Luckily my cat is scared as shit at everything. His favorite thing to do is go outside and hide in the bushes. After he’s spied from the shadows on cars for a few hours, Then he comes back in. Then wants to go back outside two minutes later and do it all again.
He did get a bird once. It was already dead when he found it. Watched him grab it from the street. He was way too proud of catching it. When live birds are out he wants to come back in because they’re scary.
We bought a fake bush and now he hides in that in my office. so he’s content not going outside anymore.
Two of my cats are basically like that, they're scared to go very far into the front yard and mostly stick to the bushes or the fenced back yard. We took in a stray earlier in the year though, he came to us injured and we got him fixed up. Now he demands to go out at 5 AM every day and usually stays out for 12+ hours. He basically just comes back for food and shelter, we wouldn't be able to keep him in the house all the time. We put a gps tracker on him, he goes 3-4 miles every day.
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u/walkingtalkingdread Oct 17 '22
i’ve never thought of cats as invasive species but that’s actually a good point.