The Adventurous Cat

There is no doubt that cats that have freedom to go outside to the streets and that have a warm and secure home where to come back, enjoy the best of both worlds, due that they can put in practice their hunting and attacking abilities without having to confront constantly the challenge of surviving.

Risks
On the exterior world, there exists without doubts many dangers, being the car traffic the main danger. Even so, it's surprising that the deaths aren't more considering the high numbers of cats that wander through the streets. City cats seem to have develop a certain special sense against cars, and it's not strange to see cats observing both sides of a street before crossing fast to the other side.

Anyways, the more dangerous streets (as it happens with children) are the cities streets in which cars park near the sidewalks preventing the visibility of incoming cars. Although it might seem strange, the risk of accidents is more liable with country cats that are not used to traffic, and don't perceive it as a danger tending not give it the due attention. Another risk is the fighting, though bloody fights between cats are not very usual less if the animals are sterilized. Also there is th risks of suffering serious wounds with the existing dangers of catching some infectious disease, as is the feline leukemia and cat aids through the blood or the saliva.

Anyway, most of the confrontations between cats consist in more warning signals that end when things get clear.

It is not frequent for cats, no matter how curious they are, to get shut in unknown places or to get lost, for example, due that they generally have a good orientation sense, they know where their house is and they don't adventure themselves to go further safe when they are frighten for something or if they are thrown away from their territory by a rival. If this happens, he tends to be disorientated and, in the lack of odor marks familiar to him, he wanders without direction.

Night dangers
Cats the expose themselves to greater risks are those that go out of home at night. There is no doubt that this practice responds to the fact that felines are by natural nocturnal animals, but the truth is that most of them hunt at dawn and at noon, hours that domestic cats also choose so there is no reason why they should spend all the night out, and it is easy for them to get used to return home at noon, overall if you call them too eat at those hours. Verify that doors are well shut at night, and have in mind that many cats look for warm places in other homes if they lack it at home, which also makes them feature more than one quarrel at unreasonable hours.

To have in mind
It is worth mentioning that there are two possible inconveniences for letting the cats go outside. One, is the hostility of the neighbors,, overall if they have passion for their garden or if they love birds. There are also those who suffer from aeluro phobia or are afraid of cats. In these cases, the most advisable is to negotiate with the neighbors, for example, buying repellent crystals for their plants, which odor is unbearable for cats, or to permit them to expel the cat from their yard with a water pistol.

Bird lovers are more difficult to make them happy, but maybe you could explain to them that birds almost always escape from cats.

The noise and movements of birds are things that are so rooted inside felines instincts that to prevent them from calling attention is like trying to change evolution. The other problem is the need they have for bringing to the house "Hunting trophies".

Although they mean it as a gift (cats like to share their good luck), to find the rests, sometimes alive, from mice and birds is not of good taste.

What you can do to teach cats where to leave their offerings outside, retiring them without giving them any sign of praise and offering them a tasty snack instead.

There is no sense in protesting, this will only confuse the animal, whose only intention was to do right.