• Thrashy@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The only cat I’ve had that I’ve felt okay with letting roam was a stray that came to us declawed, so he was mostly harmless. We still ended up making him an inside cat because we caught him sneaking into the neighbor’s house to steal their cat’s food and poop in its litterbox.

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        10 months ago

        Not a lot of coyotes in our neck of the woods, but the little orange moron kept writing checks with the neighbor cats that his disarmed front paws couldn’t cash, so he was always coming back with scratches. One of the other reasons we stopped letting him out.

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            10 months ago

            Is that how that works though? I don’t know anything about Coyotes, but I know things generally know better than to fuck with cats.

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              10 months ago

              … Are you asking if a coyote can eat a cat?

              Do you understand they hunt deer? Theyre not really worried about a cat with clawless arthritis, horn and hoof wounds are much bigger threats.

              Predators dont know better than to not fuck with cats, most of them know to grab them before they get up a tree.

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        10 months ago

        I would never do it to a cat, but when this particular one wandered into my then-girlfriend’s house one night and decided he lived there, he was already declawed. He never seemed to suffer too badly from it, fortunately.

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      10 months ago

      But what if he was a guest there? Maybe the neighbour’s cat told him “make yourself at home?” Did you even ask him? Psh …

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        10 months ago

        We actually found out when my wife was over visiting, and he came in through the cat door, locked eyes with her, froze, and slowly backed out of the house. 😅