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Originally Posted by jkeene
No "head" news today, slight drizzle may be making the cat's stash house hard to reach. So he came in all friendly like, wanting to rub his face and whiskers on us. It's one of his favorite ways to wake us up.
We'd keep the cats indoors full-time, but they're all rescue cats that have had a taste of the outdoors. Tried it for a few days, hard to say whether it was the cats or the humans that were crazier in that time.
But they've never brought us birds, at least. Live frogs, and lizards too. Dead snakes, which they've killed and brought back, or intruders that they've attacked in the house. When the raccoons walk in they alert us, but don't attack. Some discretion allowed, even in the predator brain, it seems. Must be helping somehow, our oldest cats made it to seventeen ok. Not much car hazard here, though.
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Yes, I definitely think it makes a difference whether or not they have ever lived outdoors or not. These two came straight to me as kittens from the animal shelter, so they truly don't know any other way of life. They seem pretty satisfied as long as they can lounge on the windowsill and watch the birds and squirrels.