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This is my battle scarred idiot cat. He likes to bring animals inside and promptly forget all about it. (lemm.ee)

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He also picks fights with neighbour cats and dogs and loses every time, costing me a fortune in vet bills. I love him.

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[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 157 points 5 days ago

Stop letting your cat outside.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Some cats are escape artists- my timeshare cat is a verified cat burglar.

(He’d steal carrots of all things.)

They weren’t letting him out intentionally. Took a long while to seal up all the ways he found to get out.

But yes, it’s a dangerous world for cats. It’s not safe for them, and it’s not safe for critters they go all murder hobo on.

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

One of our cats kept getting out of our old house - took us a couple of weeks to work out that she'd found an access hatch into the subfloor that we didn't know about in the back of a cupboard and worked out how to lift it up

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Sykes was apparently getting out through a an attic hatch and an airvent in the roof, then it was down the outside of a gutter and the pillar it ran along (the slate/flatrock stuff that's meant to be uneven?)

he got stuck in my greenhouse when I replaced the paddle latch that he was batting open to walk out with a sliding bolt latch that he couldn't get open. Anyhow... poor guy was scared shitless and angry at the same time, by the time I found him. Putting out a box for him worked enough to get him down and home, at least.

There was also the window screen, the occasional door getting left open, the basement thingy. probably a dozen different ways that his family still hasn't found.

I get to watch him now, when they go on vacation (hence calling him my timeshare cat. I'm not at a place to have my own full time, but I can do a week or so on occasion.)