Australia weighs cat curfews and neutering requirements to rein in feral felines

A feral cat hides in a wooded area near a beach parking lot at Jones Beach State Park in Wantagh, N.Y. The American Bird Conservancy sued the state parks department in 2016 to have the cats removed because they were a threat to the endangered piping plover and the cat colony was relocated to cat sanctuaries. (Frank Eltman/AP)

The Australian government is looking for public feedback on a plan to tackle one of the country's most hairy issues: stray cats.

Stray cats — or "feral" cats, as they're called by Australian officials — kill more than 1.5 billion native mammals, birds, reptiles and frogs as well as 1.1 billion invertebrates in the country each year, the government says. They can also carry disease.