Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cats - indoor outdoor or both in cohousing

[Muriel Kranowski (murielk]

We adopted a cat policy only after a few years of living together, when the
obvious problems had become even more obvious. As at Takoma Village, we
agree to grandfather the then-current outdoor cats but to prohibit new
ones. All those original outdoor cats are long deceased. I think this
policy has worked well.

Re the concern that such a policy might make sales more difficult, one of
our original founding couples dropped out of the project because we didn't
have a no-outdoor-cats policy at that time. The man was a passionate birder
and was not willing to live where his neighbors' cats could be outside
killing birds at any time. Also, I know that some people, more recent
purchasers, did rehome their non-indoor cat(s) in order to live here.
   Muriel at Shadowlake Village

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 4:24 PM Sharon Villines via Cohousing-L <
cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

> On Apr 28, 2020, at 2:52 PM, Susan Coberly <susandgeorge [at] gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, Susan from LaQuerencia aka Fresno Cohousing (Fresno CA, USA), with a
> > question and asking for comments / ideas about outdoor or indoor /
> outdoor
> > cats in cohousing community.
>
> We had both indoor and outdoor cats when we moved in. Some of us believed
> that we had an agreement that there would be no more outdoor cats. But
> people were not being told that by owners and people moved in with them.
>
> We finally got a pet policy that grandfathered in the current outdoor cats
> and prohibited any more.
>
> Grandfathering is a great way to get policies changed. No one wants to get
> rid of their cats.
>
> One persuasive argument was that outdoor cats live significantly shorter
> lives than indoor cats. "If you love your cats so much why do you want them
> outside?” Argument by an indoor cat person. (not me).
>
> Sharon
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