Cats are great - never regretting getting mine.
Best to have them from kittens though, and don't let them leave their mother too soon as she teaches them about litter trays and hunting.
Going away is a hassle, mine likes company so 1 night is about the most I will do, I have somebody coming over to feed her for any longer.
We took our cat to a cattery and the lady said that every Iams cat she had in was overweight, and every Purina cat was not...
don't let them leave their mother too soon as she teaches them about litter trays and hunting.
And how to clean themselves. One of our cats, Binky (short for Bianchi)'s nickname is stinky binky because he was a rescue cat, saved from a bag and a nearby river at a very young age.
Fleas, sick, dead animals, sick, garden now devoid of all birds that used to be there, feathers, sick, fights in the middle of the night....Pain in the ass
If you are going to feed it Dried food, I can thoroughly recommend leaving it plenty of water, we lost our old cat to kidney disease, it lived on dried food we thought it got enough water, but it might not of had enough.
This is mine.
Called Archie,really nice with you for two minutes then randomly attacks you!
Oh,and dead birds around the garden are VERY commonplace.
Cats are ace. There's no down side. From time to time they may even allow you to feel like you're the one in charge in the relationship. Maybe. Not often though
Think you're confusing cats with women there...
he or she will break your heart when die 
Great a cat thread, cats are the best pets by far, here's ours... (crap pics)
Vega
Yeti
Chilli
Cats are the best pet. I have six of them in my life (not all stay with me!)
Yes they have a killed a bird each in the past but (mainly as they were magpies and they were ill afterwards) they don't bother with birds at all (i'm sat here typing this as a blackbird is hopping around the garden right near where one of the cats is lying)
The only downsides i've come across are the odd occasion when they get stuck in a tree and when they walk across your keyboard!
These 2 are abut 3 months old now and getting big!
Two of the above also play fetch with a ball of paper or foil, they run to fetch it, run back and drop it in my open hand 
They kill birds / wildlife needlessly and fill your neighbours garden with poo.
downsides to cats, i am looking at a fluffy ball looking very appealing, but a couple of days ago she let a bat loose in the spare bedroom, and two mice the week before.
She has in the past given me an bunny, not really what you want to find at the end of the bed on easter sunday. Countless voles & mice, a few rabbits, slow worms, lizards, toads, frogs, newts, worms, moths, a pigeon and a stoat.
Remember you never own a cat, you are merely their servant.
Our two
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I hate them - the cats and the neighbours who own them and let them out all day and night to trespass and crap in my garden and kill the birds
let them out all day and night to trespass
Have you thought of putting a sign up ?
cats can't read ... I doubt some of the neighbours can either. You need a sign to say keep out of your own property ??
cats can't read
Try this :
currently a servant to four cats!
but at least i don't need to bother with any giant house spiders - they don't last five minutes - yum yum!
She has in the past given me an bunny, not really what you want to find at the end of the bed on easter sunday. Countless voles & mice, a few rabbits, slow worms, lizards, toads, frogs, newts, worms, moths, a pigeon and a stoat.
So those bells you get for their collars are a waste of time (in terms of saving mammals/birds. Doubt a bell would be much warning for frog/worm/moth)?
The downsides to having a cat are: they sh1t all over your neighbours garden, they kill or maim birds in your neighbours garden and leave them there, they leave dirty paw prints on your neighbours car windscreen, they claw the top rails of your neighbours fence, they claw the bark off the ornamental trees in your neighbours garden, they scare all the wildlife away from your neighbours garden etc, etc, etc so no downsides for you if you don't get on with your neighbours but plenty to p1ss off your neighbours and cost them a lot of time and money, i dislike cats but dislike their owners more as no owner has ever cleaned up the mess or compensated for the damage these vile creatures cause
We have a constant stream of live/dead animals brought through the cat flap. We had a 2 day cat/mouse standoff when one escaped and climbed into the Christmas Tree, it managed to eat most of the chocolates before it finally gave up and came down. This week I have had two headless rabbits. That said the two cats are great and we do love having them about.
I love cats, have had them in the past, but I wouldn't get one now, as they do roam about in other peoples gardens which does people off.
Neighbours but one have a really nice looking cat, it now despite our best efforts to discourage it, sits under the bird table in our garden all f'in day scaring the birds away and killing a few (it had a robin last week).
Another cat from across the road persists in shitting in the veg patch, the neighbours won't do anything about it so I will probably eventually make the cat disappear.
So out of not wishing to be a hypocrite I've decided not to get one.
Cats are ace! The thinking persons pet.
For the life of me I don't 'get' dogs. Love 'em to bits (as I do most animals - notable exceptions being wasps and humans), but what a shite pet!
We occasionally dog sit as our place for a friend, and the novelty of having a dog in the house very quickly wears off when every time one of us moves/flinches/blinks/farts the dog gets up panting expectantly thinking it somehow involves them! Jesus wept, leave us alone! Amuse yourself like a cat does you brainless addled animal!
I wonder if all dogs are like this, and whether the owners like their partners the same, always following them around with that 'I love you' look like a, well, like a lost dog! Drives me mad.
+1 votchy
Cat lovers - if your cat was big enough, it would eat you.
Cat lovers - if your cat was big enough, it would eat you.
I think about that all the time..............makes keeping a cat even more ace.
Specially with Dennis, 'cause he looks just like a very small tiger 
I like cats, but they're hobby killers of wildlife. Belled, just fed, whatever - makes no difference. It's irresponsible to own one and let it out of your house off a leash.
None of my three cats ever hunt. One did a bit when he was younger, but only very rarely. And all my previous cats grew out of hunting when they got older - after about a couple of years.
EDIT : Dennis will however without hesitation attack foxes - the little git.
in case people become filled with sanctimonious rage when discussing the correct training technique for you and your cat... 
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