Haha that’s how my sister got one of her cats. She lived next door then kind of decided she lived with my sister instead. So my sister went over and told the people their cat kept coming in her house and they were like “whatever keep her we were going to get rid of her anyways.” And now my sister has had her for like 10 years.
Damn, that cat knew.
You make it sound like only the cat benefits from the arrangement, but the cat understands his or her responsibilities of granting pats, scratches, and possibly even belly rubs for good caretakers.
Mmm, had a cat leave half a rat in my shoe one night. “You’re welcome.”
How would you know that he killed an intruder if he doesn’t show proof!?
Well, it’s not like you were going to catch it yourself. The cat just knew if he didn’t give you half his rat you’d die of starvation.
It was possibly also a comment on the low quality of catfood I was providing. “Saute this lightly and serve with the jus. Chop chop!”
Then why does my cat try to kill me by running under my feet every time I walk down the stairs? Are my treats and scritches not enough?!?!
It’s never enough. Never.
if you fall they get to eat you
Because if you step on them, you’ll feel bad and then fuss over them and give them more treats. And the cat won’t be hurt because they are liquid so it’s a no-risk, all reward activity.
I don’t know, a lot of people are pretty shit to their cats and the cats don’t seem to have much say over the situation.
If you’re like a happy cat with a nice place to live and freedom to explore or hang out at home according to your whims, that’s probably a pretty okay life for the most part. But if you’re an ‘indoor’ cat spending your entire life locked in a small space that may be cramped, dirty, or scary, that’s a pretty different thing.
The contradiction of pet ownership is kinda fucked. Like, how are you going to try to keep a cat who desperately wants to escape trapped inside and pretend it’s your buddy rather than your prisoner?
Same with people who have dogs that they just leave penned up or tied to a post all the time. How can anyone think that’s any kind of life?
Humans are monsters.
Hexbear outdoor cat struggle session gonna spread to other comms
I ain’t from hexchan. Just somebody who thinks animals should be treated decently and not just collected.
“hexchan” lol
Imma make it stick.
4chan super famous for… providing a safe community for trans people.
Hexchan ain’t really doing any better. Sure are patting themselves on the back about what great allies they are though! I know that’s what I like in an ally, not actual help with the whole rights thing, but empty posturing and condescension!
Keep it up!
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Not really about allyship. A bunch of admins, mods, and users are trans and talk about why it’s the only site they actually enjoy being on.
Also your tone is incredibly condescending, lmao.
not actual help with the whole rights thing, but empty posturing and condescension!
So you do understand why we see the DNC as controlled opposition, and unworthy of support. Neato.
i’ll help
Yeah let’s just let them outside and kill all birds and get sick and shit. Brilliant.
I mean, you don’t actually have to take other species prisoner at all.
They’re a domesticated animal. Killing all the house cats in the world isn’t some collective good you’re doing to save cats.
So what, you just keep them locked up and anxious forever? Is that punishment for the birds?
Like, what’s your angle?
fucking up ecosystems to avoid giving your pets adequate enrichment at home isn’t it.
I have three cats. Only one ever showed interest in outside, so we got him a harness and leash. He loves it, the best treat in the world. Now we live somewhere with a fenced in back yard, so we let him out with no leash on supervised play times, and one of his sisters has shown an interest so she comes with us into the yard. When we can’t be with them as supervision, they stay inside. Not so different from a small child.
We also play with them all daily and are currently building an elaborate climbing wall to keep them entertained better during the sweltering heat of summer. At no occasion do they need the opportunity to murder in order to be happy.
That sounds like a happy cat who gets to have a healthy relationship with being inside or outside.
Not on his whims though, he can’t just go outside alone. And before we had a yard it was on leash only, which is something most people could do if their cat did show antsy behavior.
Dude the only time my cat gets anxious is when I leave the house for more than 13 seconds. I’m not saying there aren’t cats who are miserable indoors but are you gonna seriously act like all cats want exactly the same thing? They have distinct personalities and some are quite content to be in a quiet, safe space with toys and food and loves and a view of all the pretty birds they they can pretend to kill with their toy. Some cats barely even care about killing or exploring. It’s almost like they’re individuals.
I can’t think of a single person who would actually just let a cat move in. I think the internet has fooled some of you.
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I have lived in multiple homes where this happened. One was even a fraternity ( total consensus ).
That’s how I use to have cats as a child. They’d move it and my dad would say, I guess they live here now.
I was selected as a older cats last few days caretaker. It walked up to me in my driveway malnourished. I took it to the vet, fed it, gave it a warm place to sleep and it died 2 weeks later.
You live in a grim neighbourhood.
When I was a kid one of my cats adopted a family down the road. He’d come home most nights, but would stay sometimes and would regularly eat at both houses.
well the affection/running costs ratio is just stunning! highest ROI ever witnessed…everyone is happy and its a win-win
You really believe cats would stoop so low? Obviously cats made human babies evolve to sound like cats, because humans were engineered to serve cats, so by sounding like cats the little humans would be fed more to be stronger and have more humans to feed cats.
I think you’re onto something here
I love both cats and dogs, but I think it is so cool that cats just decided they wanted to be with us. Dogs were made to, they didn’t exactly have a choice.
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Fair trade really
Cats didn’t domesticate themselves, that’s just not how domestication works.
Not even to mention the t. gondii biological weapons front.
Back when I was living alone in Arizona, this is pretty close to how I got both my cats.
My cats origin:
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A momma cat showed up pregnant and had her kittens under the trailer we were living in. The rest of her kittens disappeared, and she was a feral, but we took the remaining kitten in, our bestest baby boy.
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Adopted from shelter so #1 would have a friend. It didn’t work, he only likes humans lmao. Fortunately for her, a few months later…
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We heard what we thought was a injured bird outside our apartment in the middle of the night. Turned out to be an oil covered baby kitten. She was adopted by #2 :)
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Cats can psychologically manipulate me so I take care of them, as a treat.
Cats can psychology manipulate me I to being happy for doing shit for them. The key word there is happy. Not much else does that for me anymore. I need those dopamine hits
