Collar Cams Reveal Your Cat's Dirty Secrets

[SnakeoilSage]

We already knew cats were dicks. Now when you say "risky" behavior, it just seems to be that this is "normal" behavior for an animal that is exploring its environment. It would be doing the same thing in the wilderness; going down holes and underbrush, drinking from puddles of water, etc.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

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I live in Britain where wild cats are native so I don't think a few domestic cats are going to cause total devastation.

Man made cats (selectively bread, designed and created by us) are not the same as wild cats. For example, there's many diseases and illnesses that occur not in "real" cats, but these man-made tamperings with nature. We want cats without hair, so we bread bald felines prone to horrible skin conditions. We want dogs with cute faces, so we bread dogs with small heads that suffer premature death an order of magnitude more often than their natural cousins. Etc., etc.

You introduce an organism to an environment it doesn't belong and you upset a very long, very old and very important chain.

They aren't that far from wild cats tbh esepcially the British tabby and not all cats hunt especially if you get them neutered. My persian cat Cinder doesn't know her butt from her elbow when it comes to hunting.

I don't think it's right to keep cats cooped up in the house. Unless they are a breed which doesn't have much common sense.

I agree with you about the selective breeding and I don't like it. Cinder was a stray which we rescued (She had probably been abandoned because of the amount of hot in her fur) and the rest of my cats are mutts.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

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NEVAR.



I do love my cats though. They are my most precious friends. A cat that I had owned for 16 years died last week of old age and I'm still pretty devastated.

Spoiler: Some of my cats

 

[Nimzabaat]

So that's our tax dollars at work...

Whenever I read about things like this, pointless information gathering and surveys that tell people things we already know, I really want to stop paying taxes. Seriously, how do these guys get money for things like this? I want a grant so that I can prove that "moisture is the essence of wetness", gimme 4 billion dollars.

*Sigh*

Captcha: Describe Myspace using any words, My choice "obsolete". Accepted.

 

[Imp_Emissary]

And people say cats don't care about their owners. On topic, one of our 2 cats brought us a live and unharmed baby rabbit. Then she went off to take a nap.

I had a male cat that brought home one by one a whole litter of kittens. I don't know why he did this but he certainly had the intention of passing the responsibility of caring for them onto my family. Not knowing where the kittens coming from and asking anyone in the neighborhood if they had pregnant cat to no avail we tried our best to care for them even getting the special formula and everything to feed them. Giving them a warm and safe place. But one by one they all perished despite our best efforts. Perhaps they were abandoned by the mother, maybe our cat literally stole them. He would check up on them daily too so I don't think he had any ill intent and actually cared for them.

Also before anyone criticizes me for not bringing the kittens to a shelter as they perhaps may have increased their chances of survival even after I explained the entire situation they wanted a sizable amount of money for each kitten for them to take them. I never knew it cost to give them to shelters. I'm not much of a animal lover but I couldn't just let the kittens die and I tried my best and I tell ya it was depressing to see those kittens pass away one by one even more so when there was just one left I couldn't help but root for the little sucker but he passed on too 3 days after the 2nd to last did.

Aw. That must have been terrible. I wonder why they all died? We got our two cats when I was 2 and they were 2. Tommyboy and Pumpkin. Tom is gone now, was 17, and his sister Pumpkin is still with us at 20. Before we got them Tom was in two car accidents, and once with us he got injured with a hole in his side a little smaller than my hand. We took him to the vet and he said that we could just let him be and the hole will just close. We had him sown up anyway, but then the stitches came undone so we just let him heal normally. Also, as a side note, the record cat life is 32 years.

My point is that there is a reason they say cats have nine lives. If the kittens didn't seem to have any injuries, I don't think you could have helped them more than you did, but I know that probably doesn't help. At least thanks to your cat they died with you all caring for them.

 

[Formica Archonis]

eating and drinking things they found (25%),

What? Where did they find gourmet cat food and crystal plates in the wild? Surely this most refined and picky of creatures is incapable of acting like a base animal?

COMMERCIALS HAVE LIED TO ME!

 

[omega 616]

I wish people wouldn't let their cats outside. I love both my cats, but felines are a destructive creature that preys on native wildlife in areas they are foreign to.

Welcome to nature, shockingly enough animals kill ... even in areas they aren't foreign to. Punishing a cat by keeping it in doors for doing what a cat does is very harsh!

I would suggest you stop imposing your morals on a cat, it just mean to keep cats locked up.

Feral animals cause untold destruction, kill native life and ruin ecosystems that've been in place for thousands of years. Implanted species are also one of the major contributors to unnatural extinction.

Life is a very complex web, made up of countless food chains. When humans interfere and move pieces of the puzzle to places they don't belong, the consequences can be horrendous.

Oh, I know. I read a story about this very thing.

