“More than 10,000 cats are missing each year. Elders often have to spend long months in a refuge, which could quite be avoided. ” For the National Green Councilor Meret Schneider, the solution is simple: to make catage of cats compulsory, as is the case for dogs. Although its motion was supported by the Federal Council, it was rejected on Tuesday by the National.
With a recording in a database, the elected Zurich saw the advantage of being able to quickly report a lost animal and contact the owner once the animal found. A shared opinion Identitas SA, a company specializing in pet data and rent. Meret Schneider already imagined a reduction in expenditure of the municipalities and organizations involved in the research and management of stray cats.
One way also to learn more about intensive farming, cat trade or even sales on specialized platforms. Puting for everyone would also be practical for questions of civil liability in the event of an accident, underlined the Zurichoise.
For its part, the Federal Council hoped to be able to “fight against uncontrolled cat populations” and “better monitor epizootics and zoonoses”. The opportunity, moreover, to have “a detailed view” of the number of cats, their origin or their distribution in Switzerland, expressed the socialist federal councilor Élisabeth Baume-Schneider.
But the motion has attracted reluctance for economic reasons. The Vaudois UDC Sylvain Freymond estimated that this “would require everyone an additional administrative and financial burden, without real added value”. “The capture and publication of stray cats would be a considerable effort, very expensive and unrealizable in practice,” completed the national councilor. Before the Valais centrist Philipp Matthias Bregy worries about the “number of positions and costs caused by the introduction, maintenance and control of these chips”. Statu quo therefore: Puting for cats remains possible on a voluntary basis.
