Cat is Killing Animals

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Registered: 11-07-2004
Cat is Killing Animals
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Sun, 11-07-2004 - 5:24pm
Hello,

I’m sure everyone has seen this question many times on the cat boards, but I have to ask it for the first time. I would like to know if there’s any way to keep my 7 month old female from killing animals and bringing them into the house.

We have 6 year old neutered male cat named Bilbo. We had a cat door installed for him years ago, and he comes and goes as he pleases. We recently adopted a feral kitten, and we named her Sammie. We’ve had her since she was a few weeks old. I’m not sure what happened to her siblings or her mother. We live way out in the country, and there’s a lot of feral cats living around our property.

Sammie has been recently spayed, and she’s had all of her shots. We taught her recently how to use the cat door, and she loves the freedom of popping in and out of the house at will. Unfortunately, she’s started bringing home unwilling visitors. I don’t like the idea of her killing animals, but I especially don’t like the idea of her bringing home half dead moles and lizards.

I know that making our cats indoor only pets is an option, but it’s not an option for us for a variety of reasons.

Any help on this will be appreciated.

Thank You

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Sun, 11-07-2004 - 7:43pm

*WELCOME* to Cats Creekgirl33.

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Registered: 11-07-2004
Sun, 11-07-2004 - 8:39pm
Catwoman,

Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for the response. My instinct told me that keeping her strictly indoors would solve the problem, but I was hoping there was something I was overlooking. I'm not really disturbed by Sammie's behavior because I know it's natural. I was just hoping there was some way of having my cake and eating it, too(meaning having an indoor/outdoor cat that was not bent on destroying every lizard and mole within a mile radius of the house).

Thanks,

Creekgirl

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Mon, 11-08-2004 - 10:16am

Hi Creekgirl33.


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