This little guy has been visiting me at work almost every day for the last few weeks. He lives across the street and he comes running as soon as I pull up in the morning.

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[–] IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

As much as I agree, trying to keep indoor, a cat that's used to life outside, it's really hard, and may stress them out a lot.

Several years ago at my (then) house, we had a regular visitor that I called Neighbor. There was one winter in particular that was especially cold, so when he came to visit, I tried bringing him in to help him warm up, and he practically fought and cried the whole time. Of course after a few minutes of getting toasty, I let him go on about his routine.

I imagine doing that for an extended period of time would greatly stress the cat out in an unhealthy way.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago

Ya, I adopted an outside kitty, tried to make her an inside kitty. She would paw at the windows for 12 hrs a day, sleep, then go back to pawing at the windows. Wouldn't eat or groom herself.

I did however train her out of going after birds outside. I'd go out with her, and spray her with a water bottle whenever she got interested in a bird. It worked! She only ever brought rodent corpses home!