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[email protected] · December 27th 05, 11:12 PM posted to rec.pets.cats.health+behav

wrote:
My 'opinion' is, everyone/thing needs a bit of company/interaction with
their own species, to be stimulated and healthy. In Uk there are cat
communities not consisting purely of feral cats, house cats that meet up at
night to play and do cat stuff, my male seems to hold court in the yard at
least once a week, they will be over the road one night, all over next doors
shed the other, they seem to meet, to socialise, sniff the cat nip, chase
the queens (mine's both neutered) The male will come home smelly and tired
then sleep all day.

That's nice if your cat is a social creature. Mine was like that as an
outside feral cat. But since brought indoors, she is often intolerant
of other cats to a marked degree. I let her out. Usually I supervise.
She usually comes in a half hour later by herself. If not, I go find
her and bring her in. Since she is a female, she seems only interested
in her immediate turf, her household, and does not stray. Fortunately,
there is enough open ground that she can sniff and eat grass and
torture the occasional mouse and not need to cross an open road. It's
been this way for three years. But you never know so I try to keep an
eye out in case she suddenly decides to explore some creek or copse.