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Cat Forum / General Topics / November 2005do cats know how to cross the street?
we're moving to a new neighborhood and am apprehensive about letting our cat leave the house. will she be able to look both ways before crossing the street, and does she know how to avoid cars and bikes? Good lord! I hate to say this, because it is a bit sad, but on the main road at the end of my street, I see about 1 dead cat per year laying there :( Its really up to you, but I'd never leave my cat out, although I would if we were in a different situation - such as living out in the sticks with no main roads. :we're moving to a new neighborhood and am apprehensive about letting :our cat leave the house. will she be able to look both ways before :crossing the street, and does she know how to avoid cars and bikes? I think the cats know what they are doing, however drivers are a different story. There was an I'd guess 9 month old stray that we'd feed when he came around. Well one morning a car; motorcycle, truck, who knows what on a side street crushed him. We covered him with my wife's dad's tee shirt and moved him off the road. Later on a guy from animal control (the guy who got the raccoons out of our attic) took him to the country and buried him.  Signature"Other than telling us how to live, think, marry, pray, vote, invest, educate our children and now, die, I think the Republicans have done a fine job of getting government out of our personal lives." >I hate to say this, because it is a bit sad, but on the main road at the >end [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > :our cat leave the house. will she be able to look both ways before > :crossing the street, and does she know how to avoid cars and bikes? >I think the cats know what they are doing, however drivers are a different >story. In over 20 years of driving, I have run over 1 animal and there was literally NOTHING I could have done. They do NOT know what they're doing. Fortunately, it was a small rodent of some sort that probably would have ended up as owl-food anyway for running around on a paved highway with no cover in the middle of the nite. I also saw a dead elk on the same road, and was very thankful I wasn't the guy who hit that. > There was an I'd guess 9 month old stray that we'd feed when he came >around. Well one morning a car; motorcycle, truck, who knows what on a side >street crushed him. We covered him with my wife's dad's tee shirt and moved >him off the road. Later on a guy from animal control (the guy who got the >raccoons out of our attic) took him to the country and buried him. > we're moving to a new neighborhood and am apprehensive about letting our > cat leave the house. will she be able to look both ways before crossing > the street, and does she know how to avoid cars and bikes? NO! They do not know. If you want to have your cat for a long time, keep it inside or in a safe enclosure. MLB > we're moving to a new neighborhood and am apprehensive about letting > our cat leave the house. will she be able to look both ways before > crossing the street, and does she know how to avoid cars and bikes? No, of course not! However, they are opportunists and survivers, so respond to traffic noise. Alas, this can sometimes cause them to bolt in panic towards the very vehicle they would otherwise avoid. Keep your cat indoors as long as possible until she gets used to her new indoor surroundings. Then, put her on a harness and lead and introduce her to the outside world. Use your judgement as to how she responds to this before allowing her unrestricted freedom. Spider no, no and no and since your cat is likely to be high on an alternative to catnip, never let her out in the traffic! > we're moving to a new neighborhood and am apprehensive about letting > our cat leave the house. will she be able to look both ways before > crossing the street, and does she know how to avoid cars and bikes? if cats don't know how to cross the street, how come I saw a neighborhood cat roaming outside on the city streets for about 15 years without getting runned over? he would run from up and down the sidewalks trying to play with strangers, and he did this for 15 years happily. if you meet one person who is an astrophysicist, does that mean all people are astrophysicists? one cat that's lucky for 15 years does NOT mean your cat will be equally lucky for 15 minutes. if you think that the one cat you know that's survived on the street for 15 years is indicative of all cats' ability to survive, why did you come here and ask for people's opinions about letting your cat out? > if cats don't know how to cross the street, how come I saw a > neighborhood cat roaming > outside on the city streets for about 15 years without getting runned > over? he would run from > up and down the sidewalks trying to play with strangers, and he did > this for 15 years happily. don't yell at me! I'm just soliciting opinions. so some people get runned over by cars too. that does not mean you should lock all people up because sometimes they make mistakes and get runned over. can I train my cat to staying inside my back yard? or will he eventually jump the fence out of curiosity? I have seen most of my neighbors cats running freely around the house and into the back yard and front lawn. Can cats be trusted not to leave the confines of the house area (including back yard and front lawn)? > we're moving to a new neighborhood and am apprehensive about letting > our cat leave the house. will she be able to look both ways before > crossing the street, and does she know how to avoid cars and bikes? muahahahaha > > we're moving to a new neighborhood and am apprehensive > > about letting our cat leave the house. will she be > > able to look both ways before crossing the street, and > > does she know how to avoid cars and bikes? > muahahahaha Meaning..? If you have nothing worthwhile to say please keep quiet, it reduces the workload on my killfile filters. Ivor Useful link for an animal alert device which attaches to the front bumper of cars: http://www.911phone.net/Alert.htm >we're moving to a new neighborhood and am apprehensive about letting >our cat leave the house. will she be able to look both ways before >crossing the street, and does she know how to avoid cars and bikes? |
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