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Doesn't this say more about the owner than the kitty? They won't let the cat outside for fear of it being killed by a car or dog... but cats are outdoor animals until you impose your paranoia on their lives. Let the cat out!

― andy --, Monday, 3 October 2005 16:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

Not my cat. She is terrified of leaving. If you bring her too close to an open door, she freaks out and scratches the hell out of you in order to run away and hide under the bed.

― You're Wrong, Monday, 3 October 2005 16:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yes, let the cat outside in New York City. Go ahead. I'll wait for your report.

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

Dude, it's not like I live in the middle of nowhere. Cats are a hazard to each other and a guaranteed nighttime noisemaker in the city, something the neighbors and the neighbors' cats do not like. Cats are fine in the house. They sit in the window and watch the world go by and make sure all your furniture has a warm layer of fur.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

This is fucking bonkers, where do you live, Nebraska?

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yes, yes andy's thread sucks.

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

No, the girl I've been seeing (in San Francisco) wouldn't let the cat out until I started forcing the issue. Now we let it out in the backyard all the time and it freaks out, starts eating grass and chasing bugs. She makes sure it wears the collar... it usually disappears for an hour or so and then reappears. It seems MUCH happier and less violent.

― andy --, Monday, 3 October 2005 16:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, I keep my cats indoors. They're weak, and would get chewed out by stronger cats in no time - also, I live on the third floor and don't wanna hafta keep windows open an' shit to wait for them to get back.

Sure, cats are "outdoor animals", but let's be serious here: if my cats could talk, I think that the whole "staying indoors" thing wouldn't really be their biggest complaint; I think that the fact that I had them castrated would be much higher on their list of grievances.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

Wait...who let the cats out?

― PappaWheelie B.C., Monday, 3 October 2005 16:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

my cat has no claws and would surely get mauled by some mean street cats

p.s. i didnt declaw her, her previous owner did!

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

Once you've had them declawed, they're kind of at risk outside their own environments. One unfriendly cat with claws intact = $500 vet bill for a scratched-up little kittyface.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

xpost

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

It (aforementioned cat) IS terrified of the cars in the front and won't go near the front door, but is completely entralled with the small backyard jungle. Do the right thing, let the cat out.

― andy --, Monday, 3 October 2005 16:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

We never had an indoor cat when I was growing up. We lived in rural MINNESOTA.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

We let our cats outdoors when I was kid and we lived out in the middle of nowhere. It was fine, I guess, if you don't mind coming home to squirrel guts on the step and letting the cat in during the middle of the night. When we moved to the city they became indoor cats, but one still ran away and didn't come back.

It seems like something bad inevitably happens to outdoor cats, whether it's fights or diseases or just going on wild kitty adventures for a few days that stress their owners the fuck out.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

Why the hell would anyone force the "issue" of letting the cat out in San Francisco? In what way is this an issue anyway? Do you think the cat really cared that much?

And not only that but quite a lot of cats, because, you know, domesticity is an attempt to BREED OUT THESE INSTINCTS IN CATS, are actually terrified of outdoors. Mine, for example, won't even go into the hallway in our building. We have to drag him out on the balcony.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

Andy, that cat WILL find it's way out of the backyard one of these days.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

never had an indoor cat growing up(suburban michigan), but my pop had one at university(apartments in east lansing, MI).

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:46 (7 years ago) Permalink

I always wondered what those wild kitty adventures were all about. Is it like a walkabout? Do they take peyote in the desert?

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

Your girlfriend will murder you once this cat gets hit by a car/scratched up by another cat/kidnapped/etc etc etc things that have happened to all my friends in major cities who let their cats out occasionally. I have NEVER heard this story end well in a major urbanized area. Ever!

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

The are the same folks that give their kids antibiotics for the sniffles and have hand-sanitizer in the car.

― andy --, Monday, 3 October 2005 16:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

I would have to use the "front door" to get out the back. Trust me, my cat hates the outdoors. Also, my exes' cats never liked the outdoors even though they always WANTED to get out there out of curiosity. Once they got out, they ran up a tree completely freaked out and terrified for days. They never left the yard.

― You're wrong, Monday, 3 October 2005 16:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

xpost No they're not. They're people who own cats but not a barn. I don't even have a backyard.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

whatever you do, don't pierce their ears when they are kittens.

