He also picks fights with neighbour cats and dogs and loses every time, costing me a fortune in vet bills. I love him.

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      Outdoor cats decimate bird populations. Letting your cat out is terrible for your local ecosystem. Seeing this stuff really frustrates me.

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      Yeah, no. That’s not a thing where I live. It happened 5 years after he was neutered and came with other scratches and bite marks as well.

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    Our cat brought a live bat into the house once and then just let it go. The dogs were all over it, but thankfully didn’t kill or injure it. I let it crawl along the wall to the front door, then it climbed up the screen door. I opened the screen and closed the front door. We checked back a half hour later and it was gone, so I guess it was okay, and flew away. That was a crazy experience.

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      Some cats are escape artists- my timeshare cat is a verified cat burglar.

      (He’d steal carrots of all things.)

      They weren’t letting him out intentionally. Took a long while to seal up all the ways he found to get out.

      But yes, it’s a dangerous world for cats. It’s not safe for them, and it’s not safe for critters they go all murder hobo on.

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        One of our cats kept getting out of our old house - took us a couple of weeks to work out that she’d found an access hatch into the subfloor that we didn’t know about in the back of a cupboard and worked out how to lift it up

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          Sykes was apparently getting out through a an attic hatch and an airvent in the roof, then it was down the outside of a gutter and the pillar it ran along (the slate/flatrock stuff that’s meant to be uneven?)

          he got stuck in my greenhouse when I replaced the paddle latch that he was batting open to walk out with a sliding bolt latch that he couldn’t get open. Anyhow… poor guy was scared shitless and angry at the same time, by the time I found him. Putting out a box for him worked enough to get him down and home, at least.

          There was also the window screen, the occasional door getting left open, the basement thingy. probably a dozen different ways that his family still hasn’t found.

          I get to watch him now, when they go on vacation (hence calling him my timeshare cat. I’m not at a place to have my own full time, but I can do a week or so on occasion.)

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      He was in the bowl for less than a minute, then let out in the garden while the cat was locked inside for a while.