Cats should go outside
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But make them wear shoes to cover them little claws
Apparently cars alone account for a huge proportion of outdoor cat deaths. Plus parasites, disease, fights with dogs, fights with other cats, fights with racoons, fights with skunks, very very one-sided fights with coyotes, eagles, accidents other unspecified, and god knows what else. Life is harsh when you weigh five pounds.
very very one-sided fights with coyotes
This is really it in all the rural and even some urban areas I’ve lived in lol. Cats that roam beyond their neighborhood (or if they live out in an sparsely populated area to begin with) will eventually find their way into the areas where coyotes tend to hang out.
Coyotes when they see an outdoor suburban cat:
:pete-eat:
i forget which of the five websites that just post screenshots of the other four websites, but there was a story about some guy who had a lot of cats die and
i dunno man sounds like you’re just feeding the coyotes
Also fights with wild (big) cats. A family member who lived out in the sticks had an indoor/outdoor cat that got into it with a fucking bobcat one night. She scared it off, but not before it got some nasty scratches in. She was an indoor-only cat after that, and it took a few years for the damage from the scars to clear up. She ended up living to the ripe old age of 17 or 18 – not bad, considering.
