Googling for other articles in this with more details, it looks the places that have implemented cat curfews are requiring cats to be indoors at night.
That's interesting, because in the US most concern over cats killing other animals is for birds and those birds are almost all diurnal. The non-birds cats kill a lot of are also mostly diurnal or crepuscular (active around sunrise and sunset). The nocturnal animals cats kill seem to be mostly things that most people are happy to have them kill (rats and mice).
So in the US if there was a cat curfew I'd expect it to be that cats have to be indoors by dawn, and can't be let out until the end of twilight.
A cat curfew at night in Australia suggests that it is nocturnal animals Australians are worried about. Which animals are those?
Are cats not as big a problem for diurnal animals there because those animals are scary Australian animals that cats are afraid to fuck with, or scary Australian animals that people are happy to have cats get rid of?
I would not be drawing connections to reality from government actions. California imposed COVID curfew [1] just because they could, not because the viruses are nocturnal. At best, if there was actually any thought put into it at all, it's to trap feral cats at night, when they are most active, and if any house cat gets trapped too the owner can be told to get stuffed and ticketed for violating the curfew.
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Googling for other articles in this with more details, it looks the places that have implemented cat curfews are requiring cats to be indoors at night.
That's interesting, because in the US most concern over cats killing other animals is for birds and those birds are almost all diurnal. The non-birds cats kill a lot of are also mostly diurnal or crepuscular (active around sunrise and sunset). The nocturnal animals cats kill seem to be mostly things that most people are happy to have them kill (rats and mice).
So in the US if there was a cat curfew I'd expect it to be that cats have to be indoors by dawn, and can't be let out until the end of twilight.
A cat curfew at night in Australia suggests that it is nocturnal animals Australians are worried about. Which animals are those?
Are cats not as big a problem for diurnal animals there because those animals are scary Australian animals that cats are afraid to fuck with, or scary Australian animals that people are happy to have cats get rid of?
I would not be drawing connections to reality from government actions. California imposed COVID curfew [1] just because they could, not because the viruses are nocturnal. At best, if there was actually any thought put into it at all, it's to trap feral cats at night, when they are most active, and if any house cat gets trapped too the owner can be told to get stuffed and ticketed for violating the curfew.
1. https://www.kcra.com/article/california-limited-curfew-covid...