{"id":3006,"date":"2018-10-11T02:58:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T10:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2018-10-11T02:58:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T10:58:20","slug":"thoughts-for-thursday-more-outdoor-kitties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3006","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for Thursday \u2013 More Outdoor Kitties"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Not all cats will tolerate being kept inside. My mother has such a cat and he drives her crazy when he doesn\u2019t come on command when she wants him inside. He\u2019s 8 and he has survived nicely over the years. Many cats do. But what do you do when your cat causes problems in the neighborhood? Some do absolutely nothing. There\u2019s little recourse when it comes to retraining a cat. Most owners won\u2019t go through the hassle of trying to keep an outdoor kitty inside. Some neighbors come up with their own solutions\u2014and some of them aren\u2019t pretty.<\/p>\n

There is something you can do to keep your cat in your \"\"yard, however. Build an enclosed catio. Run a string of electricity around the top of your fence. One little zap will generally keep the cat in the yard. One of my friends has just started allowing her kitty outdoor time and she says that he will return to the house when she calls him? How is this possible? She doesn\u2019t just open the door for him. She greets him with exuberant petting. Gives him a wonderful massage AND offers his favorite treat.<\/p>\n

\"\"I wish one of our neighbors had done something like this with their cat when he was terrorizing the neighborhood. He ruined a couple of our screens trying to get at our indoor cats. He broke into another neighbor\u2019s home and attacked their elderly Abyssinian. Thankfully they moved and took their cat with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not all cats will tolerate being kept inside. My mother has such a cat and he drives her crazy when he doesn\u2019t come on command when she wants him inside. He\u2019s 8 and he has survived nicely over the years. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3008,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions\/3008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}