#inside cats

[great-and-small]

Anyone else think the “phantom cat shaver” might be an inside cat vigilante trying to send a message? This is already making some Brits say they’ll keep their cats indoors.

#cats #phantom cat shaver #inside cats #if they could guarantee no kitties are harmed I could maybe get on board #hope it’s not more sinister

[friendraichu]

#indoor cats #outdoor cats #outside cats #inside cats #animal welfare

[sweetface-the-dollbaby]

I have a black cat

she’s around a year old

she’s my everything

I would do anything for her

If anything happened to her I don’t know what I’d do

That’s why she’s an inside cat.

#black cats #don’t have outside cats #If you’re allergic to cats just don’t get a cat #inside cats

[the-re-farmer]

Caught... and settled in

My computer was misbehaving, and I think I discovered the cause. There was an operating system update waiting for me to power down the computer. So while that’s doing it’s thing, I’ll just use my phone to share this bit of adorableness. Can you spot the new face? There are now 8 kittens in there. I managed to snag the tiniest outside kitten. This is one of the 8 that were born in the barrel,…

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#Critters #inside cats #kittens #postaday

[luckywolfsbane]

Ilyushka, I swear to the gods. I was so scared when I woke up and you weren't there. Ooshi, my girl, what the fuck?

SOOOOO my cat got out. Specifically, Ilya. I didn't know because she was *inside* at the last check, which(my fault) I did too early, apparently. She spent the ENTIRE NIGHT outside. In the rain. Under a tarped, boken couch. Thank you, Luke, for tarping the broken couch. Idk WHY you did that, but Ilya was safe thanks to your actions, so... I can't complain.

Anyway, I woke up nonverbal and went hunting for her bc she wasn't sleeping near me. I started crying bc I swore she was going to end up like Leonidas(catnapped. He was taken and never returned despite his collar and tags AND my missing posters and months of searching).

I was crying on the porch, and I saw this little white head poke out of the tarp when I called her softest name, "Ooshi." She mewed at me, but didn't come. So I had to untarp the chair(run the neighborhood cat off accidentally) and pick her out of the broke couch by hand.

She's inside now with a full belly. This cat makes me crazy. She scared me so bad.

#ilya the cat #my cat #inside cats #inside cat got outside

[bigbigtruck]

Bam just wants to know we’re there

#cats #scrumbly CSP pens #she was a stray on our street for 14 years and finally came inside for good 11 months ago #she’s still getting used to how home works

[celine-song]

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) dir. Joel and Ethan Coen

#inside llewyn davis #oscar isaac #filmedit #userzoo #cinemapix #cinematicsource #dailyflicks #filmgifs #fyeahmovies #moviegifs #userfilm #useroptional #userrobin #tuserdana #arthurpendragonns #henricavyll #userbrittany #* #the cat in that car scene... you know the one... oscar worthy performance

[idliketobeatree]

btw when you're being mean to aziraphale this is who you're being mean to. hope this helps

#good omens #aziraphale #good omens memes #good omens fandom #good omens s2 #good omens shitpost #good omemes #go s2 #poor little meow meow #michael sheen #job minisode #a companion to owls #staying as far away from fandom discourse as possible but i feel it needs to be said #he's a walking talking crying wet cat on the inside #and he needs a pat on the head maybe a lil kick to the butt. not all this backlash. peace and love on gomens earth #marcela talks #ghost(shit)posted by crowley #aziraphale defense squad #i cleary underestimated the emotional weight of his kittydog eyes. you're good

[nezmar]

Like that of all revolutions that have passed their heyday of strident ideology, the most extreme rhetoric of the late 1990s open-source movement can seem overheated if not downright silly today, the blinkered product of a tiny strata of metaphorical inside cats who have concluded, rather conveniently for themselves, that the most important social-justice campaign of their age is one that can be waged from behind their keyboards and monitors, just the place where they happen to feel most comfortable.

» Going Rogue The Digital Antiquarian

#open source #inside cats #90s #lol

[prinnay]

Fizzy

#astronaut #danger: cat inside #cola #art

[alex-without-the-cis]

I don't know if anyone will see this, but why is it bad to have inside-outside cats?

And how do you train them out of going outside?

#outside cats #cats #inside cats #just a question

[bobblestheninja]

I think they should make cat collars in convict orange, with reflectors.

That way I can put a collar on my idiots that screams "I AM AN ESCAPED CRIMINAL AND YOU SHOULD CONTACT THE AUTHORITIES TO INFORM THEM OF MY ESCAPE AND THAT I HAVE BEEN FOUND/SPOTTED"

If that was a thing and people knew about it then I wouldn't have to worry about someone just ignoring their jailbreak because they think they're an "outside cat." Because, while my kitties are inside cats, occasionally they manage to slip out the door when groceries are being brought in, or when someone isn't paying enough attention.

I don't want them mistaken for cats that are just allowed to roam free where the coyotes and birds of prey can get them. I want them safely inside with their toys and food and medication for their various senior-related ailments.

