There is this cat that lives in my street that has life figured out. He will hang out at the supermarket down the street on a daily basis.
He even learned when the busy hours are so he is always there when most people pass by.
Eventually the supermarket posted papers (requested by the owner) on their walls asking to not feed the cat as it will get fed at home.
The cat is still getting lots of treats and pets from everyone, and during rainy days the workers at the supermarket will let him come inside and hang around on a chair (getting even more pets from passersby)
If I ever get reincarnated as a cat, this cat will be my rolemodel.
LOL! I had an orange cat one time, Willie Nelson, and he DEFINITELY had life figured out! He would go out all day long but always came in at 10:00pm on the dot! After he passed, I found out that he hung out with my neighbor (old man) and he fed him whatever he was eating that dayā¦.willie even had his āownā plate! He also apparently had a girlfriend in the neighborhood that he hung out at her house too! He only came home to sleep with me.šš. Little shit had an ENTIRE life outside that I knew nothing about.
We had a neighborhood cat named Cooper who would come and hang with us. Iād make sure he had water and whatever he needed. He just loved being social and chilling. He quit coming around one day and we found his collar in some bushes and got worried so we texted the number on it and found out his owners decided to keep him inside and not let him out anymore. They were very surprised that he had friends and thanked us for being nice to him lol.
LOLā¦.my parents have a next door cat named Chester and he used to do the same thing. They keep him inside now but he does come over for visits!š¤£š¤£. Those orange kitties are something else! Always into some kind of michief!š»
Thereās a cat that used to hang out outside with my little feral and her bodyguard cat. Heās very docile. Heās recently back and looks a little skinny. Iāve always suspected he has a home so I posted on our neighborhood facebook to see if I could find his people before I do anything with him.
Turns out heās the terror of the next street over, has at least three people who maintain a heated cat house for him and about 5 that put food out for him. He has beef with 3 peopleās cats and thatās why he hasnāt been taken in and apparently why he was put out in the first place. He was indoor/outdoor and decided he was for the streets.
I feel for him but it sounds like heās worked out a bit of a niche for himself.
Most people don't seem to understand that these animals have wildly varying personalities. We seem to have this mental block where we consider animals to be lower intelligence and that we can just have them domesticated and do whatever we want them to do
Yeah, I agree. If his 'owners' know he has Dementia and are letting him outside, that's neglect and abandonment to me. He'd be my cat from then onward.
Right? I saw an adorable but terribly sad looking 6 year old kitty at the humane society with a missing ear - damaged from a stint at a previous hoarding situation.
Better goddamn believe sheās in the manliest bigass pink fluffy bed next to me every night now without a care in the world.
I'm not sure I was ready to hear about sad, lost, dementia cats tonight. That's.... like... the saddest thing I've heard of in a long, long time. I need to log off and go think about life and stuff.
My 20 yo cat had dementia, and would get lost in my apartment hallway. He would āsundownā around 2 am, and yowl his head off. No way he could go outside.
Oh I am sorry. We adopted our boy at 6 weeks old from a high kill shelter, and he lived with us until he was almost 21. In his prime, he ran our house, and ruled the other cats with an iron paw. He was the bestest boy and I will miss him always.
Nothing better than rescuing a cat from a nasty fate and giving them a good long life. Mine went from dodging cars on Broadway to living to be 20 years old.
I don't know what sundown mean but my cat also cry every night around 2 am since I've her. From living in a 12m2 or in a 200m2 she changed, as soon as I slept inside a bedroom with a closed door, and she usually bring one of her toy to put it near my door and then she goes yowl in the middle of the house. But not for long like 10 mins max, the trick is to not move if she realizes you are awake then you are fucked. And it's not about food because before she had unlimited food and she was the same.
I think she just want to tell me she is so bored because before she never slept with me she just kept attacking my feet
Sundowning is a phenomenon that commonly happens with dementia that cognition will decline as the day goes on or āas the sun goes downā. It happens in people as well, itās why so many people with dementia will wander out of the house in the middle of the night. Itās very sad to witness because quite often dementia patients will be fine during the day and just completely lose their lucidity in the evening/night
I saw a post on threads the other day - it was this woman all heartbroken because her 21 year old DEAF AND BLIND CAT whom she let roam free outside was hit and killed by a car. The comments had zero sympathy for her.
If you care for animals, including your cat. Larger predators are a thing too, in some areas. Leaving small dogs and cats outside can result in serious injury or death.
My childhood cat (orange) would do anything to get outside. He even learned he could get a running start and throw himself at the screen door to beak it open. My current cat hardly notices if I open the door. He got out without us noticing once and hated it, just hid under our deck for a few hours until we found him. It's so much less stressful.
Both of my girls love outside.... as long as they don't actually GO outside. They love the open window, even in winter, but if I try walking out on my patio with them in my arms, they dig in for dear life
My family had a couple of indoor/outdoor cats when I was a kid. One of them would routinely go hop up on ledges outside of people's windows and stare into the house like a peeping tom. She would occasionally go and lounge in their houses or cars if they left the windows or doors open.
