#outdoor cat
Bored in isolation let’s start this old drama again. You are a bad pet owner if you willfully ignore all the evidence of how bad outdoor cats are to the environment, other pets, humans and cats themselves. And I hope for the sake of your cats you don’t learn that the hard way.
My aunts cat was poisoned, almost hit by a car many times, attacked by many animals (birds, raccoons, maybe a fox?) and came back with giant wounds, had a seizure likely from being poisoned again, someone attempted to drown him, and then he was poisoned one last time, which killed him.
She truly couldn’t control these behaviors because he wasn’t her cat to begin with, but whoever had him first and allowed him outdoors to make him an outdoor cat is why he’s been through all of that (and probably more, can’t remember). He had a long life despite all that and we honestly have no fucking clue how he managed to live that long, but your cat probably won’t be as lucky.
Don’t let your cats get used to going outdoors. Because then they will always want to. And they’ll fight you to get out. And find ways out. And then you have to worry about all those things.
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contemplating
We closed up the screened in porch for the winter last November. As the snow melted and the squirrels became more plentiful, the cats have been dyingto get back out there.
Even though it was in the mid-40s, we thought the cats could enjoy a good hour of porch time. Figuring they would perch on the top of the chairs and let their nostrils take in all the scents, Link, instead, zeroed in on the cat nip plant that croaked last August*.
Fresh air? Who needs it! Dead cat nip is where it’s at.
*Don’t ask why it was still out there. Sometimes it takes me a while to get to things.
The One With The Feral Cat
For a few years, we had upwards of six feral cats living under our back porch. The herd has thinned, but there is still one shady looking cat hanging around. I named him Ivan because he looks like a mangy Russian Blue.
Yesterday, it was 20 degrees and Ivan was pissedthat my cats were looking at him from the comfort of the indoors.
My favorite part is Link’s “did you see that look?” to Winston at the end.
