Deballing

Well, spaying was all about females. To shake off the burden of offsprings. Yet even the cutest Tomcat, confined to a condominium or turned into a new species of "indoor cats" (see it on cat food packages?) is compelled by its nature and Nature to mark its territory. Voila. Moreover, it also wants a girlfriend. That's all quite natural, isn't it?

But humans want it their way, and they resort to castrating their pets thus turning them into obese creatures harmless in terms of smell and romance. How reasonable is that, do you think?

Let us try to be reasonable. There are no indoor cats, indoor dogs, indoor men and women. Of course you can retort that office workers are since they only have a short drive every morning and evening and spend the rest of the day and night indoors. But the fact is they are not supposed to be indoor animals. They are supposed to see the sky and enjoy the fragrances of the land, to feel the cool breeze and hear the unstoppable chorus of living beings around them. Thus a condo is no place for a cat. Nor a dog. I'd even venture to say for Wo/Man. Try a goldfish instead.

I wonder why animal rights activists are oblivious to the evident torture that millions of cats are suffering from. Prison inmates have a right for motion and exercise. What about cats-turned-prisoners?

Thus a cat must have his or her territory to live on. Of course it might be ignorant of your property boundaries and could claim a larger chunk of land. Well, it's his problem. If it claims a part of youir neighbour's land, you may very well inform your neighbours of the favour they owe you and your pet.

The point is when your cat goes on regular marking rounds, he is protecting both you and the people next door from a host of positively negative creatures. Those lawn-unfriendly guys like moles, rats, mice and a bunch of others can smell the marks and would very likely stay away from your property. They know better what the smell means.

Some stores sell granulated urine to do the same. You take granules of coyote and fox wee and spill it around your lawn. The terror-stricken pests are retreating in panic. You are happy unless you overdo with spilling then the smell would definitely ruin your lawn party. You don't want your friends to retreat in panic, do you?

But you may run out of the stuff, or the store may run out of it, or you may just forget that you should do it again before the smell expires, the result is always the same - the hordes of pests re-occupying your plot.

Do you think your cat doing the same job EVERY DAY and absolutely FREE for you and your neighbour deserves praise rather than castrating?

And it also deserves good food. We are what what we eat. What about cats?

You are right. It's a separate topic to discuss. So you may want to go to the next page:

We all are what we eat

But the marking