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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
On a farm, cats should be outside. In the city, with neighbors all around, they belong inside. No one wants to step in someone elses cat poo-poo, or have to clean it up. Outside, cats are susceptible to being run over, poisoned, or attacked by other animals. They pick up all sorts of fleas, ticks and diseases. (we have coyotes here, in a city of 106,000) I love my cat enough to keep him in.
I do feel, on the other hand, that dogs should not be kept by people that are gone all day, leaving them alone either inside or outside. Dogs crave human interaction. Cats don't. Not as much, anyway.
I can't believe there is something I actually disagree with you on!  |
Actually we really don't disagree. I understand cats and cat people. It's just that all of my cat experience was in the country (sans coyotes) and Thistle made a large impression on me. Other cats just don't live up to her standards. She never allowed a grown Tom on the place. She would chase them off, even to the point that her own "romances" were never conducted on our place. She also, often ran large dogs off the place, with scratched noses & eyes. As I said, she was the matriarch.
I do have a problem with people de-clawing cats although I understand their desires to save their furniture. Since cats are independent creatures, it just seems more wrong to keep them in jail, i.e. in a house, as opposed to small dogs (even if it is for their own good and preserves their life and safety). Again, this is probably because I'm measuring all cats against Thistle.
Now if I were ever reincarnated and had to choose either a cat or a dog, I would choose to be a cat. I'm not much of a pack animal.