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He also picks fights with neighbour cats and dogs and loses every time, costing me a fortune in vet bills. I love him.
Stop letting your cat outside.
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Some cats are escape artists- my timeshare cat is a verified cat burglar.
(He’d steal carrots of all things.)
They weren’t letting him out intentionally. Took a long while to seal up all the ways he found to get out.
But yes, it’s a dangerous world for cats. It’s not safe for them, and it’s not safe for critters they go all murder hobo on.
One of our cats kept getting out of our old house - took us a couple of weeks to work out that she'd found an access hatch into the subfloor that we didn't know about in the back of a cupboard and worked out how to lift it up
Sykes was apparently getting out through a an attic hatch and an airvent in the roof, then it was down the outside of a gutter and the pillar it ran along (the slate/flatrock stuff that's meant to be uneven?)
he got stuck in my greenhouse when I replaced the paddle latch that he was batting open to walk out with a sliding bolt latch that he couldn't get open. Anyhow... poor guy was scared shitless and angry at the same time, by the time I found him. Putting out a box for him worked enough to get him down and home, at least.
There was also the window screen, the occasional door getting left open, the basement thingy. probably a dozen different ways that his family still hasn't found.
I get to watch him now, when they go on vacation (hence calling him my timeshare cat. I'm not at a place to have my own full time, but I can do a week or so on occasion.)
If your cat is attacking neighbor animals you should not let it outside anymore. Culling wildlife is problematic but "their nature". But a pet that actively attacks other people's pets is just a menace and will only end in heartache and legal issues.
It's "their nature" but they are not part of nature (unless you live in like Turkey or something where they're from).
Maybe make the cat indoor-only and save on vet bills. And save the animals in your neighborhood.
It's a fact that cats hunt for fun in addition to sustenance. Since you presumably feed your cat, we can only assume that everything he attacks outdoors is for fun.
Outdoor cats decimate bird populations. Letting your cat out is terrible for your local ecosystem. Seeing this stuff really frustrates me.
To the mouse: "We have ways of making you talk."
I had a huge chonker of a cat that once brought a whole-ass jackrabbit in the house. The rabbit was almost bigger than my cat!
So if I run your cat over in the street, you would have no problem with it? Because you sure seem okay with letting your captive predator out to do the same to your entire neighborhood.
I like to hear the howl of the coyotes and the hoot of the great horned owl nearby at night. We have no issues with cats roaming the neighborhood.
Cats being predators are meant to kill things. If this causes a problem in your area, it's a sign cats weren't meant to be in that area and you should probably stop buying them and domesticate some native wildlife instead.
He has a cat door, he comes and goes as he wants. If you run him over, he’s run over. That’s the reality of outdoor cats.
He never killed any of the animals he brought inside. If he suddenly starts killing stuff, I’ll probably reconsider.
You don't know what they have or haven't killed.
But what if his cat runs Arch Linux btw?
Meme template potential
You're absolutely right.
The clip out of the top of the ear is done by animal control upon request after being neutered.
Yeah, no. That’s not a thing where I live. It happened 5 years after he was neutered and came with other scratches and bite marks as well.
Our cat brought a live bat into the house once and then just let it go. The dogs were all over it, but thankfully didn't kill or injure it. I let it crawl along the wall to the front door, then it climbed up the screen door. I opened the screen and closed the front door. We checked back a half hour later and it was gone, so I guess it was okay, and flew away. That was a crazy experience.
This is such an image.
He's just bringing you toys to practice your hunting skills!
Let that poor mouse go. He has stories to tell his friends.
He was in the bowl for less than a minute, then let out in the garden while the cat was locked inside for a while.
He just wanted to give you a present.
Damn human didn't eat the mouse I worked to catch a-gain.
Tom and Jerry
Officer Cat is about to start interrogating that mouse.
Cat: "What are you doing with the food?"
They friends not food