― Mendoza Lineman (Carey), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

Agreed. Andy, please give me enough money to have a place with a back yard you care so much about my cat.

― Jimmy Mod wants you to tighten the strings on your corset (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

my cat has no claws and would surely get mauled by some mean street cats

p.s. i didnt declaw her, her previous owner did!

Same deal with my cat -- the previous owner declawed him, I think he'd be totally defenseless if he were left to his own devices outside.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

whatever you do, don't pierce their ears when they are kittens.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

It's a quality of life issue, not quantity.

― andy --, Monday, 3 October 2005 16:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

Ha, Ally is incredible right, and Andy is incredibly screwed. You let the cat out, and something happens to it, eventually. Maybe nothing serious or terrible, but something that'll cause at least a couple hours of freaking out and feeling sorry for Poor Kitty and wondering where the nearest 24-hour animal clinic is. And from those hours to the moment of signing the check for the vet bill, there's every chance your girlfriend will be in super-mega You're an Idiot mode.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

Dude, my cat has a way higher quality of life than I do.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

Haha, no shit.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

Try to prep her early. Talk a lot about how inevitable it is that the cat will get mauled by a sewer-badger.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

Exactly how great is the quality of your life going to be when your girlfriend is stabbing you in the nuts shrieking "WHERE THE FUCK IS MY PRECIOUS KITTY, YOU GIGANTIC DUMBFUCK???????"

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 October 2005 16:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

Sure, one day of abject terror without his normal hiding places before having his neck snapped by the roving pit bull would be so much better than ten years of comfort, ease, treats and sunbeams.

Is this some kind of fucking joke?

(several xposts)

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

Hahaha! I don't think that pitbulls roam the cities of America looking for defenseless housecats to eat but I could be wrong.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

My cat, too, became much less troublesome when I started letting him out. He used to be terrible for scratching walls and furniture; after I let him outside, that stopped completely. Plus, no more litter tray - well, it's still there, but as soon as he could get outside he stopped using the tray unless he was absolutely bursting.

However, he still has his claws. Declawing is a horribly cruel thing to do, far worse than castration.

And, I know, there *are* some cats who will refuse to go outside. I've known cats who live in two-bedroom flats who are quite happy to stay inside, and terrified of stepping out of the door. The common thread with all the cats I've known like this is that they were all from the cats' shelter, and were all mistreated by previous owners; I've also known mistreated cats that weren't like this, though.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

My cat is an indoor cat too, same problem as noted above, she flips out if taken over the threshold of the open door or if strangers walk by or visit. Preface this by saying she was a junk yard rescue - only about 4 weeks old and the rest of the litter died cuz the mom had too, and they were too young to hunt or eat solid food. We tried a number of times to get her used to being outdoors - took her just outside the front door in a closed patio, she dug her claws in a clung like a crazed octopus, shaking and trying to bury herself in the crook of my arm. Then we tried again to take her to a small park where no one was around she was on a leash but dove under the blanket on the grass and shook and meowed like someone was trying to kill her. This is so sad cuz they should have some outdoor fun and experience (even just to catch a bug and play with it as "live game". All my life I have had various cats that were "more stable" and perfectly ok with outside. This one is just too traumatized to be sujected to the outside. She is 5 now, I leave the front door open sometimes and she will sit near the door, but won't pass the threshold and if anyone comes near she runs like she's being chased by a banshee! She does sit in the window and look, but it seems to be quite enough for her.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

God god, I'm not signing the cat up for dogfighting. These are (usually) supervised visits to a big backyard. The cat usually goes in the neighbor's yard for awhile, wanders through the hedges, and then we go fetch it. This isn't "Escape from New York" or something.

― andy --, Monday, 3 October 2005 17:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

The pit bull part was a bit of hyperbole, but there are quite a few loose dogs in my neighborhood that like to make sport of cats.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

When a C.H.U.D. gets the cat don't come crying to me.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

I grew up in a national park with a cat that lived an idyllic young life. Even later in suburbia she had access to enough wandering room to enjoy herself thoroughly. Now that I live in a city, my present cats are indoor 'cause (a) it's much, much safer in an urban environment, in terms of cars, dogs, but also exposure to other animals and other cats and their diseases and (b), though I do let them into our little concrete 'back yard' when i'm down there, they wouldn't have any access to anything fun anyway. Pavement, street, victorians with no front yards, they'd end up rooting through people's garbage or stuck in a tree.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

God god, I'm not signing the cat up for dogfighting.

