Indoor and Outdoor Cats

Outdoor Cats
These cats can vagabond freely, run, climb and hunt birds and mice. As consequence, they are less inclined than the interior cats to feeling boring, frustrated or getting weight. For the other side, they are in danger of street accidents (specially the kitties and the old or deaf cats), the wounds in the fights and the diseases transmitted by other cats. The cats of pedigree can be the aim of the thieves. It's very distressing when a cat disappears and the owner doesn't know if he has stolen, has gathered in other house or he can be dead. The cats of the urbanization and the field traverse less danger, but they can suffer wounds, hypothermia or sunstroke. It is suitable to have a cat hole that allows to the cat enter and go out as he likes and look for refuge during a storm or in the time of cold or heat.

Indoor Cats
To live inside the house does that a cat is save of these dangers, but raises possible problems of another nature. It is very easy that the cat lacks stimulus and activity, taking him to problems of behavior as the aggressiveness or to scratch the furniture. The males without neutering can wet the house and the females without sterilizing can wet with more frequency when they are in heat, beside being anxious and meowing the whole day.

The interior ambient of a cat can become more interesting constructing a center of activity or gymnasium of pasteboard boxes with holes in the sides, with big pipes of cardboard in order that they run for them and a tree to climb or strings to rise for them.

If you want to be saved the furniture you must put a scraper post . If one lives in a high floor, to put grids in the frames of the windows, to prevent the cat leaving through an opened window. The cats of interior are in the habit of passing more time coexisting with us by means of the game and the physical contact that those who pass almost all the time in the exterior. However, to have the cat inside the house do not guarantee an unsurpassable relation.

Q/A. Pinky hangs to our feet and legs when we move. He is a domestic cat that passes the day sleeping when we are out. Why does he have this obsession?

After sleeping the whole day, Pinky is ready to act when you come home and your feet have turned into his prey. Try to get some gymnastic equipment and play with him to stimulate him before and after work. Use toys that roll or of those which can be thrown far away, in order for him to jump on them and not on you.

My cat Felisa is 8 years old and has lived always inside the house. Now we have changed to the countryside. Will she be in danger if we let let her out?

No, although probably she will be very shy and unsociable until she gets used to the sight and the sounds of the exterior world. Beware that she does not get scared and escapes. Go with her initially, offering her a delicacy to make her return. There are cats that never risk beyond the house or the garden: if she prefers being in the house, do not force her.