Dogsey

I say again, ALL dmoesticated animals should be restrained at ALL times.
I fully believe that a responsible owner should NEVER allow any animal under their charge to run free.
There is way too much damage done by free roaming domestic animals.

Musher, you can't confine cats indoors but owners can't be responsible for any damage they cause.

Cats do a great job in keeping vermin down in country areas. Every farmer knows that. As far as I know no cat has ever worried a sheep. Totally responsible ownership to keep vermin down

Megsy
I responded to post responding to my post regarding the story "Police and dog crime group....."
Since I don't know how to reply privately my responce is in the public. Please feel free to view it.
Also, cats can be confined indoors here. It's an option that some people employ for the well being of their adopted responsibilities.
To add,
The Forest Tent Caterpillar, the Japanese Longihorn Beetle, the European Starling, the English House Sparrow, the Norway Rat, the Dutch Elm Beetle, Scotch Thistle, Burdock, Purple Loosestrife to name but a few are introduced species and are considered as pests/vermin/varmints here.

A few years ago we had a Fisher come and reside in the area. It stayed for a full 2 winters.
It killed and ate the cats for miles around.
In 2 years we started hearing bird songs we hadn't heard for 25 years. He cleaned up the vermin.

We have fox, coyote, weasel, mink, badger, lynx, fisher, skunk, a few species of owl, a few species of hawk and even ravens, crows and shrikes as well as snakes to keep vermin in check.
Sad thing, pets sometimes pay the ultimate price of irresponsible pet ownership by becoming vermin.

Where I live European Starlings are shot, poisoned, killed in the nest by practically any means. They are a prolific and very invasive species competing with many native species for food sources and living space. Eg., It takes over endemic woodpecker nestholes that were just made by the woodpeckers.
There were only 6 prs brought to North Amreica as pets.
Now they number in the millions.
Evidently a huge difference in belief what is considered vermin.
I have owned/adopted cats and loved them as dear friends. The last died of old age at 21 human years but a few years ago I became cognizant domestic cats are very destructive to the endemic/native/natural ecosystem.
In my world cats are now vermin.

We don't have sheep either. Their dung carries an enzyme that is deadly to buffaloe. Out of an estimated 60-80 million there are apparently about 40,000 left and some of them are hybridized to domestic bovine. Too few buffaloe to have sheep around them. Vermin
Good thing bout buffaloe, cats don't bother them at all.

Vastly different lives. Not wrong, just different.

Cheetah has been an indoor cat for almost 12 years, however I always intended to let her out once I bought a house with enough land.

With regards to the story, and Musher's comment, some dogs are absolutely fine with livestock (Rocky was) but others aren't - it's all down to the owner really, they should act responsibly if they think their dog is reactive in that way.