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Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 10, 2024

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Indoor vs Outdoor cats?

Outdoor. Cat shit might be the one thing that smells worse than dog shit and unlike dogs you can't let the cat out for quick shit and then call them back indoors.

Indoor. It's cheaper/safer in terms of disease risk and thus the amount of vaccinations they require, it's comfier for them in general with respect to weather, and you get to actually encounter them and interact with them more, assuming you spend more time indoors versus outdoors.

Having an outdoor cat is like halfway between having a cat and just feeding a stray cat. Might as well actually commit to having a cat if you want to have a cat.

Depends, do you like feeding birds to cats or feeding cats in the other sense?

Uh, what are you replying to?

To a comment made by @AhhhTheFrench about choosing to get/keep an indoor or outdoor cat?

Why do you ask?

It’s filtered- I presume mods can see it but we can’t.

Oh dear. I just doublechecked and the mod queue is a bit clogged to say the least. Thanks for pointing that out, I could have sworn the filtered comments look different to us mods, but it's probably that we were more on the ball. I've certainly been going through some shit and haven't had the time to contribute.

As it stands, all and sundry may answer his question. I would still vote against an outdoor cat, because my girlfriend has a pronounced tendency to want to steal them if they're cute, even if they obviously have owners. And if you've got a cat, I presume you want it close at hand to do cat things with. (What does one do with a cat? IDK, I'm a dog person)

What does one do with a cat? IDK, I'm a dog person

I had a black cat and I put a black throw blanked on the ledge by the window. I then got a window bird feeder.

The cat realized the birds could still see his eyes so he'd squint to watch them. Then he'd get too excited and thump his paws on the glass.

Basically cats are cute and fairly low maintenance. They don't constantly need your company and are happy to just let you pet them while you use your computer or watch tv.

(I have sorta owned a cat. My mom found a kitten under our car when I was a kid and kept it, though it was more of an outdoor cat*)

Sadly Indian cats are usually not nearly as cozy, cuddly or fluffy as their Western compatriots. Most you see live on the streets, and that makes them lean, embittered and mangy creatures. Seeing the puffy, cuddly and well-maintained ones in London certainly won me over.

But dogs are, from what I can tell, more popular around these parts.

*Autocorrect keeps changing cat to car, and bloody hell that changes the meaning of the quote a bit doesn't it?

Give it catnip to watch it getting high or play with a laser pointer.