04-12-2009, 11:40 AM
> Ever tried to confine an older outdoor cat?
Yes.
It always bugs me when people insist that it can't be done. All of our cats have been adopted off the street. All have adapted to being "indoor" cats pretty easily. We've bred cats for domesticity. It's in their genes.
Some people have a stupid fantasy that domesticated cats are actually better off living outdoors, even when they know that the cats will suffer from mites, fleas, ticks, fights with other cats, neighbors bent on trapping and poisoning them, cars, predators and other threats and will -- of course -- die an early death.
Those people need a hard kick in the head.
Yes.
It always bugs me when people insist that it can't be done. All of our cats have been adopted off the street. All have adapted to being "indoor" cats pretty easily. We've bred cats for domesticity. It's in their genes.
Some people have a stupid fantasy that domesticated cats are actually better off living outdoors, even when they know that the cats will suffer from mites, fleas, ticks, fights with other cats, neighbors bent on trapping and poisoning them, cars, predators and other threats and will -- of course -- die an early death.
Those people need a hard kick in the head.