The thing is your cats will do a very tiny amount of damage to the eco system in your area, it's not like they will single handedly wipe out an entire race of mouse/cockroach. If anything it would probably help to stop ... well this extreme example, just listen to how fast they can breed.

 

[blackrave]

Your hypothesis falls apart when you realize that cat lovers don't have cysts in their hippocampus (fear part of brain). All those mice that Toxoplaxma gondii infect have cysts in that part of the brain, and an affinity for the smell of cats.

'Course, I don't know if your kidding or not.

I'm mostly kidding (but only mostly)
While I admit that not all cat lovers are affected there sure are numbers of those who are
Main problem is finding those infected ones

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

Your hypothesis falls apart when you realize that cat lovers don't have cysts in their hippocampus (fear part of brain). All those mice that Toxoplaxma gondii infect have cysts in that part of the brain, and an affinity for the smell of cats.

'Course, I don't know if your kidding or not.

I'm mostly kidding (but only mostly)
While I admit that not all cat lovers are affected there sure are numbers of those who are
Main problem is finding those infected ones

They probably like to sniff cats a lot. That means very few.

Besides, it's only spread through exessive contact (actual touching) of cat poop, and infection is never 100% likely.

 

[ace_of_something]

I don't understand people who live in suburban subdivisions and have cats as outdoor pets. They become a huge pain in the ass for all your neighbors. Annoying their pets, shitting on their property hanging out in the street/sleeping under people's cars making us worry about hitting/hurting them. Maybe it's because I grew up on a farm and outdoor cats were working animals and indoor cats were pets. The two did not coincide much.

That being said I have three kitties that are inside cats because I live in a rural area and I'd prefer my cats not be eaten by coyotes.

 

[immortalfrieza]

why people should keep heir cats indoors period, its way healtier for them than letting them run around, ticks worms can make your pet ill, cost you money, and all the other pitfalls of having a cat that goes out kills comes home with god knows what in its gullet.

Exactly. People still let their cats outdoors when it's painfully obvious that they shouldn't, as a result cats the world over keep catching diseases they wouldn't have gotten otherwise and keep getting hurt and killed both accidentally and deliberately time and time again.

Good, the law of nature is weak die and the strong survive, this is just as true today as it's always been. If a species can't avoid extinction, it doesn't deserve to exist, this applies to any and all species.

Isn't it good, in your eyes, that those cats get sick and die? "The weak die and the strong survive." Or does your morality only extend so far as to affect you alone?

No, because as the majority of the cat species is not affected by these deaths. The purpose of weeding out the weak and retaining the strong is to improve the species as a whole, and since these deaths are not happening on a widespread scale to the entire species, it doesn't benefit them. It's just death because a few humans decided to be really stupid, it doesn't have any real point.

 

[immortalfrieza]

I wish people wouldn't let their cats outside. I love both my cats, but felines are a destructive creature that preys on native wildlife in areas they are foreign to.

We sure don't miss the mice, frogs and moles. If anything they're, next to buzzards and maybe the odd owl, the only natural predators around here. With us chasing the foxes and stuff far far away.

It's not possible to have a cat that isn't stupidly curious or a killer, my cat once maimed a spiders legs all except one and left it crawling about slowly on the floor.

What our youngest does with frogs is...truly frightening. Who thought frogs could scream like that... *shudder*

We fuck the natural environment, bring in feral pests that ruin thousands of years of evolution and mess up fragile ecosystems. We do it again and again. A great example: the Kiwi bird in New Zealand. It lost the ability to fly thousands of years ago, because there were no predators on the island. It doesn't even run when confronted by aggresive animals; it just sits there. What happened? Pets. Dogs and cats have reduced a native, flourishing species to the brink of extinction.

Australia had a problem with native bugs. Brought in the cane toad. Cane toads have fucked the environment so much, they now hold "kill cane toad events" wherein people go around killing and bagging thousands of them for prizes. They breed like wildfire and have utterly devastated countless species.

Good, the law of nature is weak die and the strong survive, this is just as true today as it's always been. If a species can't avoid extinction, it doesn't deserve to exist, this applies to any and all species. I would say the same if we humans were the ones facing extinction right now. We humans are the dominant species on Earth, the natural environment is ours to do with as we wish, because we've earned it, and the same goes for our pets.

That kind of ignorance is why the planet has never been in worse shape. It's survived three ice ages, the reversal of the poles and five mass extinctions, yet we are still the most destructive thing to happen to it.

I take comfort in knowing what to expect in the next life. Those that aren't so lucky, the ignorant and the destructive, have only a slowly dying cesspit to look forward to. Dreadfully sad.

But there's time yet. You could change.

That kind of ignorance is the very reason why we humans are on top of the food chain. We are very good at destroying everything else before it destroys us. Besides, we will eventually develop means to ensure that we can do whatever we want to the environment and it wouldn't matter anyway, so the point is moot.