This is Bird Note.

There is strong debate about whether pet cats should be kept indoors or allowed to roam freely.

But outdoor cats killed billions of birds each year in North America, and they live much shorter lives than indoor cats.

That's why cat behaviorists, like Animal Planet's Jackson Galaxy,

advocate for keeping our cats indoors.

At the same time, that does take away from their lives in a pretty significant way.

They wake up every morning, needing to go and kill something.

So what do we do?

Jackson says it's essential to enrich the life of an indoor cat.

And first on the list is committing to a play regimen with them.

Not just waving a wand around.

It's about committing to the game.

You're role-playing, you know, it's method acting.

You are a mouse.

You are a bird.

Get into it.

Just 15 minutes of play can make a huge difference in your cat's life.

Next up is enhancing their indoor environment.

We start with the concept of cat TV, makes the windows a destination.

Put bird feeders near the windows.

You're giving them that ability

to sort of passively engage

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