4 November 2010

Desexing laws all hat and no cattle

| johnboy
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On the ABC the RSPCA is coming to terms with the reality that the ACT Government is great at making laws, but rubbish at compliance.

The issue worrying the RSPCA (but part of a broader pattern for the rest of us) is cat desexing:

ACT laws require cats to be desexed but he RSPCA says there has been a steady increase in the number of stray cats over the last five years.

But RSPCA ACT chief executive Michael Linke says the Government needs to do more to control the problem.

“We’ve got some really good animal welfare laws here in the ACT. We were one of the first states to introduce mandatory desexing laws and that was 10 years ago,” he said.

“But essentially there’s been no advertising, no marketing. The Government hasn’t invested in low-cost desexing clinics. They could fund me a couple of hundreds-of-thousands of dollars extra a year and I could do desexing procedures for free through my clinic. Little things like that.

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