I just learned that americans get very angry at you if you tell them you have an outdoor cat.
They think cats need to be locked in houses and they are happier that way

cats current location: unknown, probably shitting in someones flowerbed

Locking cats inside is unironically animal cruelty

>letting your pets roam around freely
if you don't have enough space for one or can't contain them, then don't adopt. it's as absurd as the concept of an "outdoor dog" that roams around the streets by its own

>>212166525
my female cat was outdoors and mainly hanged around in my gardens. Lived to 20 and had a happy life.
My neighbours cat basically spends 18 hours a day hunting in the nearby open field. Keeps hunting rodents like he is in a trance

My dad's outdoor cat just got killed by something and he's been acting distraught over it but I'm just like... wtf do you think happens to a little cat left outside? Their lifespan is objectively half of an indoor cat.

>>212166493 (OP)
b-but muh birderinos!

>>212166493 (OP)
Americans also used to rip out cat's claws so they won't damage the furniture until recently

>>212166572
unfortunately my kot doesnt have many rodents to capture in suburbia. its all they want from life

>>212166493 (OP)
houses with indoor cats fucking stink though

>>212166699
>let out cat
>cat shits into the vegetables of my neighbour
>my house remains pristine
Indoor cat fags btfo

Outdoor cats get run over

>>212166573
>no creature that spends a lot of time outside is safe here because I live in a low-trust shithole where every person has utter disdain for any living being that isn't them
What a grim fucking situation, jesus.

>>212166699
Do they? Is it because of the litterbox? Because cats don't tend to give out a strong odor like dogs

>>212166525
as mother nature intended

>>212166493 (OP)
>cats go outdoors in Europe
>runs around, catches mice, just cat things
>cats go outdoors in America
>captured and tortured by neighbour or eaten by Haitian migrants
It's just a cultural thing. Also don't google "declawing". Shit's vile. Americans are fucked in the head.

>>212166773
Yeah some do, but it beats being in a prison all their life. From my experience it's mostly unneutered male cats who get hit the most during mating season.
My neighbours tomcat got hit like that, but survived. He is more careful now.

Also should mention I don't think cats in big cities should be outdoors - people there shouldn't own cats in the first place (unless they have a big garden)

>>212166789
Yes also our houses are built like ovens so when they shit inside in the summer it starts cooking immediately.

>>212166863
My kot lives indoors I go out with her on incelwalks on a leash

we had an outdoor cat (had), grew up outside and took him in. one day he went outside like he often did and never came back. we're absolutely clueless. castrated, anti flea treatment regularly, combed, we're not negligent
not the first stray we've taken in, but one 404-ing like that was a first and hopefully the last time

Indoor cat lives a long healthy life.
Outdoor cat gets run over by a car or shot with a crossbow by some kid or captured and used in Santa Muerte sacrifice rituals by creepy Mexican families, or as kittens they get eaten by an owl or coyote.

I've had so many outdoor cats just disappear and only ones I brought inside actually lived. (A Mexican family brought noncastrated cats into the neighborhood that bred like crazy and then pretended not to know where they came from when everyone complained)

>>212167800
Seems so

>>212167800
>shot with a crossbow by some kid or captured and used in Santa Muerte sacrifice rituals by creepy Mexican families, or as kittens they get eaten by an owl or coyote
none of these are concerns in my country

>>212166493 (OP)
They're a menace for the bird population so it has it's ups and downs.

I hate cats. I just do.

>>212166777

It isn't just people. Raccoons, dogs, other cats, disease, these things exist. Some make it past all of these hazards and live to 15 but many don't. It's far safer indoors. Wild animals simply don't live long, didn't realize this was foreign knowledge to some.

>>212166569
cats arent dogs, retard

>>212166493 (OP)
have you ever lived in the suburbs? assholes drive at 50 mph while texting on residential streets and they spray pesticides on their lawns.

>>212167800
I've never heard such things happening. Getting run over maybe, people pay attention to cats but sometimes you can't avoid it. But there aren't any real predators here in yuropistan so it's probably a lot safer. Our cat is 13 and he still lives outside most of the time. We live in a very rural area so it might help.

my cat was hit by a car las year though

dont go crying when it gets flattened by a peugot

>>212166572
Sounds like one of my cats, always off hunting, the other always sleeping or looking down on others from above.

>>212166493 (OP)
yeah i learned that too they are insane

>>212168474
did you know that peugeots are called cat's feet in japan?