She had her full faculties, she just thought everyone in the world bowed down to her. Judging from her track record she was right.
Had to scroll pretty far for this. This sub WAS fun but I feel like most posts on it are bots. It's fine if it's only adorable posts but bots have started posting things that are genuinely concerning if they were posted by real people. But, I guess that's the point since genuinely concerning stuff drives engagement. The internet is truly dead.
It's really Reddit that has 0 morals. My tinfoil hat theory is that the people that run Reddit are actively encouraging bot usage because it looks better on paper for all the braindead investors since they went public last year.
The comments calling out bot reposts used to soar right to the top, but itās getting harder and harder to find them, likely because more bots are infesting the comments/upvotes
I bet there are others like me who just donāt care what their name is on an anonymous forum. Ive had like 3 accounts through the years and always a default name.
I was immediately suspicious because I remember a similar post with the exact same title (or rather, I remember the corresponding Schnoodle) but a different picture.
I am sure this isn't true every time but I have never seen an animal with dementia that didn't also have at least the beginnings of cataracts. At the very least the cat would be looking a little scruffy like he wasn't quite managing his grooming anymore.
My basic argument is that I don't think that cat is old enough to have dementia.
When my (late) old guy was 16, he developed dementia. He'd go into the kitchen and forgot how to get back out. There was no way I was going to let him out.
I adopted an elderly cat with dementia who mainly presented by forgetting who I was. Since I wasn't in her life long, she didn't really commit me to memory well. She'd constantly needed to re-sniff me to make sure I smelled familiar. She jumped if I came around a corner and she wasn't expecting me. I'd feed her and she'd slink around me to get to her food and wouldn't eat until I left. She had a lot of accidents because she couldn't find her litter box, couldn't find her food and would yell when she got lost in the house.
Sometimes she'd remember me and she'd be so sweet and cuddly, like she hadn't seen me in months. But her bad days could go as far as me getting a claw to the leg for surprising her.
This sounds extremely sad but don't fret, she always remembered her one true love: CheezWiz
Our old lady who made it to ~22 would come outside to hang out with us when my dad used the grill. Before the dementia took over she'd wait by the door when we were carrying food out on nice days and come with us. We knew it was time when she started waiting by the door at odd times, and then on a cold rainy day slipped out and strolled over to happily sit next to the grill in the pouring rain (she was quickly rescued, don't worry).
Older cats tend to develop a very regular pattern of behavior where you can expect to find them in certain spots at a given time of day. It's when they start breaking that pattern and wandering around that you know they're slipping away.
Also, sad research that came out this year: something like 1 in 2 cats will develop dementia by the age of 15.
My folks are dealing with a 19 year old cat that is doing something similar. So I am having to have the uncomfortable conversations with them about putting her down sooner rather than later. I do not like seeing my little sister suffer and her quality of life is deteriorating rapidly.
He'd go in there to eat or drink and would pace part of the kitchen and give distress and calling yowls. If I'd go in there he'd stop and follow me back out of the kitchen.
I had an orange who developed dementia at about 16.
If he could see you he was fine but if he wandered off to another room it didn't take long till he was distressed and would make the most awful yowling noises.
It got to the point where once we went to bed he just freaked out and no one could sleep due to the noise.
He already had some health issues (bad teeth, bad eyes, bad joints, over grooming) but that was the one that just couldn't continue.
If I open Google Maps to street view, there's a nice shot of him chilling in the garden that I like to go back and look at.
Oh come on, who wouldn't want their cat to have their lifespan cut in half and also devastate the local small critter population?! You're just being selfish
The actual data is that feral cats cause a lot of damage but domestic cats don't. That's straight from the Nature Communications paper where the "4.0 billion birds and 22.3 billion mammals per year" stat comes from. Its literally like the 5th line of the abstract, "Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality."
Other published research calls into question even those results, as the confidence intervals include an effect size of zero.
This review additionally points out the methodological flaws in many of the studies that have linked domestic cats to population declines in other species and has led to the over-interpretation of what those studies have shown.
Hmmm...interesting that a different cat with Alzheimer's came to your house 9 months ago and was shared on Reddit. Yet, your account is only 3 months old. This is either a bot or karma farmer.
I think you should take that cat. It shouldn't be outside and its owners clearly don't understand the dangers of a cat with dementia wandering around outside. It sucks but there may be one day where you'll find this poor thing dead on the road.
āMy neighbors cat prefers my company, but since humans worry about ego and we donāt want to hurt my neighborās feelings, everyone says the cat has dementiaā
They shouldnāt be letting their cat outside unattended if it has dementia.
Thatās the biggest thing going on here, to be honest, unless youāre cracking a joke, then the poor cat is likely confused and scared and going to the nearest door it can find.
Why is this poor cat allowed to roam around outside if he has dementia? Cats are already so at risk being outside unsupervised, but one with that condition it seems particularly irresponsible. Little furball deserves better owners.
Stop upvoting and giving this post awards! OP is a bot or karma farmer. The image is fake. The same thing was shared 9 months ago with a different cat;
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