You say that now...

― The Ghost of The Backyard Is A Gateway To The Darkside (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

The hysterical tone of many of these posts means I've obviously struck a chord. You're all enemies of freedom.

― andy --, Monday, 3 October 2005 17:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

I used to let my cats out and then one got hit by a car. on my birthday. I found it in the street covered in blood. That was great fun! My cats don't go outside anymore.

really though I would let them out if I weren't worried about it. I live somewhere with less traffic now. Well, I'd let one of them out; the othe one is terrified of everything and prefers to live under our bed.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

You big liar, Andy: if you're supervising the kitty, it's hardly an "outdoor" cat! That's just, like, making your apartment bigger for a second. I read "let the cat out" and I'm thinking of proper cat-comes-and-goes-as-it-pleases type shit.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

until I started forcing the issue
I agree w/Ally, et al. It sounds as if you have bigger problems than cat freedom, judging from the above

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

Andy totally wants to have sex with the cat.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

I just don't understand where I (or Kenan or Jimmy or...) am supposed to let my cat out. I mean I haven't got a backyard at all. Not only that, but he hates even wandering into a hallway. When Tom first moved him to this apartment he hid in the closet for days, terrified of the house! Trust me, his quality of life would dive if we forced the issue of him being outside regularly. He hates HALLWAYS. He's completely agoraphobic. And yes, he was a rescued kitty, found running around on the LIE. I guess after that experience and then being shuttled into a tiny apartment with constant food and attention when he wanted and water and places to climb on, he had no interest in the great outdoors anymore. And, really, he does have a higher QOL than I do.

I mean, seriously, even if you have a backyard in the urban environment you shouldn't be letting the cat out, because one day he will jump fence to the neighbor's yard and then keep going. This is not such a big issue in a suburban environment, but in urban...next thing you know, you're hosting cat drug orgies.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Monday, 3 October 2005 17:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

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I guess my feelings on the whole outdoor/indoor controversy are that in an ideal world, all cats would have a safe, stimulating outdoor area that they could explore when they felt like it. My grandparents have always let their cats go outside. They have a big yard and an acre of trees behind the house, but they also live on a very busy street. They've lost a few cats to the street, but they've had their current cat for about 15 years and she's never been hit (although her brother was killed by a car there). I can see how much she enjoys going outside, and given her record of avoiding the street, I'm sure it's for the best to let her out. However, I also think that cats are capable of leading perfectly content and happy lives indoors - provided that their owners play with them and give them toys, attention and stimulation. Where I live, letting a cat outside is just not an option. So I disagree with the idea that it's better not to have a cat at all if you can't let them outside. I think it's perfectly acceptable to sacrifice some variety and stimulation for the benefit of the cat's safety, health and longevity.

― o. nate, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 19:48 (3 years ago) Permalink

yeah im not letting my cat roam around bed-stuy, sorry

― la monte jung (cutty), Tuesday, 24 November 2009 19:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

when i thought my cat ran away i put up posters.
even tho he turned up in the neighbors yard the next day i still get phone calls from ppl thinking they've seen him. lotsa pretty tuxedo cats roamin williamsburg apparently.

― ian, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 19:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

I guess no one has linked to this NY Times article, which sheds a different light on the issue, highlighting the damage that outdoor cats do to the local bird population:

"Give Birds a Break. Lock Up the Cat."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/science/29angi.html

― o. nate, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 20:41 (3 years ago) Permalink

I like when people put bells on outdoor cats, mainly because it annoys them.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 13:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

There are some great outdoor cats near where I live. One chap has worked out how to use pedestrian crossings to safely traverse junctions.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 13:31 (3 years ago) Permalink

My sister's friend's cat went missing two years ago and she put up a poster; someone phoned up and said "Hi, I've seen your cat - it was under the wheels of a fucking truck hahahahaha"

the cat came home, two years later

― MPx4A, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 13:44 (3 years ago) Permalink

^^^poster delivers

― GET THAT BABY JESUS RIGHT UP YE (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 13:46 (3 years ago) Permalink

My husband has named all the hobo/outdoor cats he sees on the way to work: Witch Hazel, Tux Shortbus, Corned Beef Hash, Taft, Doc Morsel, Oscar Snagtooth, and Edwyn Collins.

