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Ok, don't have outdoor cats because they live short lives with high risk of dying painfully. They definitely do stalk feeders and add to the stressors already
by msrenee 3y ago
Ok, don't have outdoor cats because they live short lives with high risk of dying painfully.
They definitely do stalk feeders and add to the stressors already in place for bird species. More than one thing can contribute to the reduction of bird populations.
- nathan_compton 3y agoThis seems nuts to me. Keeping a cat in an apartment its entire life is psychological torture and almost all the indoor only cats I've ever met are neurotic. If you don't want to let your cat move freely, I suggest just not having one.
- msrenee 3y agoWhat do you consider neurotic in a cat? Have you known many people who own outdoor cats? It's a rare story that doesn't end with "then an asshole in a truck ran him down", "I think a coyote got him", "I think a hawk got him", "I never saw him again", "the neighborhood kids were chasing him with sticks", "found him nearly starved and bleeding", "lost a fight to a dog", or one of many other terrible ways to go. Every one of those is a true story from someone I know. The hawks, coyotes, and cars having happened to innumerable outdoor cats whose owners I've been acquainted with. So, in my opinion, if you think a cat can only live a decent life outdoors, you shouldn't get one.
- nathan_compton 3y agoEveryone and everything dies. You'd live longer in captivity too.
- msrenee 3y agoWhat behaviors of indoor cats do you define as neurotic?