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cat outdoors...

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binker · 27/05/2007 17:16

my neighbours cat is currently living outdoors as they're away and there is no cat door - is this right ?

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Imawurzel · 27/05/2007 17:16

ah, thats mean. (to meas i'm a cat lover)
Is there food or anything down?

MrsSpoon · 27/05/2007 17:17

Is someone visiting to feed it? Our cat wouldn't come into the house after we moved here, despite us cutting a catflap in the door, she was perfectly happy living outside, if we went on holiday we used to ask a friend to come and put food out for her.

thelittleElf · 27/05/2007 17:18

Oh heck! Have you checked if there is any shelter for the poor thing?

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binker · 27/05/2007 17:19

I'm feeding her - putting her food out in a bowl by back door - I just worry about her in the rain.I guess she's used to it, but I can't help but worry.

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binker · 27/05/2007 17:21

...I meant to say,they,the neighbours,asked me to feed her - I've washed out the bowl and put new water in but I'm not sure about shelter -they just seem to be very casual about it .

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thelittleElf · 27/05/2007 17:22

Are you feeding her from your house or theirs. I was wondering if she had access to a shed or something. I hate the idea of a little cat out in the cold all night

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binker · 27/05/2007 17:25

theirs - it's possible she might go to another house as she is quite resourceful from what I can see !

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thelittleElf · 27/05/2007 17:31

Oh goodness, i couldn't imagine going away and leaving the cat outside for the week . I'm sure they know their own cat, but i just couldn't do it.

MrsSpoon · 27/05/2007 17:33

Ah, although if it makes you worry less our cat also refused to use the shelter we provided for her, preferring to sleep under bushes etc. She had always been a lovely cat, would sit on your knee purring for hours but two DSs and two house moves later I think she'd had enough, she was eventually killed on the road.

whomovedmychocolate · 27/05/2007 17:35

Cats rarely get wet TBH, they have ways of finding shelter. Mine have, when shut out by mistake:

(1) Broken into the shed
(2) Slept under a motorbike and it's cover
(3) Climbed through next door's bedroom windows and given the owner a scare by shooting past at high speed (they did take a contribution to food though - in the shape of a dead mouse!)

But if you are worried, why not fit them a catflap while they are gone, they'll never work out what's happened and it'll be so funny to film their reaction when they get home.

ProfYaffle · 27/05/2007 17:35

Our cats live outside most of the time, they were banished after pooing everywhere. One has a 'kennel' type thing to live in, the other has a 2nd home she visits. We do let them into the hallway most days and when the weather's bad though. Can't imagine just chucking them out with nothing.

PinkTulips · 27/05/2007 17:38

my cat used to be a stray and won't go in a cat box so we can't bring him when we're going away. he doesn't trust strangers, is terrified of them.

when we go away we just leave food outside for him and come back after no more than 4 days and he;s fine.

we simply have no other option with this cat. the last time we went we got the girls in one of the other flats to leave out food for him but he didn't really eat it.

like i said though he was a stray in the area that we spent months domesticating and it's only partly taken IYKWIM

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