WTF: Indoor/Outdoor Cats

Lerxst

Lerxst

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Help me understand this whole indoor/outdoor cat as a pet thing where your cat is able to roam the neighborhood, shit & piss in other peoples' property, kill random birds & animals and owner just shrug their shoulders and say, 'oh well, I can't deprive them of their natural tendencies'. WTF kinda head up your ass logic is that?
 
Lerxst said:
Help me understand this whole indoor/outdoor cat as a pet thing where your cat is able to roam the neighborhood, shit & piss in other peoples' property, kill random birds & animals and owner just shrug their shoulders and say, 'oh well, I can't deprive them of their natural tendencies'. WTF kinda head up your ass logic is that?
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ok boomer
 
When I had a farm, and a huge barn, it was perfect. We had 6 acres and my cats, somehow, knew where the property lines were. They hunted on our property, slept on warm hay at night, and were the happiest cats I'd ever seen. This is a relatively uncommon, ideal scenario. I too have wondered about people in populated areas, like my current townhouse complex, that do this. One of my neighbors does, and it's fine with me as I like to see them roaming about, but I agree that it's a bit odd.
 
Guitar Heel said:
I too have wondered about people in populated areas, like my current townhouse complex, that do this. One of my neighbors does, and it's fine with me as I like to see them roaming about, but I agree that it's a bit odd.
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I have at least 5 cats that use my small backyard as a litter box and have to pick up cat shit daily.


A neighbor was complaining how thoughtless it is that people are petting her cat while it roams the neighborhood and potentially exposing her to conrona virus when it comes home.
 
A neighbor of mine has a mostly outdoor unfixed female cat that inevitably had a litter of adorable tuxedo kittens about a year ago. He just let them go feral. :flamemad:

I still see them around, but not as many. Who knows what happened to them. The whole thing is sad and infuriating.
 
I had a cat, indoor, that got out one day. This was in rural Alabama in the mountains up north. 4 months later he showed back up looking fit as a fiddle and I could leave the door standing open and he wouldn't take off.
He had seen things, that cat. Terrible, terrible things.
 
I live right on the edge of town, any further out and you are in the country. I have four neighbors, plus a house that is across the street but further down towards town.

Cats roaming about aren't a big deal. Two houses down toward town have a couple of outdoor cats, one of which thinks he's my next-door neighbors cat. And the house across the street further down has a really fluffy chocolate brown cat that will wander by occasionally. Really skittish, but once you can get her to come up to you and she lets you pet her, she's a sweetheart.
 
My cats have always been indoor cats. Where I live now people see keeping cats indoor as cruel. Doesn't mean I'm sending a 14 year old cat that has never been outside off into the woods. To me, that seems more cruel than just petting my cat in my living room.
 
Carol and I have had three cats, though two are no longer with us. None of the three have ever shown interest in going outside, and that is fine by us. Declawing a cat is no longer something that most vets will do' It is a pain at times, but we invited them into our life and our house and we deal with it.
 
I live on the edge of 10k+ acres of wilderness. Our 2 cats are indoor/outdoor and always will be. They are of course part of the food chain, and are as at risk as any bird, lizard, gopher, mole or snake in the neighborhood (if you want to call it that). Our cats usually shit in my wifes favorite flower pots, as do other cats in the area. I'm sure our cats also crap in other peoples yards, but nearly every cat we have ever had or seen buries their shit. We have mountain lions, bobcats, deer, skunks, raccoons, herons, hawks, squirrels, you name it on and around our property. Not really seeing how our 2 cats do not fit in perfectly. We do bring them in at night because that is prime hunting time for mountain lions. And yeah, we have had a couple cats disappear over the years. That's just how it goes.

So, while we may be the exception, I'm not really interested in hearing how our cats are an environmental hazard to anyone or anything. YMMV.
 
Rick 381 said:
If I had a cat it would be de-clawed because I want the grill cloth on my amps.

BTW, explain to me the need for an indoor cat to have claws.
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Baby, they were born that way. You ever watch a de clawed cat try and scratch a flea. LOL. And as stated earlier, many vets refuse to de claw a cat.

Aside from spay & neuter, I don't modify pets.
 
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