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cement I'd actually love to build a nice big cat run, unfortunately I am merely a tenant and have Buckley's chance of getting permission to do such things.
My area of suburbia is actually quite devoid of any terrestrial natives unfortunately. As are the rest of the new suburban areas springing up all around my neck of the woods. Only things I have ever seen here are mice.
Dogs are trainable, and sure, can be trained not to interfere with wildlife, but I've never met a dog owner who has done so. So that falls back to dog owners. Just saying.
@kingo***obbys are you familiar with how they find new land for these monstrosities of housing estates? By bulldozing everything. Two Km from my house they cleared a huge nature reserve, putting houses and roads and all that. Not a single tree left standing. What creatures will stay put while all that is going on? Sorry mate but you've got to be kidding yourself if you believe any kind of native population can be maintained after the scorched earth policy that is urban expansion. Trust me, I know, I earned a living building these estates for ten years.
I also do not like my cats on the loose for a multitude of reasons including but not limited to destruction of wildlife, native or otherwise but one does get out on occasion. Luckily the other one is dead terrified of the great outdoors.
Anyway I'm stepping out of this thread now.