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  • Ozymati@lemmy.nz
    1·
    11 months ago

    Cars, aggressive dogs, fights with other cats, humans who hate cats, toxic garden plants…

    • livus@kbin.social
      21·
      11 months ago

      None of that produces anything like the American stats though (which tend to say lifespan for indoor cats is 15 and outdoor cats is 3 years).

      By contrast, most vets I have talked to put the average lifespan for all pet cats in Aotearoa at around 15, and this tallies with my experience.

      The majority of cats in NZ are “indoor/outdoor”. We have one of the highest cat ownership rates at about 40% of households.

      I myself have owned cats that lived into their 20s.

      I think cars and dogs are likely to affect stats a little, but I’ve never run into any trouble with toxic plants or criminals!

      • Ozymati@lemmy.nz
        2·
        11 months ago

        Still, cat’s safer indoors or only outdoors daytime. I see lost cat posts more often than I’d like to.

        • livus@kbin.social
          2·
          11 months ago

          Definitely. Vets especially recommend keeping them in at night, because that’s when most of the fighting takes place.