There are no breeding laws in BC anywhere for any species. There are mandatory spay/neuter bylaws for cats in some lower mainland municipalities, but they are only "round up and kill" laws, worse for cats than nothing. But they did attract a lot of attention from the media for the proponents and we presume, lots of donations.

Here are the details of that lousy legislation ....again...

Round-up and kill cat bylaws http://www.animaladvocates.com/cgi-bin/newsroom.pl/read/3848

We hope the well-meaning, but not well-informed animal lovers in Powell River read this and understand why to mimic these bad laws is a bad idea.

After the SPCA has spent the money necessary to spay every cat whose owners will permit it to, then the SPCA has to demand breeding regulations for those who want to breed. Only cats that reproduce are the problem, not every cat.

AAS put together a proposal for cat breeding regulations in 1997 but they were ignored in favour of the round-up-and-kill bylaws that we are afraid Powell River is going to copy. You can read them here: http://www.animaladvocates.com/too-many-cats.htm