Placing cats on leashes is deemed 'categorically wrong'
Putting domestic cats on a leash would deny them their unalienable right to roam, according to The European Union.
The EU’s executive said Thursday that it is “a strong defender of free movement rights — including of cats” and “categorically” denied it would ever force cats to be kept indoors or on a leash, as one scientific study suggests.
Free-ranging domestic cats “impact biodiversity through predation, disturbance, competition, disease and hybridisation,” Tilburg University scientists wrote in Oxford’s Journal of Environmental Law.
They added that the predatory impact is worse than often assumed.
They argued that EU laws and directives could effectively force owners to keep them indoors or on a leash outdoors.
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