Re: Troll alert: Re: Average Lifespan of Indoor vs Outdoor Cats

>>>: The average life of an indoor cat is 17 years. The average life of
>>>: a cat that lives outdoors is 2 years. - from the Cats section of
>>>: www.odd-info.com
>>>
>>>Fat lot you know. I've had indoor/outdoor cats all my life (I'm 53)
>>>and all have lived to at least 17-18.
>>>
>>>Ivor
>> 
>> Fat lot you know. I've had indoor/outdoor cats all my life (I'm 53)
>> and all have lived to at least 17-18.
>> 
>> Ivor
>> 
>> Outdoor cats = feral cats.
>> 
>
>        He purposely neglected to call them feral cats so he could post
this. 
>Just ignore him.  The multiposting is also a clue, but not all
>multiposts are by trolls.
>        I knew a feral cat that lived many years.  His name was Jetadiah.
 He
>was a good friend, but hated being indoors and would not voluntarily
>enter the house.


A feral cat that is completely outdoors could live many years if it is
being fed and supplied a place to get out of the weather.

I fed a cat that was feral for 7 or 8 years and he could get in the
neighors garage and out of the weather.  He would not let me anywhere
near him but yet knew when he seen me coming that I was going to feed
him and came to wait on me just far enough out of reach.  Do not know
how old he was but he was an adult when I started feeding him.

He disappeared one summer and we finally found him in a corner of the
garage where he evidently slept and he was gone and I cryed like a
kid.  Then again I have heard of house cats that were a few years old
getting hit or killed when being left out.

Numbers do not tell the whole story and each cat is different.

This being said let me say that I am and always will be an indoor cat
person.  I could no more imaine my 4 legged babies being out wandering
alone then I could my 2 legged babies.