This article is in French about German cats and in the spirit of internationalism and Catdom I paraphrase it!
In one Southern German town cats have to stay indoors for months. They are not allowed out to stop them eating the rare crested lark during its breeding season.
I love cats and birds, who is right?!!
Insolite. Bade-Wurtemberg : un passereau menacé, les chats confinés !
— Read on www.dna.fr/insolite/2022/05/18/bade-wurtemberg-un-passereau-menace-les-chats-confines
Cathy's real country garden 
I’m afraid I would insist on the cats being locked up. They are kept as pets and as such it is up to their owners to control them. Will the law decide or will public opinion win? Amelia
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Who knows? ( but it beats worrying about Russia!)
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It’s a rather contentious problem. I don’t agree with keeping cats indoors, and always thought that they should wear a collar with a small bell attached to warn birds. xx
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That is a diplomatic compromise to keep all happy! Xx
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The crested larks are very fortunate.
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I read something about this a while ago, but one conservationist said cats are only successful about 10% of the time they attempt to catch birds so habitat loss and climate change were bigger threats to the bird population. As it happens, my cat is a housecat but that’s mostly because we live near a busy road, though she did once manage to catch a sparrow that got stuck in our woodburner (luckily not in use at the time) and we had to rescue it from her jaws and release it.
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It is such a dilemma. Cats are real hunters . My cat had to stay in appartement for three years and he still managed to catch a pigeon that landed on the tiny balcony!
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