Why is your outdoor cat acceptable?

[Anonymous]

Partly a vent, and partly a question to those of you who get a cat only to let it roam your neighborhood. Would you like it if I walked my dog and let it poop in your yard? Or let my kids hang out on your front porch jumping rope or leaving the remnants of their snacks on your driveway?

So tired of the neighbor's cat who thinks that my yard and home are his litter box and hunting grounds.
If this is your cat, what's your thinking? am I the only person bothered by the smell of cat pee in my yard or the dead mice left on my property.

[Anonymous]

Call animal control.

[Anonymous]

Judging by my neighborhood listserv I can assure you that you are not the only one. Outdoor cats are a pain. Do you know the culprit? Maybe call out on your listserv.

[Anonymous]

Kill it and just say it was trespassing and aggressive

[Anonymous]

Cats are animals. Keeping them indoors 24 hrs a day is cruel. Unfortunately they can't read property boundaries and do climb fences. But not everybody is like you. We love our neighbor's cat to pieces and it makes my kid's day when the neighbor cat comes to visit us (and she's always rewarded with some petting.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kill it and just say it was trespassing and aggressive

You are a bad person.

[Anonymous]

The cat probably doesn't like you, OP. I can't imagine why not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cats are animals. Keeping them indoors 24 hrs a day is cruel. Unfortunately they can't read property boundaries and do climb fences. But not everybody is like you. We love our neighbor's cat to pieces and it makes my kid's day when the neighbor cat comes to visit us (and she's always rewarded with some petting.)

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cats are animals. Keeping them indoors 24 hrs a day is cruel. Unfortunately they can't read property boundaries and do climb fences. But not everybody is like you. We love our neighbor's cat to pieces and it makes my kid's day when the neighbor cat comes to visit us (and she's always rewarded with some petting.)

+1.

Nope. Cats are domesticated animals, bred for thousands of years to be pets.

[Anonymous]

Pets are still animals and having a pet doesn't mean that they stay indoors 24 hours a day (see dogs, walking).

[Anonymous]

We have this same problem, one in particular tends to wander up and down the street and tends to poop in everyone's yards. Fortunately once it figured out we have dogs, it seems to have stopped coming into our yard. One night that cat and another cat were out behind our house either fighting or fornicating (never can be sure, but it was loud).

Not sure why it's ok for cats to wander free and be a nuisance.

[Anonymous]

The cat is doing for free what you'd otherwise be paying an exterminator for. I'd love to have a good mouser in the neighborhood! My brother had a barn full of cats and funny...not all that many nice running around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The cat probably doesn't like you, OP. I can't imagine why not.

Perfectly lovely cat, just not in my yard. It's not my cat so I shouldn't have to deal with its excrement and prey.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pets are still animals and having a pet doesn't mean that they stay indoors 24 hours a day (see dogs, walking).

Then walk your damn cat and clean up after it. I would have no qualms about taking a trespassing cat to the humane society.

[Anonymous]

Substitute squirrel or bunny and suddenly its ok. The irony! Keeping cats indoors is inhumane.