Cat Chat (please go to cat chat 2)

[claypigeon]

No offence to anyone, but everybody seems a little touchy. I mean I get you all care, which is great, but it's getting pretty negative on this thread.
Who cares whether the cat is mixed Bengal or not. Sure it's not likely that they actually have Bengal blood. But it's not impossible. People buy cats all the time and take terrible care of them. Maybe they lost their cat because they ran away and bred with a stray or different breed? And honestly getting into a debate on indoor and outdoor cats is stupid because everyone believes in different things. That's like arguing about what is the best type of meat for your sandwich. Everyone has different opinions so no one is ever going to agree. And outdoor cats don't do as much damage to the environment as we people do. Most of the time they are useful to kill rats that get into your storage spaces or basements. So it all seems pretty pointless of an argument.

Please don't keep talking about this... Sure you can pm the person if you want to 1 X 1 cat fight but you don't have to bring negativity to the thread. And please don't say I'm being impolite it's just that I'm sick of everyone always fighting. There was just a fight on the dog thread, fish thread, and now this thread. I honestly just wants hear about people's cats because I don't have one myself.

( if you have a problem with this post PM ME, please don't post on the thread. )

I'm gonna post on the thread anyway because what you're saying is wrong.
The indoor/outdoor cat debate is nothing like deciding sandwich fillings. It's not an opinion that cats are destructive, it's a fact. Outdoor cats are directly responsible for the extinction of over 30 species of birds and kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds per year. The mammalian toll is even higher, ranging from 6.9 billion to 20.7 billion per year. Yes, humans do a lot of damage to the environment. Outdoor cats fall under the damage caused by humans since we are the ones who put these invasive predators out there. Cats are not a native predator anywhere anymore.

If the impact on the environment isn't enough to convince you to keep your cat inside, consider the danger to the cat themselves. 5.4 million cats are killed per year on US roads. There aren't any statistics for how many more die from poisoning, diseases, animal attacks and other dangers that outdoor cats have to face.

For anyone who is reading over this thread, please consider keeping your cats indoors. If you need help bringing them in and keeping them happy, let me know! I'd be happy to offer some advice and tips and share what worked for me!

Edit: I found this to be an interesting read as well.

Please, you HAVE to understand that I was trying to stop the fight and that your being way over aggressive over here.
I DONT OWN A CAT but all I know is that the rules on this thread says no fighting so I don't respect your whole thing on indoor outdoor cats. Sure the way I looked at it might have been the wrong way but it isn't your decision about other peoples cats. Can you please stop picking through people's posts and interegating them when they get a thing wrong, and you say you just want to teach people, your actually not. Trans kitty, you've been on rabbit thread, rat thread, dog thread, and have almost always caused an argument, even against me who was trying to STOP an argument. Can you please just chill? I try to say this kindly but you really need to let some stuff go... Can't we all agree that fighting all the time is not the purpose of this thread? Your all basically attacking each other,

Please don't respond to my post with more articles and things, i don't want an argument I just want a normal thread with people posting their opinions without being targeted by people who don't believe in what they are doing.

Begin an indoor or outdoor cat owner is like being a vegetarian or just a normal meat lover. Meat is one of the reasons for global warming and if everyone was vegetarians we would use less water and live longer, but no I don't try and convince people that they should be vegetarian like me, unless they ask me why it's important to be a vegetarian. I don't choke it down their throat when they try and say they love beef, I usually just say I don't like the taste of beef. It is their choice whether they want to eat beef or be vegetarian, and that is their choice, and is not to be argued. I'm sure trans kitty, that if you met me on the street and I started telling you about how being vegetarian is great and showed you articles and just babbling on and on about it and targeting you when you said something wrong , you'd be pissed and nothing else. I wouldn't have convinced you, I would've only been rude.
And please don't say this is the wrong thing to say because indoor and outdoor is unlike being a vegetarian or not because I think it is. And I just want most of the fighting to stop.

[Anaphea]

My cats love catnip. But we try to limit how much we feed them catnip (reserved for Christmas and their birthdays now) because they get addicted to it. Don't want druggie cats running around.. so now Artemis is addicted to Dreamies. A worse alternative, in my opinion, because he's raided cupboards for Dreamies before lol.

[друг]

My cat doesn't react to catnip much. He's just always a bit crazy. :'D

[Anaphea]

Haha. Arty grabs my hands and pulls the packet towards him. It has a really crazy effect on my elderly cats... makes them even more senile XD

[orpheus.]

Hi everyone, haven't posted on here in a long time (used to be Snail with a top hat).
We actually just got a new cat last week, a family friend couldn't look after him anymore and handed him over to our care. He's the sweetest little thing, adores belly rubs, food and whilst he's trying to make friends with our other cat, Pan, she's being stand-offish and won't let him near her.

Meet Oscar.


We're moving house soon to a smaller place and I'm hoping that the garden there will be suitable for cat proofing, Pan's an indoor/outdoor cat (not my choice unfortunately) and my parents want to introduce Oscar to the outdoors when we move so I'm hoping I can make a deal with them that if I cat proof the garden they can continue going outside, just not out of our property and hopefully it will stop the amount of animals Pan brings back to our doorstep - not to mention I won't have to worry about cars and idiot people hurting them.

