Posted on 09/28/2016 1:45:32 PM PDT by beaversmom
Roaming kitty ping...
They did a huge documentary [British] on cat roaming stats. Some cats don’t roam far ... but many go several blocks and more away. i have chihuahuas now instead of cats ... but I would only have indoors cats these days.
“So we can limit the impact of cats on wildlife”
Truly Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Interested to see vid and/or read an article on that. I’ll have to look that up later.
I have 30 trained attack cats. Specifically designed to hunt endangered species such as rhinos and Portuguese Llamas. ARL beware!
Its like having a POS kid.
Parents don’t want to accept your kid/cat sucks
I decided when I adopted a stray kitten to make it an indoor only cat.
I get annoyed when someone’s cat craps in my yard or has kittens under my shed, or defiles the inside of my boat. Makes me want to strangle the cat and owner. So keeping my cat home prevents it from damaging someone’s property and keeps it from getting killed by an irate property owner. Not to mention the whole squashed cat on the highway thing.
I have five cats and a dog. Only one of the cats cares about going out, and he lives for it. He would be a wreck if he was not allowed to go out.
We live in a community in which nobody has fences, so we have to walk the dog to let her do her business. The outside cat always walks with us down the street the last (after dark) walk of the day. People always comment about the cat following us.
No toy you can buy a cat is better received than a plain old box. Paper grocery bags are up there, too.
< shrug >
Play commences ... bag slams onto the board containing the cat. Cat explodes out of the hole as if rocket-propelled!
ROFL!
When we toss the boxes we always announce “Cat traps...Engaged!”
They are NOT easy to find. I found the first two ... there are 3 or 4. By the BBC: 50 cats were put under surveillance 24v hours a day to find out far they roamed from their villages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0kOJNjpN-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6i0T3vkzr0
Yes, We have always kept ours indoors too, and for the same reasons.
I believe he would have been perfectly in his right to shoot my cat dead.
Not all people would be agreeable to my plan and it is certainly understandable.
I'm lucky he does like cats.
The breakoff rings from milk jug caps work too.
We have bird, squirrel and chipmunk feeding stations set up all over our yard. Very fun to watch, especially all the varieties of birds, and the ruckus the squirrels raise when you go into their territory is fun to watch.
Then along comes mommy & her kittens. They are so cute. Now there are few birds to watch & no squirrels. Feeding them only encourages them to stay, and they will still hunt, it’s their instinct.
Fortunately nature will take care of the cats, they will likely freeze to death as do most feral critters up here, or not find food once everything hibernates/disappears and the coyotes will have a feast when they get too weak to defend themselves.
Exactly my thoughts. Cats ARE animals, whatever impact they have is natural.
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