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Funny you should mention Fang in a cat thread - I was going to ask his advice on a cat-related matter.
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GOD and Fang - I love cats, but haven't had one as a pet for many years. I'm able to have one where I live now, but it would have to be an indoor cat, and I'm not sure if it's fair to expect a pet to live inside all the time. I suppose I could train it to walk on a leash, but it's no fun chasing butterflies on a leash is it?
What do you think I should do?
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escapefromstress said:GOD and Fang - I love cats, but haven't had one as a pet for many years. I'm able to have one where I live now, but it would have to be an indoor cat, and I'm not sure if it's fair to expect a pet to live inside all the time. I suppose I could train it to walk on a leash, but it's no fun chasing butterflies on a leash is it?
What do you think I should do?
The last indoor/outdoor cat I had was a beautiful tortie kitten. She was outside one day and I went out and called her, not realizing she was across the street. She came when I called her, and in the process she was hit by a car and died.
I've had several cats over the years since then, and they can do fine indoors if you modify the environment a little so they're comfortable. You do need to make sure they get exercise, laser pointers are great for that.
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Aw, that's so sad - and that's one of the reasons I've held off getting another cat for so long. I've lost a few that were hit by cars, another one died of liver cancer ...
I've thought about building an indoor playground/obstacle course to keep it amused. Hmmmmmm
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Which one? I have four cats.GOD said:
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escapefromstress said:What do you think I should do?
Buy a TV instead and watch lots of cat shows. You'll be better off in the long run, trust me...:-Cool/"
escapefromstress said:GOD and Fang - I love cats, but haven't had one as a pet for many years. I'm able to have one where I live now, but it would have to be an indoor cat, and I'm not sure if it's fair to expect a pet to live inside all the time. I suppose I could train it to walk on a leash, but it's no fun chasing butterflies on a leash is it?
What do you think I should do?
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SillyGirl said:
I don't let my cat out anymore, since I moved downtown. He had nine years of being able to come and go as he pleased, and he's content to live indoors, now. He doesn't know this neighbourhood, and I'm concerned that if he went out, he might not be able to find his way home, and someone would let him in their house, and not let him back out. If I got a bigger apartment, I might get him a female, for company, but he would kill any male cat that invaded his territory.
He's friendly with people, and dogs he knows, and female cats, but he can't stand other male cats. He killed one, in a fight, about nine years ago. He didn't have a scratch on him. He used to have to run ten feet up the side of the building, to get back to my apartment, from the street. He had to jump five feet, straight up, to get to a small roof to find his way down to the street. Sometimes he ran up the side of the building with a live mouse in his mouth.
He'd catch them outside, at night, and bring them home alive, to play with, as toys. He always kept their heads in his mouth, with the ass and tail sticking out. I had a porch door with a flimsy screen, so I put some fishing weights in the corner, to keep it from flapping around in the wind, and he'd just let himself in and out a few times a night. His curfew was whenever he came home, after about 1:30 AM. If he stayed out all night, he didn't get wet food in the morning, so he only did that when the punishment was worth the crime.
He's a gold coloured short haired tabby, with darker gold tiger stripes, green eyes, and a pink nose. He always walks with his tail straight up. He has fully functional testicles, but they're internal. He has an 'empty sack', which is why he wasn't neutered, but the vet confirmed he has testicles, from an X-Ray, when he caught pneumonia in 2011. It was a chore to get him to eat the antibiotic pills. I'd jam the pill in his mouth, and then give him a squirt of water thriough his lips with an oral syringe, from when I had a wisdom tooth removed. That way, he had to swallow the pill, instead of spitting it out, as soon as I wasn't looking. That's the only time he's ever been sick.
One time in the summer, I was out on the porch, and there was a horrible smell. I looked on top of the small roof, and there were five dead songbirds, lined up next to each other, rotting in the hot sun. He brought them home, but not into the house. Those were his trophies, not 'ours'.
One time one of the mice he brought home alive escaped, and he hunted it in the house for about ten days. At one point, he used a mirror, against the wall, to judge where the mouse was hiding, among some boxes. That mouse must have really pissed him off, because when he finally caught it, he bit its head off, and ate the head, but he regurgitated it about an hour later. He always got a plate of tuna, whenever he caught a mouse.
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