If you want a toy go to Toys R us or any department store and buy a toy cat. There is a lot of models for all tastes. Soft cats, wind-up cats, small cats, big cats, etc. etc., even lions and tigers and panthers or elephants.
If you insist on a living creature, get an aquarium with red fish, or other colour.
Do not get a cat unless you really love cats and you are prepared to have a happy cat and your cat won't be happy if you keep it imprisoned. Cats are not children (unless they are kittens....) and they know how to care for themselves.
Are there risks? Yes, but there are risks for you too when you go outside. Would you prefer to live in a nice house but with never never going outside? If you stay inside, you won't be mugged, robbed, assaulted or violated in any way, you won't have arguments, won't meet unfriendly people (except on the internet), won't be harassed by bullies and neither will you be bullied by the police. No risk of being sent to Guantánamo or other torture centre in this age of loss of rights. So, would you prefer to stay inside for the rest of your life?
Only cat haters will recommend to let the cats locked and the use of techniques to force them to stop crying for freedom.
pets or toys?
Cats are not toys.
If you want a toy go to Toys R us or any department store and buy a toy cat. There is a lot of models for all tastes. Soft cats, wind-up cats, small cats, big cats, etc. etc., even lions and tigers and panthers or elephants.
If you insist on a living creature, get an aquarium with red fish, or other colour.
Do not get a cat unless you really love cats and you are prepared to have a happy cat and your cat won't be happy if you keep it imprisoned. Cats are not children (unless they are kittens....) and they know how to care for themselves.
Are there risks? Yes, but there are risks for you too when you go outside. Would you prefer to live in a nice house but with never never going outside? If you stay inside, you won't be mugged, robbed, assaulted or violated in any way, you won't have arguments, won't meet unfriendly people (except on the internet), won't be harassed by bullies and neither will you be bullied by the police. No risk of being sent to Guantánamo or other torture centre in this age of loss of rights. So, would you prefer to stay inside for the rest of your life?
Only cat haters will recommend to let the cats locked and the use of techniques to force them to stop crying for freedom.