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Keeping cats indoors is a rare solution where everybody wins (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 year ago by trk@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone
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I am not here to make the case that cats should be kept indoors for the sake of local wildlife – that case has been made over and over and over and over again. Cat owners know these arguments, and if they have not been persuaded by the fact that cats kill more than 6 million native animals in Australia a day they will not be persuaded by me.

There is a fairly tedious assumption that if you love wildlife you must hate cats, and visa versa. And nothing will turn cat people off faster than encountering a person who hates cats.

I understand this. I also hate people who hate cats. So let’s set the birds and the bettongs to one side for the moment, and consider the other, obvious fact: cats should be kept indoors for the sake of cats.

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[-] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

How do you deal with a cat that's used to roaming?

We have one indoor only cat but the other one was a feral kitten we found and we have never been able to contain them without them going nuts, which makes the indoor cat miserable too.

[-] Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Time, in my experience.

I've rehabilitated several feral cats, each older than 2 years. It just takes a few weeks to adjust.

[-] Instigate@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

That’s a hard one because I’ve never experienced it before myself. I guess it depends on what you mean by ‘going nuts’. My assumption is that the longer you keep them inside, the more they adapt to the lifestyle and the easier it will become. You could also build a cat run / outdoor enclosure for them, or leash and harness train them to go on walks. I’ve had good experiences with using feliway to help calm cats too - that may help. If the issue is that the kitten is territorial, then it might help to set up a private area for them and ensure that they have their own separate litter box that other cats can’t use.

[-] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It just meows non-stop, day and night, drives the other cat mad.

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