Cats on Leashes?
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Hey guys:
Thanks for the abundance of emails (most of which were very insightful and kind) on the dog waste story.
On the surface it seems like kind of a silly news story, but after reading a plethora of emails and talking to many more of you in person, I quickly came to realize how passionate you folks are about this issue.
Being a long time hard news reporter, this is not the kind of story I would have ever told before. But this is what the MESSED UP franchise is for. It was a story generated by you guys through my blog. I threw the idea out to all of you on a sounding board like this one and you let me know that it was an issue you wanted to talk about.
Glad to oblige.
Along those lines: a nice lady left me a message. She says Hendersonville has a law that mandates cats be kept on leashes. HMMMM. I’ve never heard that. She says it is a worthwhile ordinance since many cats run loose in her neighborhood and children have been scratched or bitten.
What do you guys think?
Is a cat on leashes story viable? Perhaps we’ve run the animal issue into the proverbial ground.
If her information is accurate, it was certainly an issue in Sumner County.
Let me know.
A.C.
