Sonya
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Tell me what you like, dislike about your indoor cat...
I've never had an indoor cat, but my outside cat of 8 yrs got hit last week and I am finding myself missing him terribly. Everytime I go to the garage I look for him. I want another one, but outside - I just don't know...it seems they always get hit by a car eventually. I live in a rural area, my house is 1/4 mile from the road which is only a one-way road, but cats roam so much, even fixed ones, it almost seems inevitable that they are going to meet their fate on a road, my cats brother got hit 6 yrs ago. Plus, since cats roam so much, I know they go places where they are not wanted...neighbors, etc...and many people are against their hunting habits.
So tell me....do they get up on your counters, table??? I'm not sure I can handle that. I'm sure they get on your furniture and beds, I think I can live with that. Plus I have 2 inside dogs...dogs love cat poop...how do you keep your dogs from getting into it?
What are the pros and cons...this is a big decison for me. Hubby said he does not want an indoor cat (suddenly he's allergic, never heard that before in the past 13yrs)...this will certainly be a decision we make together though.
Also - we go away alot - we have a camp that we go to on our weekends in the summer. Do we leave the cat at home or take him with us? Our camp is a 5th wheel trailer in a campground. I do have a petsitter who takes care of my goats/horses/chickens while we're gone so it would be nothing for her to dump his/her litter box and make sure he/she has food.
Just tell me what you like/dislike about inside cat and what you think about our situation going away...note - our dogs go with us.
edited to add - the cat could go to camp with us too, that would not be a problem, our trailer has air...we spend majorities of our days there on the boat with the dogs along, I know the cat can't go on the boat...I don't think it would be happy there.
I've never had an indoor cat, but my outside cat of 8 yrs got hit last week and I am finding myself missing him terribly. Everytime I go to the garage I look for him. I want another one, but outside - I just don't know...it seems they always get hit by a car eventually. I live in a rural area, my house is 1/4 mile from the road which is only a one-way road, but cats roam so much, even fixed ones, it almost seems inevitable that they are going to meet their fate on a road, my cats brother got hit 6 yrs ago. Plus, since cats roam so much, I know they go places where they are not wanted...neighbors, etc...and many people are against their hunting habits.
So tell me....do they get up on your counters, table??? I'm not sure I can handle that. I'm sure they get on your furniture and beds, I think I can live with that. Plus I have 2 inside dogs...dogs love cat poop...how do you keep your dogs from getting into it?
What are the pros and cons...this is a big decison for me. Hubby said he does not want an indoor cat (suddenly he's allergic, never heard that before in the past 13yrs)...this will certainly be a decision we make together though.
Also - we go away alot - we have a camp that we go to on our weekends in the summer. Do we leave the cat at home or take him with us? Our camp is a 5th wheel trailer in a campground. I do have a petsitter who takes care of my goats/horses/chickens while we're gone so it would be nothing for her to dump his/her litter box and make sure he/she has food.
Just tell me what you like/dislike about inside cat and what you think about our situation going away...note - our dogs go with us.
edited to add - the cat could go to camp with us too, that would not be a problem, our trailer has air...we spend majorities of our days there on the boat with the dogs along, I know the cat can't go on the boat...I don't think it would be happy there.
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