Note that cat shows and animal preserves would be exempt from federal regulation. Also note that the Hemingway Museum neither sells cats nor puts on shows where the cats perform for money. Instead they primarily preserve descendants of Hemingway’s 6 toed cats.

And, the thing is, that’s not what the Executive Branch is supposed to be doing. The intent was that the people would have as direct a say as possible in the laws of the land. And, presumably, if we determined that a particular lawmaker was not making the laws as we wanted, we could vote for someone else who would.

But you don’t get to vote for the people in the FAA, or the FDA, or any of those organizations.

Regulation is everywhere……

First, the cats are not identified as feral cats but as descendants of a pet.
The museum appears to promote the cats as part of the Hemingway heritage.

In your case, if you had 40-50 even feral cats which you fed and cared for (as apparently the museum does) living on and overrunning your property, as a non-exhibitor you might be charged with cruelty to animals for failing to care for the cats or in one of the wonderful twists of animal law, for failing to eradicate them.

There are plenty of news stories about ‘cat ladies’ charged with this offense.

Citizens elected representatives; the representatives passed a law; the law was enforced. How else would you like it to work?

I’m less okay with the fact that this is a regulatory action performed by the Federal bureaucracy, rather than a legislative action performed by the Congress. As in most of these cases, none of the people involved have any reason to expect reprisal for their actions; even if all 350 million people in the United States hate them, they’re guaranteed forty years behind the desk and a nice pension afterwards. The closest we get to voting for the people going after Hemingway’s cats is that their boss’s boss’s boss’s boss is the President.

Over ‘n out.