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Indoor/Outdoor Cats
To Ann in Florida (re the May 7 newsletter):

It's MUCH better to keep your cats indoors. Cats that go outdoors live, on average, only half as long as indoor cats. Outdoor cats are much more likely to get diseases from saliva introduced via cat bites, such as FIV (which eventually leads to the cat equivalent of AIDS -- not communicable to humans, but an early and painful death for the cat, and time-consuming and expensive for the human unless you put the cat to sleep early in the disease progression).

And of course many cats, while outdoors, get hit by cars. Some get lost, permanently -- and who knows what happens to them? Usually something bad. Attacks by dogs and coyotes sometimes happen. My initally outdoor cat would frequently need antibiotics and sometimes lancing to treat bite wounds that would get infected from the cat fights he got in. Some cats get accidentally poisoned in neighbor's yards (pesticides, engine coolant). Some are intentionally poisoned or trapped by owners who don't want them in their yards or gardens.

My cat began as an outdoor, wild (feral) cat. After months of my feeding him outdoors, he finally trusted me enough and ventured indoors (to get more food). For a few years he was an indoor/outdoor cat. But his health declined, and so I decided to keep him in. I figured out a way to train him to use a cat box. When he really seemed to need to go out, I put him in the bathroom with the cat box and locked him in. He freaked out, and broke out the screen window. The next time, I made sure the window was closed, and I stayed in the bathroom with him, lying in the tub over a blanket with a pillow and a book. I was prepared for an hours-long stay, but I lucked out. But after just a few minutes, he opted to use the box.

He's been an indoor cat ever since. His health improved. He is quite happy. I buy flushable cat litter, to make that chore more convenient. I just make sure to spend a few minutes playing with him every day to give him some excercise and fun.
Indoors only!

And Nancy, I love reading the newsletter; I copy and paste many of the recipes and keep them in various Notepad files by category. When I move into my new digs with a better kitchen and more storage space, I'll have plenty of good recipes to start trying out.
Jeff in L.A.

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