Re: OT Cat Advice Needed

Hi Daryl,
        I have three formally outdoor cats and one indoor cat. Sydney, the
indoor since kittenhood, is the only one that bolts onto the deck and then
is clueless as what to do next. The other three were outdoor and indoor too.
Cody was a rescue and shows no interest in running out...but given a
chance...like the time they leanned on the screen to see an outdoor cat
better...and the screen popped out..then he's out. Cody probably had enough
of the outdoors before he was rescued.
        My other two, Buff and Tony, were indoor/outdoor when living with my
mother-in-law. They went out at night for about an hour or two and then
returned before she went to bed, watched tv with her. When they came to live
with us, they had twice the running space indoors, lots of windows to watch
the wild life and have shown no interest in going back outside. Which is a
good thing since we have fox, coyote, bear and mountain lions in the area. A
lost animal sign is more of an obit in my neighborhood.
        As Diesel gets older, right now he is a teen ager and acts like it,
he will probably settle down. The tether, as Pam suggests, sounds like a
great idea.

betsy
>
> Daryl wrote:
> > Diesel really loves being outside, and spends hours either on the
> > screened porch or perched in an open window. I thought he'd be a happy
>
> > inside cat, but I guess he spent too long outside before we brought
> him in.
> >
> > Anyway, a year later, and he still wants out. A couple of times he's
> > dodged out with the dogs. Once, he cruised out while I was slaving
> > over the drawing board and didn't realize that the dogs had opened the
>
> > door a bit. Another time, he apparently pounced at a bird or chipmunk,
>
> > and pulled the screen right off the porch pillar.
> >
> > Anyway. He's let me pick him up and bring him in each time. I've been
> > careful not to pick him up the first time he approaches me in the
> > garden, so that he doesn't associate me with a quick trip inside, and
> > when we're inside I've been trying to teach him to come when called
> > (yeah, laugh at me- I've only had dogs before), but I'm sure there
> > will come a time when I can't pick him up and he'll out-stubborn me.
> >
> > So. For those of you with indoor-outdoor cat experience - do they just
>
> > wander in when they get tired of being outside? Do they come when you
> > call? Have you been able to teach them to avoid roads? We've got a
> fenced yard, but a 4'
> > chain link fence is no match for an athletic cat, I"m sure.
> >
> > d
> >
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