Cats- What is wrong with people

[Birker2020]

For those of you with indoor cats I saw this , thought it was a great idea so cats can be outside but also safe ..if I ever got a cat(unlikely) I would do something like this as too many cats get run over these days and as a non cat owner I don’t like other people’s cats coming in my garden so wouldn’t want a cat I owned to be bothering other people

I agree. A lot of people make cat tunnels from the house that can lead into a bigger enclosed run.

I'd do that myself if it were me with cats.

I used to be really anti house cat until I found that cat.....

 

[I'm Dun]

I spent a summer catching a colony of feral cats, having them chipped and neutered and rehoming or releasing. I ended up taking a youngish one home and taming her. Catching those cats was an awful job. I still have the scars all up my arms. But the conditions they lived in were hideous and they were multiplying quickly. The owners of the yard were just fishing the kittens out and selling them on, so it was a good little earner for them, which cost nothing. They let me do it as tenants were complaining at the sheer numbers.

I dread to think what it cost the charity. They were just glad to have me doing the dog work. I guess they deal with this stuff day in day out

I am so glad I did it, but it does make me sad to think of all the other colonies up and down the country. Its an awful life for them and the survival rates are minuscule. For the love of god do NOT allowed your cat out until its neutered!

 

[spike123]

See I understand that some cats wouldn't cope with going outside, and that's fair enough - but I also struggle with the notion of indoor cats purely based on risk alone.

Yes I have lost a cat to a road incident, but she also had 10 years of freedom beforehand. I'm not sure why it's seen differently to not turning a horse out due to the potential for field injury, which the forum as a whole disagrees with.

Agree that all should be neutered and chipped etc, I'm not meaning that entire cats should be wandering around reproducing and causing issues!

I feel for the rescues that have to pick up the pieces of irresponsible owners. I have also lost cats to the road in years gone by and believed that cats should be allowed to roam but having my heart broken needlessly a few times I now feel differently. Having said that I've always neutered etc and I do believe cats should be allowed some access to outside either via a cattery or with cat fencing. Mine go out on a harness and have done since they were young. They enjoy that and love watching the birds but I have to say I don't miss the dead bodies of their victims that previous cats used to bring home.

 

[poiuytrewq]

This is a sad result of not neutering a tom cat. This beautiful boy had been knocked down in a village on the way to the yard one Saturday winters morning at 5.30am. No doubt out looking for females.

I found him still warm, not a mark on him but very dead. I scooped him up, gave him a cuddle and took him to the vet after I'd sorted Lari out.

They scanned him for a chip and told me has was unneutered. I was sobbing my eyes out at the vets, it so upset me because if I'd only been a few minutes or even seconds earlier he might have been alive. He may have shot out in front of me and I may have been able to avoid him. He was a beautiful boy.

Sorry if my photo offends but he was so handsome.

I found the same a few years ago. Picked him up and took to the vets. He was a un neutred tom and not chipped. They kept him incase owners came forward but no one ever did

 

[Fransurrey]

I'm involved with my local CP branch and recently they handled a household of approximately 100 cats. All resulted from an unneutered pair, two years previous. My own younger boys came from a house of 54. Same thing. Boils my piss, too.