I enjoyed. But they are all OUTDOOR cats. Of our three, two live inside, and the third's route is well known to us as she never leaves our yard. Ever. I would love to know what the indoor cats do all day.

I'm looking forward to seeing the Horizon documentary on the BBC iPlayer this weekend. I don't think Lucy goes very far from home, at least not during the day, but she does go out a lot at night and I've no idea what she gets up to or where she goes then.

Bearwife, indoor cats are pretty rare in the UK, I guess mostly because there aren't many predators that go for cats here. The only ones I've come across are FIV+ and kept inside because of fear of infection. I think in an average village you won't find more than one or two indoor cats.

I liked the Horizon programme, Senyar - so many cute affluent pampered cats. Not sure it's all that scientific though.

bearwife, having been un- and under-employed for a year now, with both my now-departed geriatric cat and my new 10-month-old kittens, I am 100% secure in saying that indoor cats spend all day sleeping, with a few occasional five-minute breaks for eating or staring out the window until they are sleepy again.

I credit that, occhiblu. There isn't much action on the days I'm home with them, or for that matter much happening per my Bear's report and he is home lots due to being happily retired.

One of the reasons I am convinced our cat that does go outdoors is as stupid as a cat can be is her inability to conceive of being anywhere but on our front lawn, on the hood of my car, or on our roof. She isn't out at night, either, when I gather the most exciting cat adventures of normal intelligence cats occur.

Now that the person is working from home, or as I call it, doing things other than paying attention to me at home, I divide my time between hanging out with her in whatever room's she's in and spending time by myself in other areas of the house. I'd say it's a seventy-thirty split. Wherever I am, I alternately nap, play with whatever fun stuff I can find (I especially like things that are kept put away in the cupboards now that I can open them all), or keep an eye on what's happening outside the house via the windows.

Sometimes the person goes outside without me. I very much do not like that. I speak my mind about how much I don't like that for five minutes, and if that doesn't bring her back I find something else to do to work off my temper and to occupy my time, such as racing up and down the first floor hallway to annoy the tenant.

One of the reasons I am convinced our cat that does go outdoors is as stupid as a cat can be

So she's staying very near the source of food and affection, and away from the drama-llamas? Sounds like you have an A+ cat to me. :-)

One of our cats, Mr. Whitey Ford, has no interest in the out of doors at all. Since he broke into our house more than a decade ago he has been more than content with a big sunny porch, tuna for breakfast, and The Big Scratchy Red Wool Blanket.

The other cat, Mr. Kitty Kat, is only interested in outside in that he feels he owns all he can see and he likes to think if he were out there he would kill, bugs, birds, school children, letter carriers, meter readers, squirrels and most all other cats (sexy female cats do get a pass. But then he pines when they don't come back).

We are going to watch this tomorrow.

Oddly, Whitey has jumped up on the arm of my chair and is making sad lonely sounds in his small raspy voice.