Is it cruel to keep cats?

Cats haven't evolved at all, they just tricked humans into looking after the lazy little gits.

I wouldn't trade my stipe little mousekiller for all the dogs on the planet.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Oh he's being serious. Theres always someone who trots out this argument. The sheer amount of ailurophobia never ceases to amaze.
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both will eat their owners body but supposedly a Dog will usually wait a few days whereas a cat will tuck in much sooner:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/cats-facts-jerks_n_4520552

In 1992, at an American Academy of Forensic Sciences conference in New Orleans, a forensic pathologist told a haunting story: He explained that when people who live alone with their pets die unexpectedly, their bodies are sometimes left in the house for several days. Without their owners around to fill their bowls, the pets often go unfed. In cases where these people owned dogs, their pets would usually go several days without resorting to eating the owner's body. However, a cat would only wait a day or two. The phenomenon is called "postmortem predation."
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Not cruel at all.

Cats are lazy fookers, asleep for 16 hours a day, they like being indoors or they wouldn't sleep under your duvet, scratch your leather recliner
and jump up on the back of your chair and frighten the crap out of you.

No, it's cruel to keep a dog indoors for 23 hours a day, I see a few of my neighbours [ mostly single women strangely ] who obviously
love the company of a dog but do little to entertain or exercise their young vibrant pooches, dogs love human company but they also love being outdoors, in the rain,
in the snow, in the water.
 
Three indoor cats here.

We have walled back garden and they could escape if they wanted but dont.

They have a converted loft to sleep in and get full run of the house most of the time.

If any of them cry and it’s not through hunger then they get let out of the loft if they’ve gone in to sleep.

They seem very happy to me most of the time.
 
McGraw said:
Three indoor cats here.

We have walled back garden and they could escape if they wanted but dont.

They have a converted loft to sleep in and get full run of the house most of the time.

If any of them cry and it’s not through hunger then they get let out of the loft if they’ve gone in to sleep.

They seem very happy to me most of the time.
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You should put in a cat tunnel from the main house up to the loft.

Actually, how do they get up to the loft in the first place??
 
Grew up with pet cats. Not a fan of the things, though - the ones we had were all pretty crap. Have been steadfastly refusing cats (and dogs) as family pets now I'm married with kids: there is absolutely no emptiness in my life that needs filling with a pet.

FoxEye said:
About cats being solitary... it's just not true. See farm cats, for example, who live in extended family groups and even help raise each other's young.

Cats raised on their own can/might become solitary. Cats raised in a multi-cat situation can become very social. They aren't "pack animals" as they hunt on their own. Believe lions are the only felines that hunt as a pack.

There have been a lot of good studies on cat behaviour, but it seems most people would just prefer to stick to believing the common misconceptions.
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Sounds a bit like keeping cats ***** with their heads.

Is that...... cruelty?
 
If cats are handled from a young age they are amazing companions. If they don't get handled or interact much with humans, they can go various levels of feral, which means they won't be good pets as they don't want to be near humans. Keeping cats is a non issue and has been done for centuries. I want another cat but the wife says no, one is enough.
 
Those that dislike cats for their apparent aloofness and disregard for their owners ought realise that these are qualities cat-owners might accept and even, like me, respect in them. It's real, they're not brown-nosing and overly dependent pain in the bottoms. I would have had a dog too but don't have the time for one. Cats don't give a **** and that's great, it's a reminder that I should also not give one more often!
 
Both my current and previous cat literally moved their-selves in, they know what they're doing :p.

The first one we found sleeping in a shed outside. We'd seen it hanging around the garden eating carrots etc out the garden so started feeding because it was starving it and eventually coaxed it into the house. Then a couple of years later I found another cat sleeping in the other shed, started feeding it and it just moved in too.
 
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