My neighborhood stray is meowing at my windows and scratching at my door because she wants to come inside. I don't know what to do, I want to let her in, but I know my mom wouldn't allow that.
Please help me she started meowing louder I'm gonna cry.
Update: Its been 2 HOURS and she's still there pls somebody help I need advice
This is my porch cat, a cat who chills on my porch at night. She most definitely belongs to someone else as she's really clean. Also, she's very pregnant.
a cat visited my yard today! nandor growled at them through the window and puffed up his tail, even though the visitor was very friendly (they kept rolling back and forth on the front porch and they let me pet them a lot)
Around tumblr lately I’ve seen people with the opinion that not only are free roaming cats bad (correct) but also supervised cats in catios or on leashes (????). I assume it must stem from that “ecology of fear” post from a few months ago, but to me the sudden appearance of these kinds of posts just strikes me as odd. I’ve seen multiple posts like the below one in just this week.
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If your cat is contained to your yard/catio/the sidewalk, then it still allows for predator-free safe places in your neighbourhood for wildlife, and creates predictability for them too. That’s one of the reasons why hiking trails ask people to stay on the trail— so you (and your dog, horse, cat, etc) can safely enjoy nature while still giving it space. It is possible to exist outdoors in natural spaces like that while maintaining wildlife comfort. If it wasn’t possible to do that, dog-friendly or (even just hiking trails in general, since humans are predators too) simply wouldn’t exist.
The problem with free roaming cats is that they break boundaries between human area (ie. trail, back porch) and wildlife area (foliage, etc) and there is nowhere the wildlife can go to exist that is safe from predators.
Idk, this is just my opinion but I just think there can be more nuance to the outdoor/free roaming cat issue than “never let your cat step outside under any circumstance”.
lots of criticism for tiktok as a whole but i'm gonna take a moment to appreciate the running "cat distribution system" meme for when random people rescue found cats. it has really helped educate people about cats and strays and opened people's mind to taking in a random stray if it ever happened to them, just happy to be blessed by the cat distribution system
The other day I saw Porch Cat out by the side of the road and I stopped my car to say hi and tell him how cute he was and ask if he wanted to come home with me (he didn't) and y'all I literally catcalled a cat