Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: regarding outdoor cats

[Joanie Connors (jvcphd]

Both of my indoor-outdoor cats have adjusted to an indoor only life for the
last 8 years. They have a screened in porch for outdoor time, so they sit
in there and chatter at the birds.

They seem to be happy and only one has gotten fat (because of her eating
habits mainly).


On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Karen Carlson <kcarlson2 [at] 
facstaff.wisc.edu
> wrote:

>
> When my old cat would not adjust to indoor-only living (jumped off second
> story balcony, tried to push screens off windows), he was allowed to stay
> out the whole day and inside for the night. To reduce predation of birds, I
> bought him a cat bib (search web for vendors). It's not known whether the
> bib interrupts pouncing or simply makes the cat very visible to birds (who
> have good color vision).This won't stop killing baby bunnies which are
> simply taken from their nests but too few rabbits are a rare problem. This
> cat has died, so my new cats live solely indoors. All our community cats
> live indoors which is consistent with city ordinance.
>
> Karen Carlson
> Arboretum Cohousing Community
> Madison, Wi
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