Your cat is a member of the family. If you had a kid and gave it food twice a day, never talked to it, and didn't learn how to let it talk to you, your kid would also develop an internal life that you're not really part of.
What if my kid gets all kinds of treats and play, all the cuddles they want (which varies from kid to kid and day to day), in a house full of people who love them and they still puke on my floor for fun after eating too fast?
Sometimes you have to look in the mirror and think "did my cat learn about binging and puking from watching me?"
Tbf my cats do like video games and cheese. Maybe I’m sleep-barfing 🤔
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Speak for yourself, my absolute dope of a cat was able to resolve the mouse problem in my new apartment within 48 hours (she didn't even manage to catch any, her mere presence was apparently sufficient).
But how's your grain doing?
As my friend's dad said after finding his wife's cat with a headless mouse
"I hate cats, but I love a good mouser."
For the first few months after I moved to a rural area my cat caught about 1 mouse/week. After that, there were no mice.
Of course she brought them to my bedroom at three in the morning, still alive. And I sometimes stepped on decapitated mice in the morning. And she left dead ones on my keyboard. And I had to get a new mechanical keyboard when the guts got into it and it started to smell like death. She's still the best
My cat never brought his kills home. Only once did he bring something, years ago.
Look, I have an idea of what insides of a rodent look like. What was on my kitchen floor I could not identify to this day. It had no feathers, no fur. There were huge amounts of round fat globules. There was no blood whatsoever, no feet, now claws, no beak.
My cat probably prevented some kind of alien invasion.
If your cat relieves themself outside of their litter tray, something is probably out of sorts: perhaps they’re distressed by something in their environment, or otherwise have some health issues. The cat’s litter-tray instinct normally makes them uniquely suited to indoor living.
my cat pissed in the bed once and I immediately stepped up the hygiene of their litter boxes. It pays off to realise that your cat doesn't do things to spite you. If they "misbehave" its usually a problem in their living space. Right now I just just need to teach them not to shit in my raised bed... Maybe I'll get another litter box for the balcony, though they've gotten better
It pays off to realise that your cat doesn’t do things to spite you.
I don't know about kitty hygiene in particular, but I've known enough cats to know that's not true in general :p
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I catsat my then gf’s cat for a weekend and the mouse issue I had went away.
My friend’s neighborhood has a cat that keeps the rodent population in check. Also kills all the birds but you take the good with the bad, I guess.
I love my cats, but I'd rather my neighborhood have birds.
My cat is a fantastic mouser. He offers them to me as gifts.
Countryside cats are still pretty much the former.
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