Goodreads Doesn't Have It, Data Migration: Adventure Cats
The idea that you can take cats outdoors is fantastic, because you can. They are not stunted. If you have a green personality cat, which I appreciate the comparison to MBTI as it helps you take care of your cat better, they absolutely love it and will basically walk you. So this is a very good book. However, some of this is just absurd. A small inflatable vest for your cat. Take your cat skiing. Seriously, this is not a child. It's good to love a cat like a child, but if you want a kid, have a kid. I get the whole climate change responsibility thing but if it's really that bad, teach your kid to survive climate change early. Something profoundly wants you to have children, lean into it as long as you're going to teach them to love the earth, survive climate change, know that they're probably going to profoundly suffer in climate change, and prepare them with skill for migratory disasters, scarcity war, famine, etc., effects and prepare them for that. If you intend to put someone on the earth with all the skills needed to help people with the effects of climate change, that is going to be 100% needed, but really ask yourself before having it, is that fair to the child? If you still want it and you really feel something is pulling to live and you're going insane buying expensive vests for you cat, you should probably give yourself some permission to at least try. It's not impossible if you absolutely are going crazy not having a child, it's not anybody else's decision to make and any attempt to do that is genocide. In either case, you should not be taking your cat skiing at any time. I'm not sorry. You're treating it like a human child. It can't keep up. It's doing its cat best, but it is not a human child.
This was helpful though for how cats when spooked will run away when otherwise they're completely consensual to be with you. They have different brains than humans, and aren't behaviorist like dogs. When they get punished, a dog will think "ooh I did a bad thing, hoom is right." They are more behaviorist. When a cat gets punished, they think, "How horrific of hoom, I don't care what your reason is, you made the decision to do this to me." They are very intelligent creatures, they know who does what and where it comes from. It's not dumb of a dog to be behaviorist, in fact they're little saints thinking Hoom is perfect and never gets punishment wrong which a cat knows they often do, but cats have a whole different brain. Same with human children. "Why you do this hoom" is a pretty consistent thought process in cats and small children, but cats are still dumb and get spooked and run away, basically cutting their life in half as cats living under car motors and stuff. They're happy to come back to their sovereign territory when you find them, but they are dumb and will do that and will stay there without active, calorically and adrenally expensive intervention (yes I have an adrenaline budget as part of PTSD).
Some of it is not possible to do as well. Knowing what is and isn't possible economically for the owner is part of somatic intelligence. Factor it in. Take the extra time to customize it. These are not human children. Stop getting neurotic like that, when oftentimes people take cats because they have been economically forced into that being the only thing they can afford. It's not ok at all to hold them to the standards of children and treat them like it's a child running away or something. That is seriously on the extremely mentally ill side.
I like that they helped you determine which type of personality the cats are. I have a green cat and a purple-orange cat. That helps me know why their behaviors are different, what to expect, and to prepare for different behavior sets. One size fits all would not allow me to make both cats have the happiest lives they can. Green cats are brave, like adventure, and when they can't get exercise and explore, get really attention seeking and pee on things. That is definitely my black cat. My other cat is purple-orange, chill and lazy, sometimes get jealous of the black cat's adventures and wants to join but on their own just a chill, lazy cat. However, she learned most of her behaviors, like petting owner Soviet Russia style where cat pets you, from the American short hair. I am absolutely certain she would not be like that unless she saw her/them do that first.
Cats that like the outdoors are great for disabled people because they need shorter walks but they still get you out of doors like a dog. My cat really likes to be outside and wants to stay longer obsessed with the outdoors. Sometimes my cat wants to walk too much and gets upset and attention seeking when they can't explore. It's like a dog, but without the extreme energy need that I can't handle after a lifetime that has left my body exhausted to the core through mainly unbelievable and unexplainable other-handicapping but some of it genetic as well.
Be careful with living things and give them full lives. Don't limit them. It's just not ok. It's not ok at all. My cats are both very happy cats with their owners, this book was right there to say, "I was just thoroughly spooked and overstimulated by the forest hoom, that is one of the issues with a cat brain that you don't understand." They get overwhelmed and thoroughly spooked and it feels like the mutual bond is gone, but it's just cat brain things. They're more sensitive to amygdala stuff than humans and can't override it, so the cat that walked with you without a leash no problem for half a mile, rubbing your leg and jumping into your arms suddenly acts like none of that was there. It freaks you out. It's cat brain things. This book was there to assure me immediately. Fyi, my cat came back, but damn that was abusive to Hoom and went way over my PTSD adrenaline budget. Now I'm thoroughly exhausted and in extreme pain. Fun times.
I also didn't know about hand sized disposable litter trays. Where do you get those, I need those.
Overall fantastic book. If you have a green or orange cat, they love camping and you should take them. Look out for mesh nets though. They don't mention tent type. Neither of my cats did well with the mesh net tent. You have to block out the source of overstimulation with a barrier once they're outside, you can't have a transparent barrier, it will really freak them out.
Suspicious activity: Published 2017, but Yoshi is fine on a leash. Can you imagine studying, doing things, just to be petulant and hurt a wide variety of loved ones all day, people who love you and have been threatened and harmed for sticking up for you at several points in your life? It's seriously horrifying. I'm not sorry. There is a cat Yoshi in this book who is fine on a leash, but it is claiming it is published in 2017. I specifically picked Yoshi because it is a niche name. Something is seriously up. I really think there is a serious disrespect to a critical system happening. It feels really bad on my body. Cats have a magnetic sense or something, I think I have that too at least partially. It feels really bad like something's up. If you can study something to hurt someone who loves you most thinking giving that narrative air will have no repercussions to the greater world, you are capable of profoundly disrespecting critical systems like the honest chronology, anti-fraud, anti-corruption and other systems. Can you imagine doing that much in your life just to stick it to the people who love you most? I feel like I'm going to be sick. I mean it. This is horrific. I mean it. I find this too suspicious.