>>C'mon, no animal lover smiles at the sight of a dead cat. The truth is, though, that cats kept outside have a significantly shorter life then inside cats due to traffic and disease. All these facts about cats and ecology just add more credence to the argument that cats should be kept inside. If you want an animal to control rodent populations in an area, I guarantee you that a couple of bullsnakes would handle the job admirably.

Yeah the bull snakes would be great if I lived out in the country but I live in a rural area where neighbors are close together so the Bullsnakes wouldn't be an option. One sighting from the guy next door and they would be a couple of dead snakes. I've already jumped on him once about chopping the head off of a blind opossum. As far as the cats I just had a cat die that lived outside all her life. She died at the age of 18. So I don't agree that outside cats live shorter lives. Matter of fact most of all my cats that I have raised were outside cats and lived longer than their predicted lifespan.

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