INDOOR, OUTDOOR OR BOTH ?

Amongst cats you have indoor or outdoor cats, that depends where you are living. The outdoor cat likes strolling in gardens, woods, or parks or trying to find out if there is any cat food left in neighbors cat bowls., A human who goes out doesn't stroll in gardens, there he is supposed to work, in the woods he has to respect ways, is not allowed to hide under bushes (they do sometimes but for bad purposes) or climb on a tree, in parks it's the same but he can rest on a bank or walk around. He doesn't look for bowls, but for Restaurants and bars. That's the difference between an outgoing cat and an outgoing human.

The indoor cats try to do the same as the outdoor cats and this can sometimes be dangerous for the furniture, curtains or other things in the house. Humans having indoor cats provide them with beautiful scratchposts, countless toys, from plush till teleguided mice and are proud to buy the nices basket and the beautifullest litter box. (nothing is good enough even the automatically cleaned litter box)
And what does that ungrateful cat do ? Disdaining the scratchpost she prefers sofas, armchairs, carpets and curtains, which, she is convinced, are much better

than a stupid scratchpost. The same with the toys, there are TV or other cables laying around, cords, laces or nice silk underwear, cigarette butts, newspapers (especially the last one) or in any case something moving whatever that is. (even if the whole tablewear lands on the floor)

The litterbox she uses of course, but with tendency of sitting besides especially when it has not been cleaned up immediately after the last visit.

For food in and outdoor cats behave the same way they want to eat when there is nothing in the bowl and are not eating when the bowl is full. They also have in commun to wake up their owners in the middle of the night, just to check if they are sleeping well. Outdoor cats even bring a gift.
Which is an adorable gesture and shows how much she loves them. Of course both cats are not using the beautiful basket, as they are very caring they leave it where it is just for decoration and
prefer to sleep on sofas, in beds, on microwaves, computers, in suitcases or cartons in wardrobes on tables and computers just where they just have decided to be tired.

Both cat categories usually love to watch TV and their preferences are animal shows especially other cats. This invites the owner to buy special cat CDs.


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Always better than a bowl

My cats are both, in and outdoor. But Lisa the oldes one (15) goes only out when the weather is warm and the sun shining, otherwise it's to cool for her old bones, although she is still able to climb in the weaping willow in our gardes, or on the highest wardrobe in the house. Pookie my personal cat only goes out when I am with her otherwise she does her obligatory 24 h sleeep mostly on my bed. Kim and Arthur, black and white are always outside only coming in for foot or when it rains for a nap. But they never go far and show up from time to time just to assure as that they are still there.

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CAT BOOKS MAKE WISER

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I have a lot of cat books, which I never red. The reason was, I only looked at the pictures for inspiration when I wanted to start a new painting. That's what I did today and suddenly I didn't look at the pictures, I red the text for the first time although I had these books since many years. And now I am much more intelligent as before because I learned a lot of things on top of the others I knew already.

So did you know that a cat helds many naps. Every day about 16 h. When I look at mine I think the statistic has to be reviewed, they sleep at least 20 h per day.

Cat nap with Barbie

I also learned that a cat is a carnivor. Yes I can see that when they jump on the table to get the chicken or steak down, while I am doing something else and have my back turned to them.

Just had a steak !

Indoor cats need special grass for their digestion. That is true too, only my indoor cats go outside, take themselves for a cow, come back and vomit on the best carpet. This is digestion.

A cat washes for 3 hours a day (again statistics) Mine wash more, especially when they have done something they are not allowed to do. So they show me that they are busy and cannot listen. But what I didn't know is that while they are washing they swallow Vitamine D which apparently sticks on their furr. That is great ! I will try that too, so I don't have to buy vitamines anymore in a drugstore.

cat climbing place

Where are the firemen ?

The book also said that they need to climb. Really ? Now I understand why they climb on tables, sofas, beds, shelves and other places and outside cats on cars, trees, walls and windows. I also understand why sometimes people have to call the firemen with an enormous ladder to get poor darling cat down !

love season

They also talk about "love season" what a unromantic word ! During that period the female cat curls on the back and pushes loud screams because she is in heat. I don't know it's not warm at all, it's even cold and then in this house it's love season all the time and even males do that. I am worried. We are not a normal family. Fights come up and the strongest one wins. Here too, only there is no winner, the one who has enough just walks away. He anyway is not interested in females at all.

I love you, I love you ...

My nightmare ...kitty pile

Poor cats, they all have been spayed. And that is good so ! Otherwise I would have ..... take the calculater : at least 5 x kittens 4 x a year during average 10 years (average is 5 to 8 babies per litter), I red. Is there anybody able to give us a result ? Can you immagine how my house would look like ? I would have NO space at all for me. Even now I have to shrink to a dwarf to find a space.

