Your cat is likely to live longer if you don’t let them roam
https://theconversation.com/your-cat-is-likely-to-live-longer-if-you-dont-let-them-roam-new-study-276282
Your cat is likely to live longer if you don’t let them roam
https://theconversation.com/your-cat-is-likely-to-live-longer-if-you-dont-let-them-roam-new-study-276282
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In other news, the sky is blue during the day.
My wife read on the internet,
Dogs that sleep on the owners bed live on average 4 years longer.
I don’t know if it’s true, but boy does he hog the foot of the bed.
My goldfish lives in a tiny bowl is already 3 weeks old. So yeah I agree.
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No shit, but try telling most cat owners that. They’ll insist that their precious kitty is suicidally depressed at staying inside and even though they tried it for a day it just didn’t work so they just *have* to let it roam and kill wildlife.
Research and Veterinary data on how lifestyle affects pet cat lifespan
|Lifestyle|Typical lifespan|Notes|
|:-|:-|:-|
|**I**ndoor-Limited Outdoor|12–18 years (often reaching 20+)|Kept indoors and/or in a cat enclosure, cared for by owners.|
|Allowed to Roam|8–12 years|Allowed outside with no restrictions but still owned and cared for; lifespan reduced by outdoor risks.|
I hope we ban these as pets at some point
If you call that a living.
Seriously though, no cats please
Friend overseas let her cat out over summer after 10 plus years inside. Cat did some hunting, caught birds and snakes and what have you. Back indoors for the winter it’s lost about five pounds and won’t touch its cat food any longer. So I’d believe this!
I was discussing this with my cat the other day and he said “If I had the choice to live 1 day as a free cat or a decade as a caged one, I’d choose the former. Carpe Diem, my human friend, carpe diem.”
Try telling Queenslanders this. I’ve never seen so many neglected roaming cats and pitbulls.
My dad insisted that my cat was outdoors during daylight hours while I lived with the parentals, even though I argued it wasn’t just about protecting him but the wildlife as well. I came home from work one day to see a brown snake near the front door, and my cat nearby. He was fine, and the snake was rescued, but a couple days later it was clear something was up.
The snake had bitten him — and I’ll never know if he knew to bring the snake with him, or if their fight happened right there, but if I wasn’t aware the snake was involved I would’ve just guessed he had a stroke and made the decision to put him down.
This was about 6 years ago. It cost me over 1k but [Chance](https://www.reddit.com/r/CatSmiles/s/eligUW1esj) is currently curled up in my lap and life’s good. He turns 14 next month, and he’s been an indoor cat since that incident. I don’t live with the parents anymore and that was a big reason why we moved out.
Sure but my last cat roamed, even got lost and disappeared for a month twice, and lived for ~22 years. There are other, better reason to not let them roam.
Didn’t know this. Might have to start letting the cat roam.
Sometimes you can’t keep them in. I had a cat who broke out no matter what we did to stop it. He ripped the cat door out of the door, he even managed to exploit a cracked pane in a window.
So will the baby birds…
Don’t cats kill about 4 BILLION wild animals every year in Oz? Bunch of serial killers.