― kate78, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 16:10 (3 years ago) Permalink

i'm guessing Taft is a rather large kitty?

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 17:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

Your husband is good at granting names!

― mascara and ties (Abbott), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 17:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

^^^

― ian, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 17:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

would hang with Corned Beef Hash and Tux Shortbus.

― ian, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 17:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

We give names to our outdoor pals too: Oil Can Harry, Congo Jack, Dr. Seuss, One Ear, etc.

― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 18:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

So I disagree with the idea that it's better not to have a cat at all if you can't let them outside. I think it's perfectly acceptable to sacrifice some variety and stimulation for the benefit of the cat's safety, health and longevity.

my 2 cats, restricted to the indoors, wanting badly to roam around outdoors, but well-fed and loved, annual checkups with the vet etc vs 2 cats not adopted from the shelter, kept in a cage 23 hours per day, fates uncertain. hmm.

― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 18:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

Wd totally rock with a cat called Tux Shortbus <3

― hulk would smash (Trayce), Wednesday, 25 November 2009 20:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

indoor kitty's got such a supple wrist

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 20:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

Had two cats that I felt this way. After seeing them get outside and romp through the yard and roll around and chase squirrels and stuff I couldn't stand to keep them inside, and they both died of car injuries within less than a year of their lives.

Just got a third one, probably going to make him be an indoor cat because I don't want a repeat. Losing a cat really sucks.

― Adam Bruneau, Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

I give my cat supervised backyard plays when its a nice day and I've free time to keep an eye on her (so she doesnt try and get under the house where she may get stuck). She loves rolling in the dirt and lying in the garden in the sun. But this is why I *dont* like doing this too often - outside + possums around = cat gets fleas. Ugh.

― hulk would smash (Trayce), Thursday, 26 November 2009 00:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

Would totally hang out with Edwyn Collins cat.

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 26 November 2009 02:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

Adopted an FIV-positive cat a few months ago for this reason - they're not supposed to be either outside or with other cats, which is perfect since our apartment is on the 2nd floor, no balcony/patio, and no other cats. He builds up a lot of energy and gets crazy if we don't play with him everyday, though, but I don't mind.

― throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Thursday, 26 November 2009 02:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

How infectious is FIV? do they have to shag each other to get it, or do they get it from just looking at each other?

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 26 November 2009 11:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

It's primarily transmitted by cat fights, IIRC.

― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, it's pretty infectious.

― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:19 (3 years ago) Permalink

It's less infectious that FELV, but you can't vaccinate against it. FELV can be transmitted by grooming, sharing litter trays, water dishes, food bowls, etc. FIV is transmitted primarily by shagging or fighting (although if you have cats with open oral wounds such as tooth problems, it can be transmitted through grooming, sharing bowls, etc.)

― trishyb, Thursday, 26 November 2009 14:07 (3 years ago) Permalink

^ she's got it. They can live 5-10 years with it, and seeing as he's 5 yrs old and probably got infected pretty recently (he's a huge, loving, and social cat, I feel terrible he was ever on the street and needed facial reconstruction after being kind of mauled by another stray), I figure he can live a pretty normal life with us. We named him Magic Johnson in honor of a hopefully long and healthy life. Is that messed up or just optimistic?

― throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Friday, 27 November 2009 04:31 (3 years ago) Permalink

― throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Friday, 27 November 2009 04:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

Our cat (and my girlfriend) are awesome enough to pull one of these harnesses off, but there's a really meek guy in my apartment complex who uses one with his cat who DEFINITELY doesn't enjoy it. I've tried saying hi after saying "That thing is COOL!" to him in a friendly way, but he just kind of ducked and passed me without saying anything. He seemed embarassed to be seen with it, but he still goes out most afternoons and walks his cat. I think someone's making him do it. Either way, it's discouraging me from even trying it.

― throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Friday, 27 November 2009 04:42 (3 years ago) Permalink

My sister bought her FIV cat one of those harnesses but whenever she put it on, the cat would sit down and not move. She tried dragging it around the garden (literally) a couple of times before giving up.

