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Putting an "inside" car outside
2006-07-07 15:10:39
I have 3 cats. One of them is a 28 pound cat that I found when he was just
a few weeks old. That was in August 2000. Recently, he has started peeing and pooping in places other than the litter box. The vet says there is nothing medically wrong with him. My wife always hated the cat and was always pissed at me for keeping him and not letting someone else take him. This latest peeing and pooping adventure was the last straw for her and he put her food down! We have a 14 month old and she (and I) don't want out son crawling and walking around the house through cat piss and crap, so she gave me three options: 1. Bring the cat to the vet and put him down, which I am not going to do. 2. Give the cat away. That's no good, no one wants a fat cat that pisses and carps in the house. 3. Put him outside. That is the option I took. I have a big dog house out in the back years, and a fully fenced years (six foot) which the cat is to fat to jump over. He had been hanging out in the dog house for the most part. I know many of you will say I am cruel for putting him out, but I wanted to know if anyone has ever done the same? How did the cat take to outdoor life? Any comments about making an indoor car and outdoor car would be appreciated.
2006-07-07 15:58:11
He might do well in an indoor home where he is the only cat. Do you know
someone who might take him and provide him with a good home? Also, for 3 indoor cats you need 4 litter boxes. They should have no scent scoopable litter and no hoods on them. Do you have this in your home? Gail "123456789" <1@2.com> wrote in message news:PPurg.268$ZD.108@trndny02... >I have 3 cats. One of them is a 28 pound cat that I found when he was just >a few weeks old. That was in August 2000. > > Recently, he has started peeing and pooping in places other than the > litter box. The vet says there is nothing medically wrong with him. My > wife always hated the cat and was always pissed at me for keeping him and > not letting someone else take him. This latest peeing and pooping > adventure was the last straw for her and he put her food down! We have a > 14 month old and she (and I) don't want out son crawling and walking > around the house through cat piss and crap, so she gave me three options: > > 1. Bring the cat to the vet and put him down, which I am not going to do. > > 2. Give the cat away. That's no good, no one wants a fat cat that pisses > and carps in the house. > > 3. Put him outside. That is the option I took. > > I have a big dog house out in the back years, and a fully fenced years > (six foot) which the cat is to fat to jump over. He had been hanging out > in the dog house for the most part. > > I know many of you will say I am cruel for putting him out, but I wanted > to know if anyone has ever done the same? How did the cat take to outdoor > life? > > Any comments about making an indoor car and outdoor car would be > appreciated.
2006-07-07 16:15:58
I have had these three cats for over six years and they have done just fine
with 2 litter boxes with no hoods, so I don't think that is the issue. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone that would be willing to take hi in. "Gail" news:nwvrg.4483$ye3.647@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net... > He might do well in an indoor home where he is the only cat. Do you know > someone who might take him and provide him with a good home? Also, for 3 > indoor cats you need 4 litter boxes. They should have no scent scoopable > litter and no hoods on them. Do you have this in your home? > Gail > "123456789" <1@2.com> wrote in message news:PPurg.268$ZD.108@trndny02... >>I have 3 cats. One of them is a 28 pound cat that I found when he was >>just a few weeks old. That was in August 2000. >> >> Recently, he has started peeing and pooping in places other than the >> litter box. The vet says there is nothing medically wrong with him. My >> wife always hated the cat and was always pissed at me for keeping him and >> not letting someone else take him. This latest peeing and pooping >> adventure was the last straw for her and he put her food down! We have a >> 14 month old and she (and I) don't want out son crawling and walking >> around the house through cat piss and crap, so she gave me three options: >> >> 1. Bring the cat to the vet and put him down, which I am not going to do. >> >> 2. Give the cat away. That's no good, no one wants a fat cat that pisses >> and carps in the house. >> >> 3. Put him outside. That is the option I took. >> >> I have a big dog house out in the back years, and a fully fenced years >> (six foot) which the cat is to fat to jump over. He had been hanging out >> in the dog house for the most part. >> >> I know many of you will say I am cruel for putting him out, but I wanted >> to know if anyone has ever done the same? How did the cat take to >> outdoor life? >> >> Any comments about making an indoor car and outdoor car would be >> appreciated. > >
2006-07-07 09:36:31
123456789 wrote: > I have had these three cats for over six years and they have done just fine > with 2 litter boxes with no hoods, so I don't think that is the issue. > Unfortunately, I don't know anyone that would be willing to take hi in. I had three cats for several years who did fine on two litterboxes. One day a tomcat started hanging around my house, consequently one of my own cats started marking, primarily urinating. I cleaned the spots where he urinated thoroughly, put out two more boxes in a different room and made sure to pay a lot of attention to him. His behavior stopped within about two weeks. After a week months, I managed to trap the tomcat and get him neutered. He consequently was never seen at my house any more (he is still hanging around the neighborhood). Once he disappeared, I reverted back to two boxes and things are fine. I was lucky in so far as the trigger for the behavior was easy to define. I wouldn't recommend keeping your cat outside after he's been indoor only for six years. He's not used to it and it's just not fair to deprive him of the companionship and attention. Try adding litterboxes in another area of the house (the other cats may pick on him and prevent him going to the current boxes), and/or try to find him a new home as a single cat. You may want to keep him in a room on his own overnight to reduce the stress on everyone in the home until you can find him a home (or until he curbs his behavior!). If he is very overweight, his obesity may actually be part of the problem. Separating him at night will make it easier to put him on a diet if he only has access to his food overnight.
