much
of an issue with a cat killer.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
We're all pretty good with that, we all right, yes,
thanks guys.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Actually we had Luna, Luna's. We've been letting Luna outside
for an hour or two and then I told you
Bej's put the apple ear tag on the cat and
it went missing two kilometers down the road, ended up
in swamp land, so she couldn't get to it. Then
when she woke up in the morning, her phone beeped, yep,
there was a notification saying the cats at the front door.
But we let the cat out for an hour last night.

(02:34):
Came back with the gecko. She's screamed, bjay's screaming the
house down. I'm sort of quite proud that your cat
can do that hunter gecko.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
How big is a gecko? Five centimeters? Well it's yeah,
it wasn't that bee. Is that a reptile? Is that
what I mean by reptiles?

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, that would be yeah, that would be a reptile.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
I know.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
But they go after birds. But this is getting out
of control now, so you may have to. I mean,
if they find your cat, you're going to get huge
fines in New South Wales if this comes in.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
If you're a bird and.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
You get caught by a cat, you're an idiot. You're
an absolute idiot of a bird. If you've got the
ability to actually lift off the ground and fly away,
but still you get caught by something that can't fly, you.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Deserve to have your head eaten.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, to all the birds out there.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
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