and here it is on DU tonight.

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We adopted him about eight months ago and he is the sweetest thing, but he is also a murdering bastid. Birds, squirrels, mice, bugs, you name it. He has a cat-door and has brought a mouse and squirrel in to play with. We found the mouse dead, but the squirrel managed to escape back out the cat-door when my yelling distracted our little orange monster.

Thank you for the funny, but cruel reality, apparently our boy is normal after all. I do put a bell on him in the morning and then take it off at night so he won't be vulnerable to other creatures.

Love the Oatmeal.

Go back into the archives, lots of great stuff there.

etc (things like that that have gotten inside the house).

are hell on wildlife including songbirds. Housecats belong in the house. Letting them out at night is bad for the wildlife and bad for the cats.

Cats kill huge numbers of songbirds and other native creatures. A lot of people think it's cruel to keep a cat indoors, but the environmental havoc they wreak when left to roam outdoors is well documented.

ETA - "Great minds...," Drahthaardogs.

and well adjusted, they don't even express a desire to go outside, they are much safer inside. I live on a very busy street and they would be long dead, run over if I had ever allowed them outside.

I protect the birds from him with fencing around garden features that attract them. He stays in at night cuz the coyotes would have him for dinner.