Outdoors House Cat Conduct.

Originally posted by J.A.W. I doubt it "...that female cats are way more intelligent than males..."

My statement is based on my experiences. I have been never teaching my cats any tricks but females just learned them by watching us - people at home. So they were using human toilet, turning on the lights in house, opening doors. While my male cats have never did anything like that.

My familly is use to have cats for about 25 years. My parents got 4 in their house and I got one (I had two but one got sick and died after being with me for 14 years). So far I have observed that female cats are way more intelligent than males and also are use to hunt much more than males. Now most of our cats is quite old and became lazy but in the past they were quite effective hunters.

Edited by Mosquito - 20-Mar-2016 at 16:34

Good guess, M! Right 1st time.. We're close to Cape Byron, the most easterly point of the mainland.

Yes, the 4th so far - this season..

I was the recipient of another present of a venomous snake today, left freshly killed on the back door step..

other notes...cats have a routine, as I said...usually learned thru their mothers however if they are taken away to soon or the mother is lost...they like humans use trial and error.

Watching them learn it as young ones can be funny or a major pain in the ass.

climbing curtains, chewing electrical cords...learning to duck when they see a 5 pound boot come flying as they chew the cords, chasing bugs, first climbing trees, attacking puppies for fun, climbing into drawers and getting stuck, etc etc etc.

What is later defined as 'normal' behavior is really not normal at all as faic. but it becomes routine. for the cat; hence normal I suppose for them.

My current feline is a fixed lady who does not purr and occasionally will still bite the hell out of me just for giggles. she does not like much physical contact either.

but...at night after she has annoyed the shit out of me by demanding to go outside every half hour on the hour, until sometimes as late as 2.00am. she finally will jump on to the bad and curl up behind my knees.
it is the only time she like be touched and even then there is a limit on that.

she lays there until I rise and then... bang off onto the routine of take a dump..eat some food...give herself a bath and begin patrolling outside again.

when she wants attention and signals it, she accepts a few cursory scratches behind her ear and the runs off to lie down under the chair. or back outside. or climbs up into a gawdamn drawer to get stuck again.

a routine.

she doesn't like it when I leave on business..she is not personable towards others initially...and in general is probably better suited for outdoors than in.

I often wonder if the silly little thing doesn't think I'm a bit odd as she lays there eyeballing me. for letting her be her that is.

personally...she reminds me of my ex wife.

Thanks guys, but nah, he aint feral, he likes his comforts too much, as C.V. notes,

JAW, your dealing with a feral cat. He's smart enough to know he's got you as a safety net.

The 2 cats that I have are indoor only. The black and white was born here, the white was pulled from an Ivy bed at about 5 weeks.
The B&W has never been outside overnite. The behaviors differ with the white having more feral tendencies. Both of his parents hang around outside.

I've been feeding his mother for about 12 years, but she has only allowed me to touch her once, and that was when she had a serious leg wound.

I don't know where your located, but is Lyme disease present in your region?
You might consider getting him vaccinated or treated for Lyme if it is.

I realize it's an expense, but getting him his shots is a good idea. Some cat diseases can be transferred to other animals and also humans.

In our town we have a Vet service that makes house calls, it helps if transport is a problem. And it costs about the same as an office visit.

Oddly enough C.V. I'd heard of the high-test ETOH douche - being used as a method to deal with paralysis ticks..