On almost the far side the world, Israel agriculture minister Uri Ariel, a member of the Jewish Home party, on October 15, 2015 wrote to environment minister Avi Gabbay that sterilizing cats violates
traditional Jewish law, an interpretation almost unique to himself, and that therefore Israel should either «transfer feral cats
from one gender (all males or all females) to a foreign country,» or use
deodorants to keep tomcats
from smelling queens in heat.