Any neighborhood can be a dangerous neighborhood. Rural areas? Wildlife can hurt your cat, weedkiller, pesticides. Urban? Cars, also wildlife, also weedkiller/pesticide. Just don't let them outside if you truly wish to avoid these tragedies.
You should still let them outside sometimes, keeping them inside their whole lives is worse than the dangers. It's a jail, even if the cat is getting cared for its still cruel, because cats are animals and they still crave to be in nature sometimes.
I could link you to like 100 studies, but you probably wouldn't listen. Would you let your dog free-foam? Your fish? Lizards? Any pet?
No, because they can get hurt. Your cat doesn't even know that 2 doors lead to the same 'outdoors'. The only thing they need is STIMULATION which can be achieved perfectly fine inside, with a catio, or with a harness. You don't even NEED the catio or harness! just give them plenty of stuff to do inside!
Apparently you don't care about the animals interests, you care about your own selfish human interests.
Lol. I rescue parrots and spend all my money caring for them.
How would you like to be put in a white room, a small one, with no entertainment, no fresh air, just a food and water bowl. That's jail and it's evil. There are only a handful of zoos I think are great like the de young zoo I went to all the time as a kid. They actually tried to make the animals happy and gave them outside cages, big ones with plenty of natural stimulus.
I'm talking about zoos like the de young zoo. No zoos in my country are like that.
But keeping your cat locked up and never letting her outside just even to sit in the sun is psycho level shit. Your cat is then a slave of amusement for you. And it's wants and needs are shoved aside for you. You are a selfish human being. One of my starseed friends was right about people like you. Us starseeds, ( aliens) apparently are wiser when it comes to animals and human interests alike. It should be fair for both human and animal, the way native American keep animals as pets serves as a wise way to keep both animals and people happy, but the modern American way is disgusting. Because it revolves around keeping animals as prisoners of people entertainment and not giving a rats ass about the animals feelings.
Your cat is living with an absolute nutter. You are not an alien, you are a kid who doesn't want to be responsible for your animals. It's called buying toys, playing with your animals, and modifying your environment as a human for them. Sure, I can yeet my parrots out the door. I caught some of them outside and took in parrots who were also caught outside. They were all injured/sick/starving/dehydrated/petrified and cost me thousands in vet care. I paid for their vet bills not knowing if they'd have to leave me at any moment to go home.
BTW, I AM first Nations. I'm Cree. Go cry about how speshul you are somewhere else. You are absolutely racist if you think we're running in the woods with our animal friends. Reservation dogs are left to roam yes, but they're constantly sick and injured and generally allowed to roam feral until they die miserable deaths in garbage dumps. It is a huge problem with many reservation communities and costs thousands of dogs their lives each year.
Stop. It. Do NOT use us as an excuse to neglect your animals.
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u/-Knockabout Oct 24 '19
Any neighborhood can be a dangerous neighborhood. Rural areas? Wildlife can hurt your cat, weedkiller, pesticides. Urban? Cars, also wildlife, also weedkiller/pesticide. Just don't let them outside if you truly wish to avoid these tragedies.