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Dogs in Grampians 5-Mar-2012 At 3:42:56 PM kuu

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On 5/03/2012 kieranl wrote:

(In response to One Day Hero):

>Had they engaged with us and been prepared to discuss the issue it would
>have been a different story.

I had an interesting experience once when confronting a cat owner who was transporting his supposedly exotic (but terrified) moggy up the bushwalker's route that follows the tail to the top of The Castle (Budawangs, NSW). "This is a very valuable cat. Do you think I'd let it get out of here into the wild?" he protested loudly. No acceptance of the fact that the cat's presence was contrary to the law and regulations governing National Parks.

Obviously he believed a different set of rules applied to owners of special, i.e, exotic breeds of pussy cats.

Should we allow these people to continue to contaminate the gene pool, or should we instead look at the possibility of designing a Doggie Bag equivalent for offending owners?