# He’s two timing me! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 19, 2019, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-s-two-timing-me/837314 "2019-07-19T18:01:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-s-two-timing-me/837314/21 "2019-07-20T00:58:31Z")
> [@DinoR](#): > > By the second sentence I was already pretty sure it was a cat. Yeah, that seemed obvious, but YMMV ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-s-two-timing-me/837314/22 "2019-07-20T01:18:58Z")
When I was a kid there was a collie dog named George in our subdivision (how did we know his name, I wonder now) who hung out with the neighborhood gang of children. He stayed at our house sometimes, and other families’ as well. He was very genial. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-s-two-timing-me/837314/23 "2019-07-20T01:27:43Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > this reminds me of a show i watched a while back on cats where in a british town various people had a cat that only showed up at certain days of the week but no one could track him for long so for the show they waited and when he showed up to one house they chipped the cat > > They watched him for 2 weeks … little freeloader had 9 different places he called home and answered to a different name at each place …hed just do a route and when he got to the end on either side hed just start over again the odd thing is it wasn’t just food … he go inside and be a normal house cat for each house … they ended up forming a club and update each other on the cats location health ect > > something else I learned in some parts of GB its illegal to have an all-indoor cat … you have to let them out when they want by law … Damn, punctuation is your friend… or at least ours. I gave up halfway through. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-s-two-timing-me/837314/24 "2019-07-20T02:59:39Z")
Get him neutered as well if he isn’t already. It will reduce his roaming and spraying instincts, and prevent unwanted litters of kittens, cute as they are. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-s-two-timing-me/837314/25 "2019-07-20T03:21:00Z")
Need photo. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-s-two-timing-me/837314/26 "2019-07-20T03:28:11Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Damn, punctuation is your friend… or at least ours. I gave up halfway through. I recall that show, though. It was on BBC Horizon, called “The Secret Life of the Cat”. The year after, there was a sort of follow-up series of episodes called “Cat Watch” with Liz Bonnin. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-s-two-timing-me/837314/27 "2019-07-20T08:40:04Z")
> [@chela](#): > > Is he faster than a fox a speeding car and too tough for birds of prey. Though getting carried off by an eagle would be a noble death Around here cats also have to worry about being picked off by coyotes. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-s-two-timing-me/837314/28 "2019-07-20T09:31:47Z")
Broomstick, remember the halcyon days of 20years ago when there were no coyotes in Chicagoland and NW Indiana? Last year one took a small dog from a backyard during a party! Next thing we’ll have to worry about is eagles. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-s-two-timing-me/837314/29 "2019-07-20T12:12:47Z")
We had a coyote do that a few years ago. (Take a small dog when the adult humans were standing nearby.) Animal control, which had been advising us to keep out pets indoors for months, shot that coyote. It could just as easily have taken a baby, and “people need to stay indoors” was not a message the authorities were as comfortable promulgating as “keep your pets confined indoors”. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2019, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-s-two-timing-me/837314/30 "2019-07-20T20:14:49Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Broomstick, remember the halcyon days of 20years ago when there were no coyotes in Chicagoland and NW Indiana? Last year one took a small dog from a backyard during a party! Next thing we’ll have to worry about is eagles. Err… that’s not my recollection. I recall hearing about coyote spottings in Chicago 30 years ago. There was a bit of an argument at the time regarding whether it was really a coyote or a stray dog, but it was a coyote. Because they look quite a bit like stray dogs and are also reclusive I assume they are both more common and have been around the area longer than people think. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-s-two-timing-me/837314/31 "2019-07-21T00:19:31Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I assume they are both more common and have been around the area longer than people think. That is generally a safe thing to assume about Coyote. I keep my cats in at night (see, Coyote.). They do go out during the day; and nearly always live into their late teens – I had one make it into his twenties. They didn’t die of going outside. It does make a great deal of difference where you live. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-s-two-timing-me/837314/32 "2019-07-21T00:36:43Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Did anyone else not realize this was about a cat until the end of the O.P.? I was thinking “DAMN I need to find someone like **chela**!” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-s-two-timing-me/837314/33 "2019-07-21T01:06:46Z")
All the time I was growing up (in the city), we had indoor-outdoor-wherever-they-please cats, and most of them died of old age. The last three lived to 18, 20, and 23, respectively (though admittedly, that last one didn’t choose to go out as often as the others). Mom finally made stick her oft-repeated promise of never getting any more indoor cats, but she does have a couple of outdoor-only cats living in the vicinity of her porch who are pushing 10 now, and still going strong. For those current cats, it would be horribly cruel to keep them indoors. While the more socialized one of the two has occasionally ventured a few feet into the house to complain about the absolutely deplorable lack of pettings in the past five minutes, she panics if the door closes behind her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/he-s-two-timing-me/837314.md?page=1)