Letters: Don't pussyfoot around with unwanted animals

Cute killer? A reader says humane euthanasia will stop the feral cat problem in New Zealand. Photo / File

I read the heartbreaking article about large numbers of unwanted cats and dogs inundating animal rescue shelters. Although not about Rotorua specifically I am assuming the situation is much the same here.

It said warming temperatures (global warming) is causing year-round breeding.

Unless such organisations as the SPCA are prepared to get political and make law changes I can't see anything changing anytime soon.

Nationwide microchipping should be compulsory and owners held to account.

New Zealand has a large feral cat problem but it is out of sight and out of mind.

Humane euthanasia is preferable to neuter and release. A cat may not be able to breed but it can still kill birds.

As long as we continue to pussy foot around this issue, unwanted cats in particular will breed and live miserable lives.

Lesley Haddon
Rotorua

Empty houses

Mr and Mrs Holden, (Letters, July 24) please do not think for one minute that I am targeting people such as yourselves in regard to Airbnbs.

The objects of my scorn are the complete houses that stand empty between the times of letting. Yours is a bread and breakfast without the breakfast, and as you so rightfully say you do not affect the housing market one jot.

Jim Adams
Rotorua

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