I know it’s better for your cat for it to be an indoor cat but if I even want a sliver of a chance at one at all she’s going to have to be an outdoors cat any advice tumblr?
If you can only have a cat if they are an outdoor cat you are not ready to have a cat. I know the idea of having a cat is exciting, but it simply isn’t fair to the animal to take them only to be incapable of adequately providing for them.
An owned cat that is allowed to free-roam lives 2 – 3 years less, on average, than a cat who does not. It is not fair to cut years from this animals live because “I want him,” especially when the reason for this lifespan disparity is often… gruesome.
I have wanted ferrets for years, for examples, but these are social animals that need daily interaction – I am away from home 3 – 4 days a week, it would not be fair for me to get ferrets and leave them unattended for that period of time so I’m waiting until I have my own place so I’m not bouncing from home-to-home.
It’s frustrating not being able to have a pet you desire, but the responsible thing to do is abstain from getting them until you are prepared. If I got ferrets now it would not be fair to them, if you got a cat now it would not be fair to the cat.
I also got this response from @starstripesnip who’s theme is not letting me reblog with a response. It would be far, far better to not have a cat at all than to own a cat whose safety you’ll be neglecting and putting at risk. Until you can own a cat responsibly (aka, indoors), don’t get a cat.
Wow there went my good mood thank you tumblr
Yah, there are dangers to having an outdoor cat. And I am aware of those dangers and I’m doing absolutely everything in my power to minimize those dangers and what I don’t have the power to do I’m bringing to my mom.
She’s getting an enclosure. She’ll be in the garage at night. If I can convince my mom, she’ll be inside with us when we’re home. She’s going to be taken care of in every way I can give her.
And honestly the only reason my mom is agreeing to let me get a cat is because I might have depression and/or anxiety and am in a pretty bad place right now and she thinks a cat will help me feel better. And she will. So, honestly, please, leave me alone.
There isn’t anything you can do to completely minimize the dangers of having an outdoor cat – you’re taking a cat, whom I’m sure you’ll love, and putting his/her life at risk. You’re knowingly taking years off of his/her lifespan and putting your local wildlife at risk. That’s not cool to do, and I understand having a cat may be an exciting concept, but it is NOT worth it if it’s at the cat’s expense. Think of the potential cat. Think about his/her life. I know you think having a cat will help you, but think about who’s getting the short end of that stick.
Is it really worth it to have a cat if the decisions you make regarding it’s care and it’s life will most likely end up killing it?
Literally just go away. I know there isn’t anything i can do to COMPLETELY erase the danger, but I’m minimizing as best i can!! And it is possible for outdoor cats to live long healthy lives if they’re taken care of (which she will be mind you). She’ll be taken care of in a way that won’t hurt the wild life around us!! I AM thinking of the potential cat and I’m doing EVERYTHING for her but I’m also thinking about ME and MY health which, no way, could get better with a cat!!
This post was no for you. This post was not for people who reblogged it with “you cant get a cat if it wont be indoors”!! This post was me saying “okay the situation is less than desirable but what can i do with what I have”. This post was made knowing the outside was dangerous and I wanted to know how to help.
just leave me alone I am upset and tired and crying just get off my post it was not for you
It was only for people who enable your reckless endangerment of your pet – right. Only for people who agree with you. What a tumblr-esque mentality.
Idk, if it were me, not knowing if my cat was trying to drag his half mangled body home after being run over by a car would make my anxiety a hell of a lot worse. There are statistics – scientific, researched statistics – that show how much earlier outdoor cats die, and how they’re much more likely to die horrendous deaths (and this is coming from a vet tech who has WATCHED cats die these deaths). This isn’t opinion. This is fact.
You know what would be desirable, and the more humane solution?
Not getting a cat until you can provide it with a good, safe life.
Look I understand you’re trying to keep my cat safe but the way you are trying to achieve it feels really patronizing and honestly I have asked several times for you to go away, nicely at first too, because this post wasn’t for people to freaking criticize me endlessly it was for people to help me!! I’m not setting her free to roam on a mystical journey by herself I am trying ti set up a place for her to live comfortably.
I’ve tried to explain myself several times but at this point I cant even see the words I’m typing anymore so I’m jsut going to ask one last time for you to LEAVE ME ALONE and jsut let me have this one thing. I am about to loose every method I have to cope with my feelings, everything familiar, so when my mom offers me a chance for something I’ve wanted and thought about in detail for years I am going to freaking take it. At this point, this cat is all i will have.
SHE IS GOING TO BE TAKEN CARE OF. YOU CAN BE GODDAMN SURE OF THAT. I HAVE RESEARCHED MY ASS OFF TODAY LOOKING FOR WAYS TO KEEP HER SAFE AND HAPPY AND IVE BEEN HAPPY DOING IT THEN YOU COME ALONG AND NOT ONLY SHATTER MY FRAGILE HOPE AND SELF ESTEEM, BUT YOUVE MADE ME CRY AT LEAST THREE OR FOUR TIMES.
My cat is going to be taken care of. I’m going to take care of her. And she’s going to take care of me.
Congrats for making a fourteen year old cry and acheiving literally nothing else
Telling you to wait until you can responsibly own a cat IS helping. The world is not an echo chamber. Everyone is not going to spit back at you that your ideas are good, and what you’re doing is okay – especially when what you’re doing is putting a cat on a short road to an awful end.
I get it – you’re 14, you still have the very much overdramatized, self centric teenage viewpoint of the world. You still think it’s about you. It doesn’t matter if the cat is all you’ll have when the mere fact of you having her is putting her life at stake. That is not okay. That is not humane. And guess what? If you don’t get the cat, your life will go on, but if you do get her, hers probably won’t.
A cat that is kept outdoors cannot be properly cared for. It is not possible, no matter how much research you do.
A stranger on the internet did not shatter the entirety of your self esteem, pick yourself up off the floor and move on with your life. And wait until your life is in better shape to get a pet – nobody should get animals when their lives are in shambles, as you’re so adamant that yours is – and wait until you can actually take care of the pet and give it a good life. In the meantime, get a fish. Or a hamster. Or a lizard. Sometime that can be better kept in an enclosure and is a bit more reasonable to provide good husbandry for.
If you think getting a pet is going to put your broken pieces back together you are sorely, sorely mistaken and you are in for a very rude awakening. A cat isn’t going to take care of you. A cat isn’t going to fix you. A cat IS, however, going to rely on you to take care of her, and if you choose to get her even though she will be kept outside, you. are. letting. her. down.
And an addition – if you don’t have the emotional stability to deal with someone calling out your bad husbandry plans, you have NO BUSINESS owning an animal as you are not mature or stable enough to be the caregiver they deserve.
“A stranger on the internet did not shatter the entirety of your self esteem” lol you have severely overestimated me.
Doubly ridiculous since cats often don’t get adopted and literally get put down. Taking in a cat into a loving capable family is always the best choice, even if they can’t keep them perfectly that’s still years of life the cat gets that they might not get otherwise (even if you adopt from a no kill shelter, it means the shelter can now take in more cats. either way, rose is SAVING A CATS LIFE.NOT ENDING IT)
A Middleground 