Websites about existing and proposed laws affecting cats and cat ownership. 1. Cat Fanciers' Association Legislative Committee - Provides guidance to individuals or member clubs opposing unreasonable animal control legislation in their geographic area. Position statements and articles. 2. Cats Must be on Leads - A Hungarian town has issued a regulation that cats must be keep on leads. 3. CFA: Pedigreed Cats Face Extinction - Concern about the effects that the cat control laws will have on pedigreed cat breeding. 4. Dartmouth College Library: Cats - Commentary on a message by Governor of Illinois, Adlai Stevenson when he vetoed a 1949 cat bill passed by the state legislature. 5. Law Library Resource Xchange: The Domestic Cat and the Law - Guide to history, cases, legislation and texts. 6. Loony Laws about Animals - Remarkable laws about cats and other animals that have been passed. 7. NAIA: Dogs Will Be Dogs, But Cats Won't - An article by Anna Sadler about laws that lump dog and cat issues together. 8. National Animal Interest Alliance: Cats “There Ought to be a Law” - Anna Sadler looks at issues arising from “cat laws”. 9. National Pet Alliance Opposition to Coercive Legislation - Support to individuals and groups to assist in stopping coercive legislation. 10. Ordinance Limiting Number of Cats per Residence - Report on the Pennsylvania Court decision to strike down an ordinance that limited the number of cats that could be maintained in a single residence. 11. San Mateo County Pet Overpopulation Ordinance: A Legislative Failure - An evaluation of elements of the San Mateo ordinance with recommendations. 12. Santa Clara County Survey of Pet Population - Report of a scientific survey of pet ownership in Santa Clara County, California with recommendations. 13. SFSPCA's Report on Cat Licensing - SPCA of San Francisco's analysis of the uses and drawbacks of cat licensing proposals. 14. The Cat and the Law - How the law has treated cats throughout history. 15. Gazette.Net: County Proposes Letting Cats Roam if They'll Behave - A proposal, referred to as a “cat leash law” has been dropped by the Duncan administration. 16. Gazette.Net: Duncan Backtracks over Cat Control - County Executive Douglas Duncan orderes the county attorney to water down the proposed ban on cat roaming. 17. Gazette.Net: Keeping Felines in Line - Articles and reader responses to a Maryland county's attempt to restrict cats to their owners' property. 18. New South Wales: Companion Animals Act 1998 - Australian state law that includes a provision for the control of cats. 19. Victorian Domestic (Feral and Nuisance) Animals Act 1996 - Australian state law that includes a provision for the control of cats.[PDF and Word document] 20. Why Not Coercive Legislation? - The drawbacks of legislation as a solution to pet overpopulation issues.

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