2006-07-07 17:12:03
news:1152290191.017958.48200@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com... > > 123456789 wrote: > >> I have had these three cats for over six years and they have done just >> fine >> with 2 litter boxes with no hoods, so I don't think that is the issue. >> Unfortunately, I don't know anyone that would be willing to take hi in. > > I had three cats for several years who did fine on two litterboxes. One > day a tomcat started hanging around my house, consequently one of my > own cats started marking, primarily urinating. > After a week months, I managed to trap > the tomcat and get him neutered. He consequently was never seen at my > house any more (he is still hanging around the neighborhood). Just putting out a feeler on this subject and similar soultions to problem animals...... When I lived in Florida, a dog in the neighborhood was quite a pain in the ass with its incessant barking over nothing. The dog was left outside for about 18 hours a day and sometimes for a few days at a time. It disappeared one day. A few days later it showed up back on the chain in its own yard. There was a small shaved spot on its throat. Someone had taken the dog to a vet and had its vocal cords clipped - surgical debarking. Since this was on the other side of the block from me, I'm not fully informed about how much opportunity the offended neighbors gave the owner of the dog to correct the situation. Question - do the majority of people here feel it permissable to subject a nuisance animal that does not belong to them to surgical remedy strictly for their own convenience? I do make the distinction between a cat being neutered to stop unwanted behavior and the more unconventional approach to dealing with a barking dog - again to stop unwanted behavior. How far is going too far? Although the disruption of the barking dog was minimal to me, I honestly have to say that I didn't miss hearing it bark.
2006-07-07 17:50:12
"123456789" <1@2.com> wrote in message news:PPurg.268$ZD.108@trndny02... > Any comments about making an indoor car and outdoor car would be > appreciated. This sounds like a troll. I wouldn't respond.
2006-07-08 00:46:05
He spent the day outside with no problem today. He even seemed to enjoy it,
running all over the yard and then hanging out in the dog house. "He's not used to it and it's just not fair to deprive him of the companionship and attention" As for that, Squikie was always the most unaffectionate cat I have ever seen. I would never come and sit with us, never liked to be pet and never was all that friendly. Maybe my wife was right when she told me that he was always meant to be an outside cat. news:1152290191.017958.48200@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com... > > 123456789 wrote: > >> I have had these three cats for over six years and they have done just >> fine >> with 2 litter boxes with no hoods, so I don't think that is the issue. >> Unfortunately, I don't know anyone that would be willing to take hi in. > > I had three cats for several years who did fine on two litterboxes. One > day a tomcat started hanging around my house, consequently one of my > own cats started marking, primarily urinating. I cleaned the spots > where he urinated thoroughly, put out two more boxes in a different > room and made sure to pay a lot of attention to him. His behavior > stopped within about two weeks. After a week months, I managed to trap > the tomcat and get him neutered. He consequently was never seen at my > house any more (he is still hanging around the neighborhood). Once he > disappeared, I reverted back to two boxes and things are fine. I was > lucky in so far as the trigger for the behavior was easy to define. > > I wouldn't recommend keeping your cat outside after he's been indoor > only for six years. He's not used to it and it's just not fair to > deprive him of the companionship and attention. Try adding litterboxes > in another area of the house (the other cats may pick on him and > prevent him going to the current boxes), and/or try to find him a new > home as a single cat. You may want to keep him in a room on his own > overnight to reduce the stress on everyone in the home until you can > find him a home (or until he curbs his behavior!). If he is very > overweight, his obesity may actually be part of the problem. Separating > him at night will make it easier to put him on a diet if he only has > access to his food overnight. >
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