>> Keep them in the house and out of trouble.
Thanks for the well-meaning advice, but it won’t be happening in THIS household.
My kitty has her claws, and roams free (during the day — in at night though). And that’s how it’ll be.
However, she stays close to home and her place in the predator-prey cycle is just above lizards and cicadas. Occasionally a bird, but very rarely.
Anyway, she doesn’t make noise or crap on my truck, which is more than I can say for her feathered friends. Ever hear a mockingbird in the tree outside your bedroom at 2AM?
If your “kitty” consistently pissed and crapped around my house to the point where the urine smell would take your breath away it soon would spontaneously disappear.
Mockingbirds are not a problem here on the east slope of the Sierra.
Moles in the spring and summer, mice as they migrate towards the house as cold weather sets in, and the occasional snake, bird and lizard. She's always very happy to share her prizes with me, even if I do continue to decline them.
>Ever hear a mockingbird in the tree outside your bedroom at 2AM?
The reason the .410 shotgun was invented.