Oh, I’ll admit it. Tara fetches my drinks, makes dinner, cleans the kitchen, cleans the litter box, keeps an eye on Willow and massages my feet. In return, I give her a tiny box of sand and feed her cheap food that she can barely stomach. She only sleeps 1-2 hours a day because I keep her so busy. If you chain her to the vacuum, she can drag it behind her for hours. Best investment I ever made.
Oh wait, that’s not Tara. That’s my husband. Just so I’m clear though, we’re all talking about cats right? You don’t mean “Monkey Butlers” but you keep typing “indoor cats” right? Because that’s an easy mistake to make. I’m sure we’d all understand.
Indoor cats have dramatically longer lifespans on the whole than do outdoor cats. Outdoor cats are subject to rabies or feline specific diseases spread from contact or bites and scratches of other cats like feline leukemia or feline AIDS, as well as parasites, poisons, attacks from other animals, abuse from humans, getting squished by motor vehicles, getting caught in traps, and a host of other problems that indoor cats don’t have to worry about. I have no problem with someone deciding to keep their cat an indoor cat.
You know what cheeses me off? Controlling parents who refuse to let their children play in the street. Who do these people think they are? What right do they have to keep naturally curious children inside, playing with them and feeding them like they’re some wacky seamonkey display!?
pfft
For the record, my cats are indoor cats. I carry the larger kitty outside occasionally, because he likes to sniff leaves and watch birds. Gia, the smaller kitty could honestly give less of an arse about the outdoors. All she knows is that somewhere past that threshold, there are swarms of evil D-O-G’s waiting to descend upon her at any moment (I’m in an apartment, and our nearest neighbors have two large dogs who bark at the window when we walk by or open our door).
I wouldn’t risk either kitties life to a car, disease or evil neighbor kid for all of the money, unscratched furniture and cleanliness in the world.
I’ve seen a few that I wouldn’t put it past. I’ve definitely seen some who’d figured out that the doorknob is what makes the door open, if only they could figure out how to work it. (Swatting at it doesn’t do the trick.)
My female cat knows that the round shiny thing is what makes the door open. When someone is in a bedroom or the bathroom and she wants IN, she stretches up and puts a paw on either side of the doorknob. Obviously, she can’t turn it, but damn if she doesn’t try. And she’s tenacious. She’ll sit there rattling the doorknob for-freaking-ever.
If we had those lever-type of things instead of round knobs, there’s be no keeping her out of any room.
Not to mention a persistent habit of stirring shit. Astro, your act is getting very old. The indoor/outdoor cat thing is a hot-button and you know it. The issue has been chewed over umpteen times already. Your stirring it up again, and in IMHO, decidedly is not appreciated. Posting deliberately inflammatory things just to get people riled up is also called trolling. And you know what happens around here to people who do that. Consider yourself warned.