[Michael Romanos]

Cats are night hunters and expert tree climbers- so birds in trees are more vunerable at night time than during the day. Nests of baby birds are very much at risk. Cats have great night vision. The world cannot sustain the continuing loss of birds from domestic cats. The vast majority of domestic cats do not need birds for their food supply.
I think that laws about cat movement will become a reality in time. There are absolutely no laws regarding cats in NZ apart from the care and well being of cats.
New Zealand has a lot of rare birds and also a lot of abundant species of birds - but we want to protect all of them, no matter the number. A silent (lack of birds singing and calling) forest or bush - or suburban street - is like a dead place.
Linda - our lovely next door neoghbours wrote a letter that got published in the local community newspaper accusing someone (us) of throwing cricket balls at her cat. Cricket balls are very hard balls - harder than a baseball and a little bit bigger than a tennis ball. It's just further nonsense. If their cat was frightened of us she wouldn't come near us. But she often does because she knows that Taylor and us humans are non threatening apart from telling her to go home.