13th April 2013: Media article – “Cat curfew, containment laws needed”, The Border Mail

A LEADING conservation spokesman says domestic cat containment must be introduced in NSW. The chairman of Albury Conservation Company, David Sexton, said the ACT government this year legislatively expanded cat containment areas to new greenfield developments. Mr Sexton said it was the government’s aim to have cat containment areas across the ACT within three to five years. He said the NSW government should introduce similar legislation to curb domestic cats killing other wildlife.

“The possible cat predation figure in the Albury area could be between 132,000 to 500,000 mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs daily,” he said. “These figures are based on an average of 1.47 cats per Australian household (2006 census figure) and between 11,000 to 44,000 cats in the Albury areas predating an average of 12 targeted species a day”.

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