Cats really roam -- check them out w/ GPS

[Reverend Conehead]

If you have cats that you let roam and think they don't wander too far from home, think again. The attached GPS monitors to people's cats to track their movement. Here's an example:

That cat gets around. Here's the article that shows some more examples:

http://www.boredpanda.com/gps-track...ebook&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=BPFacebook

 

[punchnjudy]

Huh.

No wonder my indoor cat is so fat. She just goes from the sofa to the food bowl.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

Wow!

Our cats aren't allowed outside. Can't see letting a cat run loose like that.

 

[Dallas_Cowboys50]

Wow!

Our cats aren't allowed outside. Can't see letting a cat run loose like that.

same here, we put ours on a leash when we go sit outside on a nice day, but thats about it.....

 

[MichaelWinicki]

same here, we put ours on a leash when we go sit outside on a nice day, but thats about it.....

Seen too many of them mashed on the road.

Over in the UK right now there's some nut taking pet cats that allowed to go outside and butchering them.

 

[pupulehaole]

Wow!

Our cats aren't allowed outside. Can't see letting a cat run loose like that.

I cant see confining a cat inside its whole life... what a life.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

I cant see confining a cat inside its whole life... what a life.

My cat is restricted to indoors. She does fine. I work from home and am here to keep her company and play with her a lot. If I had some job where I was away a lot of the time, I would get another cat to be her companion. The American Humane Association recommends keeping cats indoors. Here's their take on it:
http://www.americanhumane.org/anima...for-your-pet/indoor-cats-vs-outdoor-cats.html
My sister's cat got killed by an eagle. I'm not willing to risk my cat's life to dangers like that and cars, dogs, cruel people, poisons, etc. It's tough because I do get that she might enjoy exploring around.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Seen too many of them mashed on the road.

Over in the UK right now there's some nut taking pet cats that allowed to go outside and butchering them.

I actually knew some kids like that in grade school who did crap like that to cats, possums, dogs, frogs, God knows what else. It's so foreign to my way of thinking I can't imagine what would possess someone to do that.

 

[pupulehaole]

My cat is restricted to indoors. She does fine. I work from home and am here to keep her company and play with her a lot. If I had some job where I was away a lot of the time, I would get another cat to be her companion. The American Humane Association recommends keeping cats indoors. Here's their take on it:
http://www.americanhumane.org/anima...for-your-pet/indoor-cats-vs-outdoor-cats.html
My sister's cat got killed by an eagle. I'm not willing to risk my cat's life to dangers like that and cars, dogs, cruel people, poisons, etc. It's tough because I do get that she might enjoy exploring around.

Yah its a bit safer here in Hawaii for cats I think. Always going to be dangers though.

 

[daschoo]

Depends on your circumstances. We got our cat when we lived in a 5th floor flat in Edinburgh so he was a housecat. We now live in a house in a small fishing village so he gets out. Not sure it would have worked the other way right enough.

 

[JDSmith]

I have an inside cat and an outside cat. Buddy, the outside cat, was just a stray my wife started feeding so I built him a house and he lives outside. He even gets an electric blanket (OK, it's a heating pad under a towel) during the winter. But I really can't see him wandering too far, unless he's going out in the early morning hours after midnight. He's always around to greet us when we go outside and it's extremely rare for him to not come over immediately. I know he's not much of a hunter anymore, we've got squirrels we hand feed and they come right up for nuts when Buddy is laying only inches away - he doesn't even look, much less stalk them.

 

[MichaelWinicki]

I cant see confining a cat inside its whole life... what a life.

14 square meals a day... One comfy bed of their own, taking over my comfy bed whenever they feel like it, a 1/2 dozen other places in the house they like to sleep that are perfectly safe... A box full of toys a child would envy... Human attention whenever they want it... Never having to worry about a predator killing them for food, a car running them over or a thoughtless human abusing them.



Yeah, what a life.

 

[JoeKing]

 

[YosemiteSam]

There was this kid named Devlin that lived near me as a kid. A bunch of animals were found burned in trashcans. They finally figured out he was doing it. He was torturing the animals, then burning their bodies once they were dead.

They took him away. I bet he ended up in prison or locked away in a nut house.

 

[JIMMYBUFFETT]

I cant see confining a cat inside its whole life... what a life.

Yeah, I've had both and my indoor/outdoor cats are happier. I had an inside cat for 13 years and kept her inside because we were living in apartments, duplexes, and neighborhoods with lots of traffic. After she passed we rescued two brother kittens. We now live outside of town in a small housing development with 1 acre lots on a river that backs up against a pecan orchard. We've got a doggy door for our two labs and both cats who are now 5 use the door as well. They have about the greatest life imaginable and spend their nights hunting along the river and orchard while their days are spent in the middle of our bed and they can come and go as they please. You run a risk letting your cats out for sure, but it's one I'm willing to take because of how happy they are.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Cats do their own thing. 15 years ago, when we moved into, what was then, our new house, we got two cats. One was an indoor cat with papers. That was my Wife's cat. That cat wanted out all the time. One was a stray that we adopted who had been out on the Mesa for a good long time. That cat wanted no part of going outside. Had lived outside for too long I guess. After a few years, the Wife started letting her cat go outside and one day, cat just didn't come home. The stray was content to live inside and he lasted 14 years with us. When we moved into the house we live in now (last year), that cat just would not get right with this house. We kept it inside but it always wanted out. Eventually it got out and I think it probably went back to the old house, which is only a few miles from our current house. Either that or it's dead. Either way, cats do their own thing. Just the way they are.

 

[pupulehaole]

14 square meals a day... One comfy bed of their own, taking over my comfy bed whenever they feel like it, a 1/2 dozen other places in the house they like to sleep that are perfectly safe... A box full of toys a child would envy... Human attention whenever they want it... Never having to worry about a predator killing them for food, a car running them over or a thoughtless human abusing them.



Yeah, what a life.

El oh el

 

[Denim Chicken]

I cant see confining a cat inside its whole life... what a life.

Depends on the cat. I tried to make my cat an inside cat, but he was born with the outside fever--meowing at the door all day, making a mad dash every time it opened. He was not going to be happy indoors.

My mother's cat, however, didn't want anything to do with the outside. Put her out there and she would run back in. Fat and happy laying on the couch all day.

 

[rynochop]

I have a hard time believing the one that's illustrated in the thread..some of the others in the link I could see. A house cat going a few miles away up a mountain, then crossing to another then thru a football field, I think someone got a little creative with this

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

I have a hard time believing the one that's illustrated in the thread..some of the others in the link I could see. A house cat going a few miles away up a mountain, then crossing to another then thru a football field, I think someone got a little creative with this

agreed......that cat certainly understands the concept that the quickest route between two points is a straight line! And nice to see he/she decided to swing by the stadium on the way home to catch a little local sports!