#inside cats #I'm moving back in with my parents and my mum in particular is bad about accidentally letting the cats out #she'll be letting the dogs into the backyard and not paying attention to if one of the other furry idiots is lurking around #and then the cat just ambles outside and has to be caught #and I don't trust my morons not to get lost... especially not Bobbles

[absentlyabbie]

i'll tell you what converted me to being all-in on keeping cats indoors only:

living for a year and a half in a rural area with a sudden feral cat colony explosion on the property.

i moved in with my folks for a bit and at that time, one (1) stray cat mama had taken up residence on the property, but was too feral to let my mother anywhere near her. but especially after she brought three kittens around, mom fed her and the kittens in hopes they'd grow trusting enough she could catch for spay and neuter at the minimum. momcat stayed mean and hella wary, but the kittens would hang around a little nearer and play with my mom via long stick, but still wouldn't come close enough to touch or catch.

unfortunately, two of the three kittens were girls and started having kittens of their own before further progress was made, shortly after i moved in. and that was pretty much instant doom.

there were so many kittens. SO MANY. multiple litters. every time we turned around, more kittens.

we fed them. we hunted for and located the kittens every time anywhere on the property and would move them to a repurposed doghouse anytime a mama cat had them somewhere else, so that they could grow up human-socialized and we could spay/neuter them when they were old enough. (also it was a handy tactic to push the issue of the mamas getting more used to/trusting of us themselves. only really worked with one of them, though.)

and we watched them die.

we watched litter after litter of kittens never make it to the age they could be spayed or neutered. the moms stayed, for the longest time, too skittish to more than briefly touch, much less catch and crate for a vet visit.

it sounds like a silly joke to say i have kitten-related ptsd, but i absolutely do.

too many goddamn times i'd walk out of the garage and find the carport and gravel drive strewn with tiny bodies. others simply went missing, never to be found.

one in particular, i wish i hadn't found, and the visual literally haunts me still, almost a decade later.

i saw so many kittens die of snake bite, spider bite, wild dogs, birds of prey, hit by cars, respiratory illness, covered in fleas and eyes crusted with infection.

and we loved them all. scrimped for antibiotics if the vet could be convinced to give it to us despite our being unable to bring them in. bought flea collars and ointments. we cared for them and fed them and petted them and played with them, brushed their fur and cleaned up their little faces, put ice in their water in hot summer, rigged a heating lamp in their house in the winter.

and they died. horribly. that property is pocked with unmarked graves of kittens and cats.

all the best intentions, not enough resources, and it didn't matter anyways because the population went from three to almost twenty (at times, over thirty) in the blink of an eye.

they died and died and died. our hearts broke over and over again. the stress and anxiety wore us down like sandpaper. i think, by the end of it all, we managed to find less than 10 of them all homes, including batman the disabled kitten i found a home across the country through tumblr.

it was carnage and tragedy, frankly. and we were helpless.

it only ended because they started dying faster than they could be born, and because we finally caught the two remaining mom cats in traps and got them spayed.

the points about outdoor cats being invasive predators devastating to local wildlife populations is true and valid and important.

but i know cat people, and cat people who don't know better than to let cats outdoors. what matters to you is the cat itself, generally. the cat being happy and taken care of.

keeping cats outdoors, letting them outdoors, is not taking care of the cats. it's not protecting them. it's not giving them any happiness or invigoration that couldn't be provided to them as indoor-only pets with just a little research and effort.

they die. they get ill. they get hurt. they're at risk of predators, and cars, and disease, and carelessly cruel children and deliberately cruel adults. they're at risk of disappearing on you because someone else saw a cat outdoors and intervened to give it a better, safer life not in conflict with the local environment.

and if that offends and angers you that someone would just take a cat they saw roaming outdoors, even collared, and that it sounds like i'm endorsing that, i am, but not if you intervene and be that person yourself for your own cat.

if what matters to you is doing right by your cat because it's family and a living creature whose happiness and health and safety is important to you,

keep them indoors. not part time. always. exclusively.

edit: since apparently i need to clarify this, i'm saying cats should live inside, that they should not live outdoors, even part time. visiting the outdoors supervised on a leash or in an enclosed catio is not the same as even part-time living outside, and i am certainly not advocating against it.

#long post #cats #indoor cats #outdoor cats #keep your cats inside

[the-re-farmer]

An unplanned outing on a gorgeous day

First, the cuteness! I caught Peanut Butter Cup being adorable in her sleep. She has quite settled in, and I’ve even woken up to find her curled up on me! The only down side of that is, she’s got… digestive issues. Little Miss Leaky Butt has inadvertently created much laundry. She’s gotten better, but not as much as the others. For a while, we had a whole lot of cats having… liquidity issues.…

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#Critters #Fun Stuff #groceries #inside cats #planning ahead #postaday

[robo-milky]

Ambiguous Late Valentines Day art for you all <3

Loosely inspired by the heart dissection I did a couple days ago

#pUT THAT THING BACK INSIDE YOU MR HUNT 💥💥 #YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DIE ON MY WATCH- #cat scribblez 🌸 #twisted wonderland #twst #rook hunt #twst rook #twisted wonderland art #twst art #twisted wonderland fanart #twst fanart #ツイステ #ツイステッドワンダーランド #ルーク・ハント #ツイステファンアート #cw gore #cw blood #yandere rook hunt #rook x reader

[cemeterything]

accepting the quest GO ON A STUPID LITTLE WALK FOR YOUR STUPID MENTAL HEALTH allows you to gain achievements like FEEL SLIGHTLY MORE ALIVE AND LIKE YOU EXIST IN THE WORLD and PET KITTY

#🐉 #cats #honestly i was feeling so sick and empty inside and this little guy turned that all around