Since we have plenty of threads to moan about dogs and dog owners, how about a bit of balance and a thread for the same about cats?
I, for one, am not a fan of the things and think there are too many around. And sure, while the problems they cause may be less obvious than dogs/dog ownership, I personally think they're worse in many ways. Particularly for the terrible effect they have on local wildlife and birds in particular.
On numerous occasions I've had the misfortune to come across birds and animals that have clearly been attacked by cats. One distressing incident occurred just a few weeks ago - on an evening walk I came across a domestic cat that had just attacked a tiny baby wild rabbit. Despite shooing the cat off and it still being alive when I got to it, it didn't survive.
Seeing that made me just want to go and give the bloody thing a boot up the backside.
Yet many cat owners seem to find this behaviour either a mildly amusing part of their cat ownership ("you'll never guess what my Tiddles caught the other day!"), or have no qualms about letting their cats roam freely and slowly kill all wildlife within a several mile radius. When really, they should just be kept indoors.
And if they were, there'd be far less of them that were always going bloody missing or being stupid enough to get themselves run over on the road.
Surely I can't be alone in my hatred of cats?!