@Iminaglasscaseofemotion
Yes ban all dogs from all beaches, ban them from parks, make people keep them on leads at all times 🙄. Yet I can't leave my back door open or my windows open too wide because my neighbours cat comes in and eats the dogs food, or lies in my kids fucking beds, and there's about 6 in the street that wander around my garden, shitting in the flower bed, all out hunting birds and other animals, keeping everyone in street awake at night with their screeching. Apparently though everyone just finds it quite funny and acceptable for cats to kill other animals and enter other peoples property because they're cats so there's nothing that can be done.
I find it strange how a thread about protecting nesting birds from dogs on beaches has transpired into a thread about dog shit then about nuisance cats. Last time I checked cats aren’t a threat to nesting birds on beaches 🤔
You are in the minority with your cat problem. Most owners neuter their cats and actively discourage them from hunting (eg, bells on collars). At the end of the day there isn’t the same legislation around controlling cats that there is around controlling dogs because cats just aren’t that potentially dangerous. I have never stepped in cat shit, had to clean dog muck off my boots on Thursday. People are a much greater threat to our native song birds as we are destroying their natural habitat, yet we blame the cats. Scapegoat much. Leave the poor cats alone. They get a tough enough deal as it is.