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These dangerous animals should be banned unless the owner submits to a 1000 hour course on cat handling and management. Licensure should include required unannounced home inspections at least annually to insure secure confinement and humane treatment.
Cat attack nearly kills elderly owner.

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>>These dangerous animals should be banned unless the owner submits to a 1000 hour course on cat handling and management. Licensure should include required unannounced home inspections at least annually to insure secure confinement and humane treatment.
>>Cat attack nearly kills elderly owner.

And don't forget, we need to declare martial law so we can use our police and armed forces to try to kill all feral cats. Given Burmese pythons are so injurious, wouldn't that be a proportional response?

Yes, and not only that, but this incident actually happened in my neighborhood, only a few blocks from my house. I have been having nightmares and live in abject terror that this animal could escape and attack and kill me. I have not set foot outside of my reptile room since I read this article. I feel safe there knowing my boas and pythons would come to my aid if the cat entered my house.

Several years ago in my area a man was put in the hospital by a feral cat. True story. He had been putting food out for it for a while and one day it appeared to be injured. He tried to pick it up to see how bad the injury was and it scratched and/or bit him. The cat was carrying some kind of bacteria and the man got septicemia and almost died.

This is a good example of why it's stupid, IMHO, to direct too many resources to animal control. Most of the time when somebody gets hurt it's either a fluke accident or it the person's own carelessness and stupidity. No amount of legislation is going to prevent such mishaps and we could spend millions of tax dollars on creating and enforcing stupid laws and the occasional fluke accident is still going to happen.
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