🍺 PUB TEST: Should There Be A Cap On How Many Cats You Own?

Does putting a cap on how many cats you can own pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation down to the Jonesy demandarams of
the pub test. Cat caps do they pass the pub test? Well?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
The Environment Minister Tanya Plebersek is poised to release some
details about an upcoming plan to cut the number of
feral cats to protect our wildlife. Five and a half
million feral cats in Australia killing more than one point
five billion native mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs and one
billion invertebrates every year. So what are we going to
do that?

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Have you seen a feral cat?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
They're pretty savage.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
They're not like little fluff that you have as.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
The hounds, not like mister puss Puss.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
No, No, there's a I've seen one.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
They're pretty savage. But that's the thing is that some
of these cats, we still have to make sure that
our domestic cats don't interbreed or intermingle. The Cat's Thread
Abatement Plan is what it's called. It's a framework designed
to maybe come up with some plans as to how
to do this, including nighttime curfews, household limits on cat numbers,
cat free suburbs. How do you feel cat cats? Do

(00:58):
they passed the pub test?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
I think they do pass the pub test. My daughter
has got a few cats, but she keeps them in
the house. I've seen cats killing birds native birds as well,
so yeah, it's not on the escape. So yes, there's
definitely should be a cap on cat and.

Speaker 5 (01:14):
How many they do. Having been a recent cat owner
myself and a foster care for kittens, I believe that
they should be indoors, especially at nighttime, and they should
also have a bell on them, and they also be.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
A story they get rid of them. To complain to
the council because we've got so many stray and field
cats in the area, and they replied, oh, we've got
no power to cats them and destroy them. You need
to speak to your strata about it.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Well, I think all cats need to be locked up away.
They shouldn't be let room free because they do endanger
all of our wildlife. Dogs have got to be locked up,
why not cats.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
There