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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davy Crockett" data-source="post: 232772" data-attributes="member: 367">I grew up with at least 2 barn cats and one inside cat all my life.  if you live out in the country you will either have mice in your house or garage or a cat.    Indoor cats won't kill anywhere close to what an outdoor cat does if you let them out during the day they stay close to home, If you let them out at night they will roam.   Have only had one declawed cat and it lasted about a year and something got it, Wasn't that good of a mouser anyway.  We prefer to have the litter box down in the basement in an unfinished storage room and the food upstairs .  Most of what I have read says keep food and litter box together but I don't want the cat shitting up stairs and I don't want to go down in the basement to feed it and they adapt well.  I've never found cat shit in the house ever. Buy or build a scratching post and get some liquid spray catnip and spray it down and the cat should start scratching on it almost right away.  Keep a flyswatter and a balled up pair of socks handy and smack it good if it sharpens its claws on furniture.    Cats are easy to train. One good smack is all it takes for respect unlike dogs that you can beat the shit out of with no positive results.   A bed close to the scratching post and toy that it likes. Our present cat turned his nose up at every toy except for a mouse that makes a squeek that I can not hear so I take my wifes word for it .  When the instincts kick in He will beat the crap out of the mouse and he can throw it across the room and then pounce on it.   They are smart animals and by far the least maintenance of any pets I have ever had.  We have a self feeder and waterer and two large litter boxes , We have left cats home alone for 2 or 3 weeks and they did just fine.      They like a shelf where they can lay and see outside.    My 2 ¢ about dogs is that they make great pets if you have the time, Space and patients to train ,care for and watch over them.  And understand a dog's behavior depending on the breed you choose.    A relative stopped in one spring for a visit and let two high energy bird dogs out to run and shit all over my yard.  I didn't know they had let the dogs out till I saw them running and We had pheasants and ducks nesting right in the yard and I told him I didn't want the dogs running loose .   Ohh they won't hurt or get into anything was the reply.   After about an hour they finally loaded up the dogs and left  That was the end of the pheasants and the ducks.   I'd love to borrow those two town dogs and put  a collar camera on them and let them recreate what they did on video and present it to NDGF .    My cat kills mice,voles,pocket gophers and other small critters but very seldom a bird and if it does it's most likely because the cat has been laying in the raised strawberry bed  waiting patiently.</blockquote>

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