Pensioners can keep cats
PA Dunedin Dunedin pensioners are allowed to keep cats in City Council flats. Dunedin had been one of few centres in the South bland prohibiting cats in council-owned pensioner flats. A meeting of the services committee has voted to change that. Guidelines will be prepared for keeping cats in the flats. It is certain that they will have to be spayed. Cr Jean McLean said she did not know how pensioners could part with their cats when they went into a flat.
“I think it is cruel,” she said.
The council’s decision followed up a survey on the value of cat ownership to elderly women living alone. The survey, conducted by an Otago University psychology student, showed that the advantages of owning a cat were affection, company, and having something to talk to.
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Press, 9 May 1985, Page 14
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