Eau Claire’s Sustainability Advisory Committee is considering making a recommendation to city council regarding outdoor cats.
At issues are domestic cats who are allowed to run free outside and pose a threat to birds and other small animals. The American Bird Conservancy reports that outdoor cats kill about two-point-four billion birds every year in the United States. The advisory committee is considering a recommendation to make it illegal to allow cats outdoors without a leash, to require that cats be spayed or neutered unless permitted for breeding, and that licensing fees and cat-related fines be increased.