A happy cat

If a cat is happy, I learned, she purrs. OK, but are my Arthur and Kim never happy ? That is awfull ! They never purr ! I am heartbroken ! And probably because of that the two others, Lisa and Pookie are two little motors on 8 legs. (4 legs per cat)

I also red that the first cats have been domesticated 4500 years ago by the Egyptians and they were even gods and had been mummyfied. (I have to learn how to do that)

And all those who believe in Allah should know that Mohamed cut off his sleeve because his cat was sleeping on it, while he was sitting in the sun and he didn't want to disturb her. Such a man cannot order to kill ! That must be the men who misinterpreted the koran.

And as I have nothing to say in this house but feed the cats, it's time by now !

WHAT CAT EATS AND THE FOLLOW UP

(attention :some of the following pictures maybe not suited for delicate eyes)
Cats usually have a very good appetite, but they also can be very difficult, especially when they have the choice. And a cat learns very quickly. If she sniffles at the food and doesn't eat it immediately and you hurry to open another can, then of course next time it will be exactly the same. And who of our cat lovers can resist to a poor little cat who is starving for .... another can.

But they also have strange tastes :

I have been told that cats are eating :

Gorgonzola (italian cheese) with chocolate !
cheese
green beans
cauwly flowers
tomatoes (cooked)
sandwiches, stuffed and unstuffed
eggs and omlets
Spinages
pop corn
ice cream
cakes
chocolate

and so on.

Milk, whipped cream and babyfood sounds already better.

From my four cats Lisa and Arthur only eat can food or see above.
Pookie and Kim only dry food and nothing else not even chicken or beaf ! And they are always offered the same as the others, but no way, they just turn around and walk

proudly away to their bowls filled with dry food.

Lisa doesn't like it, and couldn't eat either because she only has 5 teeth left. Arthur as he eats everything possible has a look on the dry food bowls and would try it.

Yes cats as humans do have their favorites in food.

And they also like grass. Grass is very important to them, as it helps the digestion. Appartment cats sometimes have troubles, because their owner forgot the cat grass.

For the natural exigences they are also different :

Some do !

Inside cats have no choise, that's the litterbox
Inside and outside cats have a choise and so when it rains, they go inside, when it's dry they go outside. Seems logical. But (because there is a but) some cats don't like earth or grass or whatever and always go inside, preferably when the litter box has

just been cleaned.

And there is a real ceremony going on with almost all cats. First they look for an adequat place, in the freshly digged up flower bed for example. Then they prepare a little hole with the front paws tossing the earth around in all directions. When this is done they sit on the hole with the tail and chin up and have a very concentrated, penetrative look. Work accomplished they would turn around the hole at least tree times, before covering it up meticulously. (The indoor or indoor/outdoor cats mostly forget this last action and jumps just out of the litter box with the content gluing on their paws

Here no hole had been digged,

there were a paper laying around

Start washing procedure :

ready for a little nap

IT'S COLD AND IT RAINS - POOR CATS

It rains !

My poor cats are unhappy. It rains and not a little rain, but cats and dogs.

As Pookie doesn't like other cats except her family, she won't go out. Dogs either, except Yanouk the neighbour's dog. So what she does ? Having breakfast first. Then looking after flies and other little insects. She prefers that to mice or birds. She likes tiny little things. When it was warm she offered me a grasshopper, which suddenly sat on my keyboard. Not for long as Pookie tried to jump on there too and I had to protect my computer. After that, she catched it and ... ate it ! Disgusting. She does the same with flies. As if there were not enough food ! Now she is exhausted and sleeps on my bed.

Lisa, old ladylike, would just put her head out and retire immediately. She hates all what is wet. Rain included. So she settles down on a bed of her choice and sleeps. From time to time when somebody is in the kitchen, she runs over there, pretends to be hungry, sniffles at the bowl and with a bored look returns to her choosen place and continues her nap. That's her only occupation during the day. Food and Sleep.

I have to add that none of our cat's have a special place to sleep. They sleep everywhere.

Why not ?

Kim, she loves rain. She even settles down in the wet grass just in front of the garden house and takes her nap there. When she comes back just to feed herself I have to take a towel and dry her. At least I try, because when she sees me coming with the towel in my hand she runs back in the rain. She doesn't like towles. She is afraid of as she is afraid of everything else. Dogs, humans, books, towles, even movements. She only likes cats and now since a few month also the brush. As she has so long hairs, it is absolutely necessary to brush her, otherwise she gets knots and we have to take her to the vet to get her shaved. And then she looks like if the mots had been in her furr. So there is nothing to do she remains wet and dries herself.

Arthur too likes the rain he jumps and plays in there and is completely happy. When he comes back he immediately climbes on the table and asks to be dried. He loves it and even when he is dry he still wants to be dried. After that, he would clean himself probably convinced that the towel was dirty. After having washed himself from top to bottom he also chooses a place and falls asleep happily.

So by now, all my cats are laying around on something. The house looks like a huge dormitory everywhere a cat lays around. In some way it's cosy, when you look outside its grey and cold and you can hear the rain on the roof and inside you see four little furr balls and you don't know where heads and paws are. The only thing you can see is their tail around the little balls.

And this is a month of August in Belgium ! (59°F or 15°C) We had to put the heating
on.


My husband and I