Originally Posted by shakran

Assuming you're telling the truth (I have my doubts because you already admitted you made stuff up), then you have wildly distorted expectations for the intelligence level of cats.

Cats do not think 50 steps in the future. Your cat will not think "Gee. If I tear the screen and then jump out the window and then it starts raining I'll get wet, and since I don't like that I guess I won't tear the screen."

Since cats do not have the cognitive skills to predict future negative outcomes to current actions, it is your responsibility to make sure the cat can't do those things which would cause the cat to suffer.

YOU left the window open. Not the cat. You, being human, presumably have sufficient intelligence to predict possible consequences. Assuming you were aware of opening the window, and assuming you remembered you have a cat, it shouldn't have been overly difficult to predict that the cat could jump out of an open window.

And now that you have failed to anticipate what your cat will naturally do, you want to punish the cat for your shortcomings by making it miserable for awhile.

That's not the action of a responsible pet owner, nor is it the action of a compassionate human being. Perhaps you SHOULD consider a pet-free life, if such a relatively mild transgression by your cat causes you to knowingly allow it to be miserable.

Originally Posted by Redlemon

...but if you only add files and you never delete, there's nothing to cause file fragmentation, so pattycakes is correct.