Cat poop or wild animal droppings? Warning; pile picture!

Just want to know where the numbers come from that say cats catch so many birds. Yes, cats eat birds and yes, the birds are decreasing. Yes, there are too many cats, which is partly because there is still no mandatory neutering. In the past, there were dense hedges everywhere (now called bird protection hedges) that no predators could get through. Here, it still chirps so loudly that sometimes earplugs are needed to sleep.

I don't know the right of self-defense at all. But it certainly will not involve a cat AA. I think the strength of the objection is less decisive.

It will probably be examined which good weighs more: cat life against enduring or cleaning up feces. I suspect everyone considers life as more valuable, even if it is only one thing. But I don't actually know.

Hello kaho

I am also not very familiar with the justified emergency, which certainly applies to the problem. My field is the right of self-defense. Not as a lawyer, more as a practitioner. However, I doubt your weighting. Your legal interest is currently being violated (cat pooping in your garden), you are not allowed to prevent it (prevention would only be possible with a slingshot and steel balls) because the harmful thing (cat), which is currently pooping in your garden, weighs more than the inviolability of the thing (cat). That would be already strange.

Steven

Steven

With us, there is still so much chirping that sometimes earplugs are needed to sleep.

Hello haydee

that may be (subjectively) true.
But take a look at the decline of ground-nesting birds. (there are certainly more factors for this, but one of them is cats). they are dramatic. If nothing happens soon, these birds will soon be extinct in Europe.
When was the last time you saw a lapwing? When the numbers of larks from before? Or quails, pheasants?

Steven

however, I doubt your weighting. Your legal right is currently being violated (cat poops in your garden), you are not allowed to prevent it (prevention would only be possible with a slingshot and steel balls) because the harmful thing (cat), which is currently pooping all over your garden, weighs more than the integrity of the thing (cat). that would be rather strange.

Well, that is probably a matter of interpretation that can vary from judge to judge. However, I think that killing is not the only means of choice. You can first try defense. The new beepers, scent pellets, scarecrows, I don't know. Then reaching an agreement with the neighbor is the next step. As far as I know, if at all, killing should not be done with a firearm in a residential area.

I’ll ask my sister-in-law, she’s a lawyer, when I get the chance.

I think both sides are somewhat right. The cats cause a lot of damage. But it is peanuts compared to agriculture or urban and road construction, etc.

. The killing should, as far as I know, if at all, not be carried out with a firearm in a residential area.

Hello kaho

no, of course not with a firearm. Only a hunter is allowed to do that.
That's why I wrote about a slingshot. It is not a firearm. Just like a crossbow. Or bow and arrow. That is the definition according to the Weapons Act.

Steven