― Madchen, Friday, 27 November 2009 07:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

We had a kitten once that we decided to harness train. She did a pretty good job until she died 6 months later. Guess she didn't like it after all.

― kate78, Friday, 27 November 2009 07:41 (3 years ago) Permalink

Fuck. Just woke up and was snuggling on the couch with my cat, drinking tea and being cozy in general when I heard a cat howling outside the window who obviously wanted in. Weather.com says that it feels like 34℉ right now, so that poor cat must be suffering. I wanted to bring it in, but can't because who knows about its health and how it will interact with our other animals? Hope it finds a place to get warm. Fuck.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 28 November 2009 11:46 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

My little guy ran away yesterday. Apparently pushed the screen out of a window that we had opened to get a cross-breeze going. I didn't notice he was missing for 4 hours and when I did, I couldn't go canvas the neighborhood for him because it was dark out and I was home by myself watching the kids. Then about half an hour after I noticed he was missing, the biggest thunderstorm I've heard in years rolled through, so even if he was somewhere in the neighborhood, there's a good chance that he panicked an bolted somewhere even further away. Stupid, stupid cat.

He was just starting to bond with my baby girl too; she pets him and they nap together sometimes. I hope like hell that he's alright.

― kkvgz, Monday, 4 April 2011 12:03 (2 years ago) Permalink

:'(

hope he turns up — does he have a tag/collar/chip? anything?

― bernard snowy, Monday, 4 April 2011 12:18 (2 years ago) Permalink

I feel like andy has been right about everything he has ever posted.

― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 4 April 2011 12:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

fuck now I just got overwhelmed by a rush of memories from the time my ex's cat (outdoor) went missing for several days

and how worried sick we were about her
thinking maybe she got in a fight, or was hit by a car
sitting up all night and calling her name out into the darkness

and the moment when she finally found her way back home and mewed outside the window
and kristen ran outside and picked her up and wept tears of joy while petting and kissing her all over
and I miss them both :(

― bernard snowy, Monday, 4 April 2011 12:26 (2 years ago) Permalink

Two of my friends went away over Christmas and left the cat with a friend to mind. But after only a couple of days, the cat did a runner. When my friends came back from holidays, they put up posters, but to no avail. They thought they would never see the cat again. Then one day, six weeks, after the disappearence, they heard a mewing at the window and it was the cat. He had travelled about two miles and crossed a river to get back to them, and was right as rain apart from having lost weight and being a bit afraid of the outside.

I hope your cat comes back kkvgz.

― The New Dirty Vicar, Monday, 4 April 2011 12:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

kkvgz, I bet when the storm started, the cat burrowed down somewhere warm and dry ASAP rather than running away. Their instincts are to run under something and stay there.

― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Monday, 4 April 2011 12:40 (2 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, my experiences with cats running away have all had happy endings so far. But he is declawed (the condition we got him from the shelter in) and there are a lot of neighborhood cats of indeterminate ownership who aren't. I'm optimistic, but still upset.

― kkvgz, Monday, 4 April 2011 12:44 (2 years ago) Permalink

Thanks for the kind wishes, all.

― kkvgz, Monday, 4 April 2011 12:45 (2 years ago) Permalink

Really hope he returns very soon kkvgz, fingers crossed.

― MaresNest, Monday, 4 April 2011 13:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

i bet your cat will show up, every time mine ran off they wound up being under the building, or in a shed adjacent.

― akm, Monday, 4 April 2011 14:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

andy was really not right about this issue, like at all.

hope your cat comes back quickly. :(

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

wait, why did i think this was a new thread? sorry, long day.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

my fuckking cats are the worst jesus

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

they both decided to sleep on my head from about 3am to whenever I had to finally wake up for some reason

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

I live in the middle of a city with tonnnns of stray cats around there is no way in hell I'm letting these idiotic cats go outside

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

Let a cat go outside and they just get up to honky-tonkin' and we all know no good comes of that.

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

Our three indoor cats are fascinated by/want to destroy the neighborhood outdoor cats who chill on the deck while our dudes try to claw their way through the sliding glass doors. This is now a well-established part of everyone's daily routine.

― Brad C., Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

I had a lot of "outdoor only" cats as a kid and they all met horrible outdoor ends.

― Dale, dale, dale (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

Aw this thread makes me miss mah kitty, RIP Yampy you stinkbag.

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

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