[Anaphea]

Aw, he's adorable! He looks sort of like my Grandad's cat, Marty! Only younger and more friendly looking XD

We have this lovely tom cat named Buddy who likes to walk around from house to house. Y'know the type, haha. He's so calm though, even when my cats get all territorial. We had to take him to the vets once because he came to our house with this huge gash on his cheek that looked like it was gonna get infected (his owners don't take care of him well, we know where his owners live, but he's always up our end of the village). Bless him xx

[Dream~]

@Wombat

Oscars cute! He reminds me of one of my cats named Rachet. The main difference is that Rachet is a darker orange with more distinct stripes, and also has a white belly, chest and ring around neck. But Oscars face reminds me of his. I wish I had a pic of my kitty but I lost all my photos when I dropped my phone in to the toilet... Hopefully I can snap some more soon though.

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@ wombat

Looks so much like my cat Kasey Jay ( and our neighbor's cat) so much! Just not as chubby :3

[Nyxeva]

No offence to anyone, but everybody seems a little touchy. I mean I get you all care, which is great, but it's getting pretty negative on this thread.
Who cares whether the cat is mixed Bengal or not. Sure it's not likely that they actually have Bengal blood. But it's not impossible. People buy cats all the time and take terrible care of them. Maybe they lost their cat because they ran away and bred with a stray or different breed? And honestly getting into a debate on indoor and outdoor cats is stupid because everyone believes in different things. That's like arguing about what is the best type of meat for your sandwich. Everyone has different opinions so no one is ever going to agree. And outdoor cats don't do as much damage to the environment as we people do. Most of the time they are useful to kill rats that get into your storage spaces or basements. So it all seems pretty pointless of an argument.

Please don't keep talking about this... Sure you can pm the person if you want to 1 X 1 cat fight but you don't have to bring negativity to the thread. And please don't say I'm being impolite it's just that I'm sick of everyone always fighting. There was just a fight on the dog thread, fish thread, and now this thread. I honestly just wants hear about people's cats because I don't have one myself.

( if you have a problem with this post PM ME, please don't post on the thread. )

I'm gonna post on the thread anyway because what you're saying is wrong.
The indoor/outdoor cat debate is nothing like deciding sandwich fillings. It's not an opinion that cats are destructive, it's a fact. Outdoor cats are directly responsible for the extinction of over 30 species of birds and kill between 1.4 billion and 3.7 billion birds per year. The mammalian toll is even higher, ranging from 6.9 billion to 20.7 billion per year. Yes, humans do a lot of damage to the environment. Outdoor cats fall under the damage caused by humans since we are the ones who put these invasive predators out there. Cats are not a native predator anywhere anymore.

If the impact on the environment isn't enough to convince you to keep your cat inside, consider the danger to the cat themselves. 5.4 million cats are killed per year on US roads. There aren't any statistics for how many more die from poisoning, diseases, animal attacks and other dangers that outdoor cats have to face.

For anyone who is reading over this thread, please consider keeping your cats indoors. If you need help bringing them in and keeping them happy, let me know! I'd be happy to offer some advice and tips and share what worked for me!

Edit: I found this to be an interesting read as well.

Please, you HAVE to understand that I was trying to stop the fight and that your being way over aggressive over here.
I DONT OWN A CAT but all I know is that the rules on this thread says no fighting so I don't respect your whole thing on indoor outdoor cats. Sure the way I looked at it might have been the wrong way but it isn't your decision about other peoples cats. Can you please stop picking through people's posts and interegating them when they get a thing wrong, and you say you just want to teach people, your actually not. Trans kitty, you've been on rabbit thread, rat thread, dog thread, and have almost always caused an argument, even against me who was trying to STOP an argument. Can you please just chill? I try to say this kindly but you really need to let some stuff go... Can't we all agree that fighting all the time is not the purpose of this thread? Your all basically attacking each other,

Please don't respond to my post with more articles and things, i don't want an argument I just want a normal thread with people posting their opinions without being targeted by people who don't believe in what they are doing.

Begin an indoor or outdoor cat owner is like being a vegetarian or just a normal meat lover. Meat is one of the reasons for global warming and if everyone was vegetarians we would use less water and live longer, but no I don't try and convince people that they should be vegetarian like me, unless they ask me why it's important to be a vegetarian. I don't choke it down their throat when they try and say they love beef, I usually just say I don't like the taste of beef. It is their choice whether they want to eat beef or be vegetarian, and that is their choice, and is not to be argued. I'm sure trans kitty, that if you met me on the street and I started telling you about how being vegetarian is great and showed you articles and just babbling on and on about it and targeting you when you said something wrong , you'd be pissed and nothing else. I wouldn't have convinced you, I would've only been rude.
And please don't say this is the wrong thing to say because indoor and outdoor is unlike being a vegetarian or not because I think it is. And I just want most of the fighting to stop.

The debate ended pages ago and you're the one who brought it back up by posting and attacking me. Did you really expect me not to defend myself? You personally may not have learned anything by my posts, but I've had others come to me personally to thank me for my posts because they did learn something. So no, I wont stop when I see misinformation. I'll continue to correct it and show sources for the facts I post because there are people who read them and find them interesting. If you don't like me, or don't like seeing my posts, just foe me. Problem solved.

Me posting about the current topic of conversation on a thread is nothing like you randomly approaching me in the street and talking to me about vegetarianism. We were talking about outdoor cats on a cat thread and I posted why I and science disagrees with them. That's how conversations work. This thread would be dead without the debates that happen here, I've seen it happen time and time again. The thing a lot of people on CS don't seem to realize is that not every disagreement is an argument.

Anyway, back to what we're currently talking about:
Two of the cats here love catnip! They're roll in it and eat it and actually tolerate each other when they've been given some. The third cat, Loki, it doesn't seem to have as much of an impact on. She'll roll in it for a few seconds, but then she's done and she wants to do something else haha.

Did you guys know that catnip doesn't have an effect on cats under three months old?

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Yeah and it's weird too