Anonymous
Post 12/30/2015 06:17     Subject: Why is your outdoor cat acceptable?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:NP here. Clicked on this thread because there is a cat who thinks our doormat is its litter box. WHY?

Anyways I just got a new doormat and sprinkled it with white pepper and some cayenne pepper (but not too much cayenne because we'll track it onto our carpet).

I truly don't get it. I think it's neglected and left outside, and my kids have treated it with kindness--maybe it thinks it is part of our family now and so must do the family business as close as possible to where an indoor litter box would be?


Are you sure itnis a cat and not some other animal? Cats go where they can bury the evidence.


+1. Unless you are finding cat shit in your sandbox, I'm surprised you're seeing cat shit at all.
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2015 01:24     Subject: Why is your outdoor cat acceptable?
Anonymous wrote:NP here. Clicked on this thread because there is a cat who thinks our doormat is its litter box. WHY?

Anyways I just got a new doormat and sprinkled it with white pepper and some cayenne pepper (but not too much cayenne because we'll track it onto our carpet).

I truly don't get it. I think it's neglected and left outside, and my kids have treated it with kindness--maybe it thinks it is part of our family now and so must do the family business as close as possible to where an indoor litter box would be?


Are you sure itnis a cat and not some other animal? Cats go where they can bury the evidence.
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2015 01:22     Subject: Why is your outdoor cat acceptable?
Keeping cats indoors is inhumane??! LOL!!!!

Then don't get a cat!

OP...I sympathize. We used to always have cats that jumped our yard and shit all around, including my vegetable garden.

Anonymous
Post 12/30/2015 01:19     Subject: Why is your outdoor cat acceptable?
NP here. Clicked on this thread because there is a cat who thinks our doormat is its litter box. WHY?

Anyways I just got a new doormat and sprinkled it with white pepper and some cayenne pepper (but not too much cayenne because we'll track it onto our carpet).

I truly don't get it. I think it's neglected and left outside, and my kids have treated it with kindness--maybe it thinks it is part of our family now and so must do the family business as close as possible to where an indoor litter box would be?
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2015 00:34     Subject: Why is your outdoor cat acceptable?
If it is leaving dead mice in your yard that means it loves you. They only do that for people they have real affection for.
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2015 00:31     Subject: Re:Why is your outdoor cat acceptable?
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.)


I will take repeated offenders to the shelter. Their irresponsible owners can go get them there.
Anonymous
Post 12/30/2015 00:29     Subject: Re:Why is your outdoor cat acceptable?
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.)


This is not a fact. It is your opinion.

There are major consequences to letting cats roam. They kill native bird populations and the cats themselves are vulnerable to coyotes, foxes, cars/traffic, disease.

It is cruel to allow pet cats to roam.

Anonymous
Post 12/30/2015 00:22     Subject: Re:Why is your outdoor cat acceptable?
Anonymous wrote:Pets are still animals and having a pet doesn't mean that they stay indoors 24 hours a day (see dogs, walking).


The difference being that dogs are required to be on a leash or behind a fence - not just wandering around at all hours going into people's yards to do their business and getting into fights with other dogs.
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2015 22:43     Subject: Why is your outdoor cat acceptable?
There's a really easy fix for this. Put orange peels around the perimeter of your yard - cats HATE citrus and won't go near it. It also won't hurt them. Win win.
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2015 22:34     Subject: Re:Why is your outdoor cat acceptable?
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.

I'm not sure what cat pee smells like (we have a litter box for our outdoor cat), so I really only get the kitty litter odor. It's too bad that dead mice are being left on your property, but since you seem bothered by animals on your property, perhaps it's good that the cat is getting rid of pests in a natural way?
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2015 22:34     Subject: Why is your outdoor cat acceptable?
We have the same problem in our neighborhood. Multiple cats, too. They get into cat fights, stalk our house because we have an indoor dog, and stalk our kids when they go out to play.

They are a nightmare, but I will say that we do not have mice.
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2015 22:23     Subject: Re:Why is your outdoor cat acceptable?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Kill it and just say it was trespassing and aggressive


You are a bad person.


+1! Wow! What a psycho!
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2015 22:19     Subject: Re:Why is your outdoor cat acceptable?
Anonymous wrote:
Substitute squirrel or bunny and suddenly its ok. The irony! Keeping cats indoors is inhumane.


+1


Nope, not ok. And I have exterminators who help me deal with wild animals. I'm assuming cat owners don't mind if I lay down treatment that will harm or trap or kill their "pets"?
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2015 22:18     Subject: Why is your outdoor cat acceptable?
Btw, my cat insists to come inside to use the bathroom!
Anonymous
Post 12/29/2015 22:16     Subject: Re:Why is your outdoor cat acceptable?
Substitute squirrel or bunny and suddenly its ok. The irony! Keeping cats indoors is inhumane.


+1