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A vegetarian!
Maybe he's a vegan
So cute. I miss my cats so much. ❤️
"Outdoor cats" are an invasive species that kill billions of animals every year, are a significant contributor to dozens of species' extinction, and live shorter lives than cats properly cared for (i.e. kept indoors) including nearly 3x the risk for infections.
It's a plague. We can't keep normalizing this.
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While I understand the sentiment, its a hard line. I waffle with it being sometimes impossible to avoid.
With that said, my parents have an outdoor cat still going from my middle school days; he's currently 23 y/o, and still able to hold his own. I'm always impressed visiting because I expect to hear he passed when in fact he's yelling about wet food not being available when he's makes his appearance. Most of his days are spent laying on their back porch, and I'm insanely jealous of how full and long of a life he's experienced.
It is far from impossible to avoid. If you can't control a cat and keep them indoors then you shouldn't have a cat. It's as easy as that.
If you have a kid and let them run in the road, no one will accept your excuse that it's just too hard. You either shouldn't have had a kid or you need to take responsibility for them, or have them taken from you. The same applies to a cat.
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I waffle with it being sometimes impossible to avoid.
Just close the door lol
There is nothing hard to avoid about your cat staying indoors. Stop it.
- It is categorically not ever "impossible to avoid". Not only is your cat statistically healthier indoors, but any excuse for why it's not possible is complete bullshit unless you can offer one up that isn't. Owning a pet is a responsibility, not a right; just because it's "harder" to take proper care of your pet doesn't absolve you of that responsibility.
- Anecdotes are not data. This is "I have a grandma who's 106 and she smokes 26 packs a day and drinks a pint of leaded gasoline before bed."
It is categorically not ever "impossible to avoid".
Exactly. It might be hard to keep a cat inside literally 100% of the time, but that's not an excuse. My cat has run out the door or knocked out the window screen a couple of times and been outside for a few hours before we noticed and caught her, but that certainly doesn't make her an "outdoor cat!"
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I mean, not everyone who smokes is gonna get cancer, but no one is gonnna say that smoking doesn’t have risks. Same with outside cats
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Going into your own backyard is a lot different than running through the neighborhood uninhibited.
you'd need a very special backyard to fence a cat in
My dad actually did this with their patio. It's fenced in with a 2.5m high net. Of course, this assumes the cat in question is docile enough to not want to climb it, which their current cat happens to be.
The whole reason for the fenced patio is because of their previous cat, which became blind at old age. So she could then still safely explore the outdoors.
You can do this, true. However, this obviously isn't true for this post because it implies it's normal for the other cats to bring in dead animals, which probably wouldn't happen in a screened in patio.
that's amazing! we currently keep ours indoors but i have plans for a catio
- I don't think most people's backyard is some kind of wildlife exclusion zone, and the problem isn't specifically that cats are killing animals in other backyards that the neighbors called "dibs" on first.
- The cat obviously isn't being attended to while it's outside.
- The owners clearly imply that their other two cats have done the same thing and brought them dead animals before.
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