Queen of the WDW Scene
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- Aug 24, 2016
First I will say that I've had 2 other cats... first one, then two, then just one as the other passed from old age.
They both went out and until both reached an older age I was not concered about them being outside and neither passed from a complication due to the outdoors.
Now... My current cat will be 2 in a couple of weeks.
I have had her since she was 8 weeks old.
I did not want her to go out but after she went into heat for the first time (yes she is fixed) that is all she has wanted to do.
Last year I did let start letting her out mid August. In late December she got out at night and was injured when she came in.
After the abscess she had was healed and antibiotics were done we let her back out.
She got hurt again in mid March. After that we decided not to let her out.
After 6 whole months of her not going out other than the 3 times she got out for 20 minutes each because she would be at the door every time someone walk in the house I decided in mid September to let her out again.
In the broiling 90 degree days she was a very good kitty outside. Now that it has started getting colder she is much more active outside and I swear she looks for trouble.
So now I'd like to try to keep her in. I realize its unfair to keep changing my mind but her being out makes me nervous and her being in makes me want to let her out because all she does is give really loud long meows at the door all day making it hard to listen and hard to get in and out of the house. Eventually she will leave the door to come annoy me by meowing at me and when I try to play she just runs for the door again.
She has plenty of toys and 3 different windows she can easily sit and look out of.
When I play with her and she doesn't run to the door she will play for a couple minutes and then just sit there while I attempt to play but then I get tired of tossing cat toys, wiggling stings toys on the floor, making wand toys peak a boo through her cat tunnel.... and go to do something else.
She does not have a cat tree play house thing and I wonder if that would help but it would go in the basement because there's just not room anywhere else.
I also am leaning more and more towards getting another cat hoping they will entertain each other and forget about the great outdoors.
Every cat person I know judges me for even considering letting her out but they all also have multiple cats so I feel like they can't get the rull picture of how difficult it can be.
I'm just not sure what to do at this point.
Does anyone have any non judging advice to give me?
They both went out and until both reached an older age I was not concered about them being outside and neither passed from a complication due to the outdoors.
Now... My current cat will be 2 in a couple of weeks.
I have had her since she was 8 weeks old.
I did not want her to go out but after she went into heat for the first time (yes she is fixed) that is all she has wanted to do.
Last year I did let start letting her out mid August. In late December she got out at night and was injured when she came in.
After the abscess she had was healed and antibiotics were done we let her back out.
She got hurt again in mid March. After that we decided not to let her out.
After 6 whole months of her not going out other than the 3 times she got out for 20 minutes each because she would be at the door every time someone walk in the house I decided in mid September to let her out again.
In the broiling 90 degree days she was a very good kitty outside. Now that it has started getting colder she is much more active outside and I swear she looks for trouble.
So now I'd like to try to keep her in. I realize its unfair to keep changing my mind but her being out makes me nervous and her being in makes me want to let her out because all she does is give really loud long meows at the door all day making it hard to listen and hard to get in and out of the house. Eventually she will leave the door to come annoy me by meowing at me and when I try to play she just runs for the door again.
She has plenty of toys and 3 different windows she can easily sit and look out of.
When I play with her and she doesn't run to the door she will play for a couple minutes and then just sit there while I attempt to play but then I get tired of tossing cat toys, wiggling stings toys on the floor, making wand toys peak a boo through her cat tunnel.... and go to do something else.
She does not have a cat tree play house thing and I wonder if that would help but it would go in the basement because there's just not room anywhere else.
I also am leaning more and more towards getting another cat hoping they will entertain each other and forget about the great outdoors.
Every cat person I know judges me for even considering letting her out but they all also have multiple cats so I feel like they can't get the rull picture of how difficult it can be.
I'm just not sure what to do at this point.
Does anyone have any non judging advice to give me?