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MercenarySnake said:
Implying all cats are house cats. In my area there are cats that have been living on the street surviving but of course I'm not an expert on cats or animals. :shrug:
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Don't fuck with this cat. He'll fuck you up no problem
 
MercenarySnake said:
Implying all cats are house cats. In my area there are cats that have been living on the street surviving but of course I'm not an expert on cats or animals. :shrug:
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I'm sort of referring to cats in general as house-cats, just to differentiate them to other species of wild cats. I really don't see cats, feral or otherwise, surviving where numerous other species haven't. Then again it's hard to tell, we know squirrels have survived, as have crows, but there is no sign of other small animals. Plus, there brings that fact that the games are limited by hard/software, and are not a truly accurate picture. It's hard to know for certian.
 
IndignantHedgehog said:
Eh, no more shitty than any other. I seriously don't see house-cats surviving in any other way.
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Keeping a pair of cats in a vault is a recipe for disaster. Catsplosion is a real and extremely well studied phenomenon, that can cause thermonuclear explosion under the right circumstance. All overseers should be aware of the security risk that involve the presence of cats in a vault, and should take appropriate counter-measure.
 
Why would cats go extinct? Cats are pretty much everywhere on the American continent and in great numbers, I would expect house cats to exist, in some form, before I would animals with a smaller range and smaller population size. Honestly, larger creatures would be way more adversely impacted -- large animals need more food and resources, which would be in small supply; and, for herbivores, that means lots of potentially contaminated plants, for predators, contaminants move up the food chain and accumulate (and in the case of cats, mice and rats are also small and wide spread, so their food source should be rather abundant).

Assuming that 10,000 bombs were dropped, unless they were dropped using an extremely extremely sophisticated model of fallout maximization (over all area, not over strategic area -- in other words, if they were dropped in a way contrary to destroying important targets), then it is almost impossible that there weren't decent pockets of uncontaminated rural land (especially if we are considering all of North America). Again, cats and mice are everywhere, so they would have been in these areas, thus, surviving.

As for House, how would he know? It's not like he can really travel about and check, or phone others all around the nation and find out -- and, really, how much of his time do you think he truly devoted to this (in other words, even if some cats were around in places he could know about, would he waste time to make sure).

Finally, Even if they survived, nothing entails that they would be wide spread; it isn't likely that cat packs would form and spread out, they would most likely cluster around nearby human habitats, spreading with them (humans civilization attracts mice, which, in turn, attracts kitties).

*Ultimately, of course, this is up to the creator, but cats are, probably, quite far down on the list of things that would go extinct in a nuclear war -- then again, Fallout nukes seem to be a little bit magical (actually, a lot), so maybe their radiation just really hates cats:p
 
Just a point here, but we are assuming that everyone in the world is automatically struggling to eat. Say hypothetically, a group of survivors sealed themselves up near a Cattle Ranch, obviously they aren't going to be struggling on a day to day basis as much as someone stuck in downtown Boston. Maybe there were people who weren't struggling to survive, so simply kept there cats with them for companionship.
 
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