I am heavily questioning the life of a confined cat being better than the life of a cat that is free to go where it wants. The moment you have 2 cats that get along it’s unlikely to be a bad life, but you have no way of telling how another being unable to communicate complex thoughts to you considers their quality of life to be.
You also got to realize people are also putting their cats at risk by letting them go out on their own while there are wild life out. There are coyotes, predatory birds, big cats, etc. that will not hesitate in including house cats as their food. There are too many stories of cat owners losing their cats because they never came back home
That is true (well, where I live there are few actual dangers to cats but that’s just region dependent) but in general I believe a short, but more fulfilling life to be better than a longer, less fulfilling one. Which I’m aware is subjective.
There are coyotes, predatory birds, big cats, etc.
Not in the civilised world there ain’t. We ate, domesticated, or otherwise drove those to extinction hundreds or even thousands of years ago.
Most dangerous things around these parts (besides free-roaming cats) are cars, and a good public transport system together with a street and road network built around pedestrians and bikes (and said public transport) will get rid of most of those, too (though the reduction in noise might lead to more birds; nothing is perfect).
I can’t speak for where you live in, but these are still real considerations for any pet owner. Wild life still exists inside and outside of urban areas, especially suburban areas. Just because there may not be as much sightings of predators around the areas you live in doesn’t mean the same for other people who live in different areas
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I am heavily questioning the life of a confined cat being better than the life of a cat that is free to go where it wants. The moment you have 2 cats that get along it’s unlikely to be a bad life, but you have no way of telling how another being unable to communicate complex thoughts to you considers their quality of life to be.
Oh yeah one of my cats is scarily good at murder. mice, shrews, moles, birds, snakes, probably other things too.
You also got to realize people are also putting their cats at risk by letting them go out on their own while there are wild life out. There are coyotes, predatory birds, big cats, etc. that will not hesitate in including house cats as their food. There are too many stories of cat owners losing their cats because they never came back home
That is true (well, where I live there are few actual dangers to cats but that’s just region dependent) but in general I believe a short, but more fulfilling life to be better than a longer, less fulfilling one. Which I’m aware is subjective.
Not in the civilised world there ain’t. We ate, domesticated, or otherwise drove those to extinction hundreds or even thousands of years ago.
Most dangerous things around these parts (besides free-roaming cats) are cars, and a good public transport system together with a street and road network built around pedestrians and bikes (and said public transport) will get rid of most of those, too (though the reduction in noise might lead to more birds; nothing is perfect).
I can’t speak for where you live in, but these are still real considerations for any pet owner. Wild life still exists inside and outside of urban areas, especially suburban areas. Just because there may not be as much sightings of predators around the areas you live in doesn’t mean the same for other people who live in different areas