EllenD
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- Aug 20, 2016
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- Parrots
- Senegal Parrot named "Kane"; Yellow-Sided Green Cheek Conure named "Bowie"; Blue Quaker Parrot named "Lita Ford"; Cockatiel named "Duff"; 8 American/English Budgie Hybrids; Ringneck Dove named "Dylan"
I just don't get it, I never have and I never will...People have a cat, or multiple cats, and they are supposed to be their pets, otherwise why would they get them in the first-place. They get up first thing in the morning, feed their cats, and then put them outside. And then 12 hours later, at sunset or after it's already dark, they open up the door to their house or apartment and start calling for the cat to come home. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. And then their cat comes inside and sleeps all night, then first thing the next morning they're right back outside again all day long. And this is every single day...They only see their cats for an hour or two a day max. So can someone please fill me in as to what the point is in the first place? I'm asking seriously because it makes no sense at all to me, and of course along with this there are the many other obvious issues that go right along with having a cat that you keep this way....
So for 12+ hours a day, every single day, these cat owners don't have a clue where their cats are, what they are doing, who they are with, what they are eating, what they are killing, how many times they are breeding with another cat or being bred by another cat, or who's property they may be going to every single day...And they don't seem to care either. If I let my dog out the door every morning and just let her run all day long, every single day, and didn't bring her back in my house until dark every night, people would call the police, the dogcatcher, Animal-Control, etc. on me pretty much immediately on the first day, and they'd call me an "irresponsible pet owner" and tell me that "I'm neglecting my dog and I need to re-home her to someone who will care about her and take care of her"...But people who let their cats out the door every day, all day long, with no idea where they are or what they are doing act like I'm the crazy, mean person for asking them to stop letting their cats run free all day long every day because they're on my property...And when I call Animal-Control on them and they are given a citation they have to pay and a warning that if they let their cat loose outside again and are caught they will lose their cat and it will be put into a foster-home and adopted to someone else, then I'm the Anti-Christ....
I'm half-venting here and half really asking what it is that I'm missing...I know there are some "Cat-People" who are members of the forum (I'm not accusing you of letting your cats run all day long every day, I know that many cat owners keep their cats inside all the time, or if they do let them outside they keep them tied-up on their own property...It's not all cat-owners, I know that)...However, I'm sure that there are at least a few members here that either currently have at least one outdoor cat that runs free all day long, or that used to have an outdoor cat that ran-free every single day, all day long...So maybe they can fill me in on why I am the bad-guy in this equation because they got their cat taken away from them on warning #3...
So for 12+ hours a day, every single day, these cat owners don't have a clue where their cats are, what they are doing, who they are with, what they are eating, what they are killing, how many times they are breeding with another cat or being bred by another cat, or who's property they may be going to every single day...And they don't seem to care either. If I let my dog out the door every morning and just let her run all day long, every single day, and didn't bring her back in my house until dark every night, people would call the police, the dogcatcher, Animal-Control, etc. on me pretty much immediately on the first day, and they'd call me an "irresponsible pet owner" and tell me that "I'm neglecting my dog and I need to re-home her to someone who will care about her and take care of her"...But people who let their cats out the door every day, all day long, with no idea where they are or what they are doing act like I'm the crazy, mean person for asking them to stop letting their cats run free all day long every day because they're on my property...And when I call Animal-Control on them and they are given a citation they have to pay and a warning that if they let their cat loose outside again and are caught they will lose their cat and it will be put into a foster-home and adopted to someone else, then I'm the Anti-Christ....
I'm half-venting here and half really asking what it is that I'm missing...I know there are some "Cat-People" who are members of the forum (I'm not accusing you of letting your cats run all day long every day, I know that many cat owners keep their cats inside all the time, or if they do let them outside they keep them tied-up on their own property...It's not all cat-owners, I know that)...However, I'm sure that there are at least a few members here that either currently have at least one outdoor cat that runs free all day long, or that used to have an outdoor cat that ran-free every single day, all day long...So maybe they can fill me in on why I am the bad-guy in this equation because they got their cat taken away from them on warning #3...