Sure, the city could
use animal control resources, and taxpayer funds, to trap the harmless animals and take them to their city shelter where they would likely be killed.
3) BSL is such a huge waste of taxpayer money by
spending animal control resources, kenneling spaces, and legal services time defending the law by focusing so many resource on dogs that WERE NOT A PROBLEM.
When animal control resources are used to regulate or ban a certain breed, the focus is shifted away from effective enforcement of laws that have the best chances of making communities safer: dog license laws, leash laws, anti-animal fighting laws, anti-tethering laws, laws facilitating spaying and neutering and laws that require all owners to control their dogs, regardless of breed.
It must also be considered that if
limited animal control resources are used to regulate or ban a certain breed of dog, the focus is shifted away from routine, effective enforcement of laws that have the best chance of making communities safer: dog license laws, leash laws, animal fighting laws, anti-tethering laws, laws facilitating animal sterilization and laws that require guardians of all dog breeds to control their pets.
This method in no way will reduce the population of feral cats and means
valuable animal control resources are spent trapping one or two cats and then housing and euthanizing them.
And while they're at it, they could probably
use animal control resource to round up squirrels, and rabbits, and other mammels that live in these neighborhoods.
There are many reasons why trying to eradicate cats from the environment doesn't work: there are too many cats and not
enough animal control resources, removing one set of cats from a location where food and shelter is available creates a vacuum for a new set of cats to fill, the people who feed and care for the cats resist their capture, and the public is against euthanasia.
With
the animal control resources available it is impossible to trap every feral cat in a short enough time span to keep up with reproduction.
Animal control resources that now must be directed toward feral cats could be used to provide shelter and services for adoptable domestic cats.
True or false: a ban on declawing will cause massive relinquishment of cats to shelters, thus placing a large financial burden on the city's
animal control resources.