Hi George,I'm Fred and I live with Ginger (who is ginger) and with Ben who is black and doesn't like us younger cats very much. My hunting ground is across the road from where I live, and where the cars are parked. I find the cars handy for hiding under when strangers pass by. So I pop back and forward across the road most days and most nights.
Why does my human worry about this? I know there is traffic. I kind of don't bother about cars. What are they? Nothing much to me. What is this human anxiety about, George? I don't get it.
Love
Fred
Dear Fred,
You right, you don't get it. Neither do I. These metal objects that hurtle down the roads are very mysterious. Most of the time during the day, you and I can manage to avoid them. The speed they do, however, is very confusing. I mean, nothing in nature hurtles along at 50 miles an hour. We cats were designed to avoid big predators like wolves or lions. We are not designed by nature to cope with metal boxes like cars.
At night we don't even have the right kind of eyes for it. Car headlights dazzle us. We can't judge how fast the car is coming at us. We can't see it properly. So most of us just make a run for it. Which is what worries our human pets. They fear we may get killed (as lots of cats do). Of course, if we had them properly under control, we would just ban all cars. But even that might threaten our catfood supplies.
It's tricky. I love hunting at night. I love the moonlit stalk. The pounce in the shadows. Yet crossing the road is a horrible danger. Make your human keep you in at night.
Love George
PS. Posts may be a bit erratic. My secretary's partner is in hospital, so she is spending a lot of time with him instead of doing her duties.
Fred, George is right; stay in at night, especially if you live on a busy street.
ReplyDeleteHugs
Fluffy & Cayenne
PS. George, please give our love to Celia.
Hope everything is ok.
Busy street, lots of traffic?
ReplyDeleteCrossing the road? That's a big NO-NO!
Find yourself a territory with no cars.
It's safer this way :-)
Love
Minnie
After living 1 year on the streets....I feel safe as an indoor cat! Not that I'm not tempted to "jump" outside (at least in the backyard) but we live very close to a busy road.
ReplyDeleteBetter safe then sorry!
Frederico
Dear Fred,
ReplyDeleteI was abandonned and lived on the streets for about 2 years. I was rescued and now I live a happy life in a condo!
Cars can be terrible things. Don't even go near them. Stay in your garden.
Love
Shumba
George, please give my regards and best wishes to Celia.
ReplyDeleteFred, tell your humans that there are some good "cat enclosures" for gardens. Tell them to get a copy of "Your Cat" (published in UK) and they can find lots of models there.
Sir Winston
Hey, Fred.....you look a lot like me!
ReplyDeleteForget crossing that awful, "car crowded" road!
Better find something different to amuse yourself.
Porthos
Brrrr! A road with bumper to bumper cars!
ReplyDeleteBetter tell your humans to get you some videos for cats and stay in watching movies!
You'll probably get fatter but at least you are safe.
Cheetho
This is how I lost my sweet Oscar Snuggles. Don't cross the road.
ReplyDeleteWe get shut in at night and it sucks. But it sucks much less than having a fight with a car.
ReplyDeleteWe hope that your secretary's partner gets well soon.
Whicky Wuudler