Indoor cat + windows

What about those concertina arrangements that you see for car windows? It looks like a trellis that opens up to fill the gap.
 
SlugForAButt said:
I hope your cat escapes and gets taken in by someone with a ground floor front door tbh.
I think keeping a "house cat" is rather cruel, akin to keeping a human in a cage from birth. Saying they don't know any different is irrelevent surely?
Doesn't the fact that she may want to get out make you feel guilty?
Still, who cares about the cat as long as you get pleasure...
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My cat doesn't like going outside.
He's been out a few times, either just cries at the window until you let him back in and give him a cuddle; or he scuttles off and cries a few doors up until you let him back in.
 
Firstly 'In door cat'? Is this the personal preference of the cat? Secondly even being first floor a cat will easily make such a leap and be okay, why, well I've witness my cat come vertically down infront of the downstairs window protesting that this giant leap was better than the prospect of the Dyson coming a step closer by the girlfreind. Next time get a cat when you have a garden :)
 
I wish I knew why people insisted on keeping animals they don't really have the circumstances for simply because they find them cute. It's very selfish. Cats need to be let out.
 
@ iand: how'd it go in the end with the window precautions?

@ folks who think 'house cats' is a bad thing: my cat is a house cat. He was not always so. He used to go out quite a bit. Then one day he didn't come back. He was missing for 6 months and when I found him again (miracle) at the end of our street, he was thin and scraggly and had had something that punctured his left eye, causing it to be all sunken in. His remaining eye had quite a bad scratch on the lens. After 2 weeks being fed lots and given antibiotics, we took him to the vets and had his damaged eye removed.

He mooches in the back yard under supervision, but he is not allowed out on his own anymore. For a start he had no depth perception any longer which sometimes causes him difficulty with familiar obstacles indoors, never mind traffic, other cats and the like.

Is not all cut and dried. Cats may well be independent but 'letting nature take its course' and looking after your animals do not always see eye to eye.
 
I recently moved into a house that has a shared front landing, and the living space is all on the first floor. As a result of this, my GF and I decided to wait till we moved on again before rehoming a healthy cat. Keeping one indoors 24/7 is just wrong.

There are exceptions, such as ill, specialist or old animals, and I would re-home such a creature in my current house. I am always on the hunt for a decrepid old mangy thing to take in as a "house cat" :)

Stupot_ said:
I don't understand, Fox. Can you clarify your post please?
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Fox double posted by accident, so removed the duplicate text.
 
[TW]Fox;16822537 said:
I wish I knew why people insisted on keeping animals they don't really have the circumstances for simply because they find them cute. It's very selfish. Cats need to be let out.
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You do talk some crap sometimes.

I'm not going to let my Persian cat out unless its under supervision, it would get matted, full of debris, and someone may even half-inch it.
 
We live on the second floor and have two cats, my girlfriend made a mesh fence to put over the main window so we can open it fully in our lounge (out of chicken wire....).

It works fine, cats love it because they get a nice breeze on their cat climbing frame and we keep cool.

Downside? It looks like I'm living in Nazi bloody Germany :(
 
[TW]Fox;16822537 said:
I wish I knew why people insisted on keeping animals they don't really have the circumstances for simply because they find them cute. It's very selfish. Cats need to be let out.
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I've always had house cats. Three when I was growing up at my mum's, moved in with my Dad at 14 and then we got a house cat. Now I have my own family I have two cats.

When we got the cat at Dad's, we had to go through an application process with the RSPCA. What qualified us for the cat was that we said we'd be keeping it indoors :)
 
coltpython3 said:
this isnt fair to the cat!!! i dont understand why people who live in flats get cats and dogs. such pets need outdoor space.
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Jesus christ, if the RSPCA think it's ok, then what do you know?

I bet you don't even own an animal.
 
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