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Originally posted by Hack&Lube@Oct 22 2005, 11:47 AM
I'd like to get a cat but I feel badly about not allowing it to exercise it's native instincts. It'd be nice to have a mouse every now and then for it to go through the motions because a lot of cats become restless/bored/depressed when they just live the sedentry domestic lifestyle of canned food and sleeping with no companions or challenges.
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An average cat sleeps 18 hours a day and likely has a happier and far safer life if confined indoors.
Its probably only yourself, not the cat, which thinks it would become restless, bored, depressed, etc. if indoors.
Figures vary, but an average indoor cat will live about 10-13 years while an average outdoor cat will live about two to three years.
Don't get me wrong . . . . cats love the outside but its incorrect to assume a cat that never goes outside and has never know the outside is restless, depressed or bored.
As to the mouse, use traps that kill them outright. That way you don't have to do the job in person. But they should be killed.
Cowperson