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Yeah - a pet so loved that it is allowed to go stray - to other people’s property, causing trouble for the neighbors. I don’t know about you, but cat pee is one of the nastiest smells I know. IT nearly rivals fresh chicken litter to my nose. It is the smell of cat pee that keeps them banned from my home.

If you love your pet, you don’t let it roam freely. Period. The cat could have just as easily been hit by a car, killed by a dog, etc.

Further - many municipalities require pet owners to prove that the pet is current on rabies vaccinations, and levy fines for not complying. I don’t know many cat owners that even bother with most vaccines - and I know none that allow their cats to roam outside freely that bother with any vaccines. Isn’t that disease waiting to happen?

Many cats like to pee on tires nearly as much as dogs. But most dog urine isn’t nearly as putrid or irritating as feline wiz.

All my 4 cats are spayed/neutered, have current rabies vaccinations, and wear collars with tags to prove it, and they all roam freely outside. The most recently deceased of my cats was 21 years old when he died, and was still roaming the garden happily the day before he died.

Any cat owner who ever takes their cat to a vet is getting it vaccinated for rabies. I’ve never known any vet who would do anything — not even a simple exam — without making sure the cat has a current rabies vaccine or giving it one, and I think most if not all states have laws requiring that. If you never take your cat to the vet and you also let it roam outside, it’s not clear that you’re a “cat owner” — if ownership of the cat was ever disputed, you’d be hard-pressed to show that your relationship to the cat was anything but a person who feeds the stray and sometimes lets it in your home.

Neutered male cats don’t have that “special” smell to their urine. As far as I know, everywhere that it’s legal to let cats roam free, it’s contingent on thier being spayed/neutered as well as vaccinated, and that’s how it should be.

I don’t believe that a cat marks with urine. I think it comes from a gland, and they squirt it on whatever. It is difficult to wash off, but can be. It is sprayed on windows, walls, cars, trees, flowers, and even the sidewalk.

Cat pee is like a lite skunk spray. It's also probably why our neighborly neighbors encourage their pets to use someone else's yard for a litter box. My dog almost killed a little kitten that found it's way into our yard. Fortunately, it made it to a thorny rose bush and I was able to get it and take it home...shaken up a bit. That cat never came back to our yard.

Now that our dogs are deceased, I have some neighborly neighbors cat pissing my children's sandbox. I guess we need a new dog!