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If cats escape from their house, either the owners behave like royal a-holes with them, or very likely they were not spayed/neutered. I'm sorry for some self de

If cats escape from their house, either the owners behave like royal a-holes with them, or very likely they were not spayed/neutered. I'm sorry for some self defined animal lovers, but by not spaying/neutering a domestic cat they're actually harming it, in a very cruel way. Cats aren't people: many times during their life they feel the absolute urge to reproduce and cannot fight against this need with reasoning like humans because it's purely an instinct that can become stressful and very dangerous for their physical and mental health if not satisfied. I've had family members who were against spaying/neutering and had all their cats escape, even multiple times by throwing themselves off the balcony (2nd floor luckily, they all survived), and all of them eventually developed very aggressive behavior against humans although they definitely were house cats. All my cats (all neutered) never tried to escape from our old city apartment, aside the obvious exploring the hall beyond the house door, and now that we live in a small town in a cottage with garden and trees my two cats both enjoy wandering around the property, but they eventually come home for the night. It wasn't that easy: they had to fight for territory since this property has been kept empty for years so that it was easily taken by the neighborhood cats, but so far it looks like our cats won.

fullstop 3y ago
> If cats escape from their house, either the owners behave like royal a-holes with them, or very likely they were not spayed/neutered. Hard disagree here. All four of my cats are spayed or neutered and the one is determined to go out and explore. She will sneak behind your back and fly through the door as it closes. She looks peaceful and sleeping across the room, but don't let that fool you -- she springs to life and flies out the door when you least expect it. She once escaped through a basement window, about 6 feet above the floor with no objects below it, through a gap which was just a few inches wide. I got her back about three days later by setting up a motion activated camera and a bowl of food outside. I've fostered over 50 cats now so I feel like I know and understand their behavior pretty well by this point.
- squarefoot 3y ago
  > All four of my cats are spayed or neutered and the one is determined to go out and explore. We don't disagree here, I never wrote that neutered/spayed cats don't want to explore, that's normal behavior for every feline out there, but that those who aren't can suffer a lot from being forced home. For cats which aren't spayed or neutered it isn't just about exploring anymore but satisfying their urge to mate, and they won't return until that need is satisfied, if they do.
  - fullstop 3y ago
    My choices were being an ahole or the cat wasn't spayed / neutered though.
pazimzadeh 3y ago
"my cats are this way therefore everyone's cats are this way"

fullstop 3y ago

> If cats escape from their house, either the owners behave like royal a-holes with them, or very likely they were not spayed/neutered. Hard disagree here. All four of my cats are spayed or neutered and the one is determined to go out and explore. She will sneak behind your back and fly through the door as it closes. She looks peaceful and sleeping across the room, but don't let that fool you -- she springs to life and flies out the door when you least expect it. She once escaped through a basement window, about 6 feet above the floor with no objects below it, through a gap which was just a few inches wide. I got her back about three days later by setting up a motion activated camera and a bowl of food outside. I've fostered over 50 cats now so I feel like I know and understand their behavior pretty well by this point.

squarefoot 3y ago
> All four of my cats are spayed or neutered and the one is determined to go out and explore. We don't disagree here, I never wrote that neutered/spayed cats don't want to explore, that's normal behavior for every feline out there, but that those who aren't can suffer a lot from being forced home. For cats which aren't spayed or neutered it isn't just about exploring anymore but satisfying their urge to mate, and they won't return until that need is satisfied, if they do.
- fullstop 3y ago
  My choices were being an ahole or the cat wasn't spayed / neutered though.

pazimzadeh 3y ago

"my cats are this way therefore everyone's cats are this way"