Posted on 09/08/2019 11:58:45 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Our cat just disappeared after several years. No smell, no buzzards, nothing. Don't have a clue. Anyone have a spayed/neutered cat or two to live out in the country and kill mice for a living (benefits supplied - i.e. extra food, medical, dental and vision). PM me here if you live in the area between Austin, San Antonio and Houston and we'll take care of it for you.
Want a Freeper cat. No liberal, leftist cats need apply (just joking). Wife sad. Wife is sunshine of life. Want wife happy again.
I can’t have one jumping up on counters where food is, so can’t live inside.
lol. Well, yes, I’m good at trapping them. But, she’s phobic about mice. Dead or alive, the latter is for what I strive, by making sure she doesn’t see either.
The shelters around me have barn cat programs just for this purpose. My boy was about to go into this program until I rescued him. He’s lazy and doesn’t really mouse but the rodent population is down. I can leave butter on the counter and it doesn’t get touched by the mice.
Paging MayflowerMadam. Maybe she has one to spare.
(When I die, I hope to come back as one of her (spoiled) cats !)
I have an outdoor daytime cat that comes in at night when I whistle. I have lost cats to coyotes so I trained this one when he was a kitten. He has only missed coming in one night in 3-1/2 years. He was young then and so happy to see us in the morning, it never happened again.
I remember the day I was sitting out front and my girl came running over with a snake in her mouth. I frigging panicked, she dropped it when she heard me shriek and panic. That fast the snake flew down a mole hole and thankfully was gone.
Not too smart. Made an A in school once and my grandma beat me 'cause she thought I cheated. (To borrow a good line....).
Many cats are killed by coyotes who are thriving in suburban areas.
I trained my kitten to stay off the counters. Yelling, shoving on floor...she got the idea. My last two cats were male, extremely affectionate. This one is female and she doesn’t cuddle at all. I think she’d be a fab hunter, but she’s an indoor girl unless I go out with her.
That’s funny you wrote that. My inside cat, I don’t think I’ve ever seen him on my counter, but it pisses me off if I leave my laptop open and go to bed and wake up and he’s sleeping there. That really bothers me.
HAHA very funny. ;-)
“I can’t have one jumping up on counters where food is”
We had six (now five). They never get on counters where food is, but one counter on the other side of the kitchen is a desk area. They know they can be there, and once in a while one or two will lie there watching me cook.
My fosters-like my pets have been taught nice indoor manners because they have been handled by humans from about 2 weeks after birth-that is done by all who foster kittens or puppies so they are human oriented-but they are mostly outdoor cats who sleep in the shed outside, and they are fine with that. They do like a litter box to use instead of the dirt-they are picky like that...
I’ve found that cats are like dogs in behavior-they can be trained-being ranch-raised and a country woman, I’m not squeamish about pets-dogs or cats being around food, but I know some people are-it gets a lot colder here than where you are, but I do hope you have a place for a cat/cats to stay warm in Winter-a shed, garage, storeroom, etc?
Mousers are not born, they’re made (taught) from mouser females.
Find 2 or 3 young barncats who have been raised in a barn and taught by their momma cat.
Either close your lap top or put one of those mats with rubber spikes on it. It does not harm them but it is uncomfortable and they will get off.
I was in the Woodlands a while back at 242 and 45 and on a side street had a coyote run across the street in front of me. I was shocked because unlike where I live (in the country), this area was about as residential as you can get. I guess lots of pets go missing there.
Where I live, I’ve never seen a coyote but then again I’ve always and still have multiple, outside dogs
Mine are very good about staying off the counter, and each one has an area of the kitchen floor they want their dish in at mealtime-my two gray tabby girls don’t even try to steal food or treats from my male orange persian-but that is likely because he weighs over 15 lbs, not because they are polite...
The average life expectancy of an outdoor cat is two to three years. Although it may seem that they are in a natural environment outside, they are the prey of many predators... if you want your cat to have a longer life, try to keep them indoors for a good part of the day ...especially at night
2020 is right around the corner.
You sure you don’t to trade your wife in for a newer model?
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