WOW.
All I can say is there is a lot of misinformed cat haters out there. But I guess it would also be stupid to expect a cat hater to even begin to understand cat behavior in the first place.
A good example of this so-called yard destruction these cats are supposedly doing requires a little clarification. My grand parents used to go on and on about all the destruction that the occasional stray cat was supposedly doing to their yard and garden. On my frequent visits there, I saw the holes that were dug around the place, and the plants dug up, but I could not imagine it was cats doing the digging. All the feral and stray cats I had observed in the past simply did not go around digging up plants for sport. Then one day I discovered a dead mole on the porch, which was killed I presume by a cat. I pointed this fact out to the grandparents during their continued cat tirades which fell on deaf ears. Then on another trip to their house, I discovered a large box turtle that had dug under one of the plants roots. Once again, the so-called cat destruction was being caused by a turtle, not a cat. Then they discovered there was not one turtle in the backyard, but many turtles in the backyard. It seemed the first turtle was preggars. Suddenly, it was let's love all the stray turtles in the backyard, including feeding them, and naming some of them. The digging in the yard reached epic amounts by this time, but because it was 20 or so turtles doing it, it was suddenly cute and acceptable. And the mindless cat hating they exhibited for YEARS gradually stopped, when it was clear what was actually digging up the yard and gardens. And I was clearly vindicated that it was NOT the occasional cat doing all the damage. But how many years did it take them to realize this and change their minds? Maybe 25 or more?
Another home I lived in had a LOT of wildlife around it, and oddly enough, it was in the center of a huge city area. We lived near a gigantic cement drainage culvert that had some dense brush along the sides of it, behind a fence. We had numerous raccoons (entire families of them) which did a LOT of structure damages, such as ripping screens up, clawing the woodwork and knocking over potted plants. They were even able to open items kept on the back porch, including a few paint cans that were not tightly sealed and they left painted my excellent compatriot prints all over EVERYTHING proving what they were actually damaging. Once again, it was not the stray cats doing any of it, unlike what all the neighbors went on and on about all the stray cats doing all this damage to their property. I would go out back, at night, and frequently see possums digging up the yard and garden, along with armadillos searching for roots and grubs. But all the dense cat hating neighbors could not begin to be persuaded, unless they happened to personally see this happening over and over again over the course of YEARS.
What the heck is wrong with all these appallingly blind and misinformed cat haters? Just because your parents hate cats for no good and logical reason, that is good enough for you, too? Did you just convieniently forget in all your mindless cat hate about the thousands of other types of wildlife out there damaging your yards and houses? Those cats you despise so much are actually doing you a FAVOR by reducing the numbers of these destructive animals, like rodents, that would otherwise be eating holes in your houses and electrical wiring.
I had raccoons clawing up the insulation underneath the hood of my brand new truck and yanking out wires and chewing on them! I saw them running out from under my truck countless times! They cats would fight with them, on occasion, and run them off! Yea, the cats might piss on my tires a few times, but it would wash off. The damage to the trucks engine compartment was not so easily fixed with a water hose. The raccoons would even chew on my hoses and move them around my yard! I feel sure some brain dead cat hater who never ventured out at night to observe the wildlife would be happy to blame all this wanton destruction on their neighbors stray cats!
Also a lot of the time when the cats would be howling at night, and annoying the cat hating neighbors, guess what? Most of the time when I went out to see what the racket was, they were howling and hissing at all the raccoons and possums trying to destroy the house and yard! Meanwhile, the neighbors DUMB dogs would just lie there SLEEPING while the same wildlife ate the food out of all their dog dishes! Great property protectors there, Fido! WAY TO GO!
But getting back on track with a little cat behavior for a moment here. Some pets cats simply cannot be contained continuously in a house. They will go completely crazy in a house. I had cats before that were like the pit bulls of cats. Some domesticated cats get this gene that just makes them hardly tamable, except to their owners. And these super cats are usually extremely strong, too. If you ever pet one, all you can feel is harden muscles, like some Olympic athlete on steroids. Even spaying or neutering does almost nothing to subdue these cats. Maybe these are those cats all you die hard cat haters out there can justify a little cat hate on. If you ever intentionally cross one, you will surely be very sorry indeed you ever mistreated a cat, especially when it attaches itself to your head, which these mutant cats are prone to do.
But there are also other cats, which are not mutants, which simply have to go outside periodically to relieve some inner cat calling to wander. I have a some what feral male and female cat (who have been fixed) who will suddenly and quickly sneak out of the house while carrying in groceries, or if someone knocks at the door. I am simply not fast enough to stop them from doing this. And they literally will howl and bounce off the walls inside to be let out at times. I do not willingly let them out, and they will return when they want to, not when I want them inside. Usually if it is cold or rains or when hungry they will return. Yea, I also get upset when they get out, but it is clearly a choice the cat is making, and not me.
And where do my various pet cats I had in my life come from? All from careless owners who move away, or from neighbors who die or get moved into nursing homes and the families just leave the poor cats outside to rot and die. I have placed maybe 20 cats or so in my life, that I have personally fixed, tamed and trained enough to go to a good home. Our animal control agency who works in my small rural community puts the vast majority of cats it receives or traps to sleep, like 99% of them. And if you trap a feral cat or cats, more feral cats will move into that area almost immediately, which is a cats natural inclination to do, whether feral or a pet cat just occasionally wandering around. So simply removing unwanted cats will not fix the cat population problems, ever. Which is why a lot of rural communities have local and state sponsored programs to capture, fix and release feral cats back into the wild.
Remember a cat is not some stupid dog who licks his butt and then your mouth and you can beat into submission and bend to your will and chain in your backyard and forget about, like most couldn't care less dog "lovers" do. But simply having a dog in your yard will usually stop any cat problems. However the rest of the destructive wildlife your dog chooses to ignore is another matter. And continuously blaming all that constant property destruction on a domesticated cat is just plain idiotic.
Next topic up: Why mindlessly hate on snakes?
it is accepted as rain is accepted. its a fundamental difference. perhaps you are the perfect example of cat defenders being irrational
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