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Indoor cats
First let me say I'm not being antagonistic, I'm just interested in the
(apparent) culture difference between the US & the UK as regards our feline friends. With regard to letting cats out: All the cats I know go outside, they (usually) learn their way back home from their local neighbourhood, they don't go too far but suss out gardens, wildlife, other cats and people, and hopefully realise that traffic isn't for playing with. There's not too many birds in London and no-one seems to care about the pigeon population anyway. Some get lost, some get hit by traffic (mine for example isn't allowed out the front to the road, only the back garden where he doesn't seem to want to climb the fence to escape from but if he did I'd let him). It seems natural for a cat to want to venture outside, and to me it's cruel to keep them inside (unless they're not interested). It seems that in the US people are much more likely to force cats to stay indoors, or take them out on a leash (something I've NEVER heard of over here and to be honest I think people would laugh over here if they saw a cat on a lead, but fair play for succeeding in training a cat to do it), or build these enclosure thingies for them, to protect the wildlife, also I've never seen one over here. It's interesting, do you think it's a cultural thing? How long have people in the US been doing these things? Perhaps it's not the general population, just people in cat groups As I say, I wasn't saying that either way is right, it's just interesting how people do things differently. Marcia Lord Otis's slave and minder |
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