Are your cats Indoor, Outdoor, or Both?

[RabbitMage]

Indoor only, exclusively, no exceptions. IMO, it's just as irresponsible to let a cat roam outside as it is to let a dog roam outside.

 

[joedie]

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What neighbors? Bad for the cats? I'm sure mine have a much better life i.e. not starving, not one of the 70 plus cats/kittens in the local kill shelter.

 

[jerseygirl1]

Yup

Mine were all strays found at various sights in NY/NJ and they are much better off here than anywhere else.

 

[Morgan7782]

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What neighbors? Bad for the cats? I'm sure mine have a much better life i.e. not starving, not one of the 70 plus cats/kittens in the local kill shelter.

amen to that! There are some kids running around this neighborhood and too bad there is no quick fix for that. I would love to live trap them and send them to the orphanage lmao. My cats do not bother any of my current neighbors, but I will always have outside cats. Hopefully soon I will be in a much more rural area, just for the sake of less cars. I just don't get the strictly indoor cat thing lol, bizzare to me.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

Sassy was a pregnant stray we kept. She's indoor outdoor, so is her daughter Chloe. And our adopted cat, which was a "failed foster" (lol), she is indoor only, as when she was about a week old she had pneumonia pretty bad, to where her heart actually stopped and I got it beating again on the way to the vet, and I think that did a little brain damage. She's a little kooky.

I would prefer to keep them all in all the time, but Sassy and Chloe will NOT have it. They stay close to home anyway, laying in the flower gardens, on the deck, or on top of the brooders.

 

[NellaBean]

I have a single indoor only cat. He has tons of medical problems so would have to stay inside no matter what.....but after losing an outdoor cat to FELV, we learned to always keep them in. I even converted a rough and tumble angry tomcat into an indoor only cat.....he is fat and sassy and not missing the outside life at all.

 

[Jamie_Dog_Trainer]

I have one outdoor only cat. He started off as indoor only, then when we moved to our property he became indoor/outdoor. He started peeing all over our house when my DD was born. So now he's only outside. He is neutered and keeps moles, mice, rats and shrews out of our house or yard.

 

[ladycrotalus]

Kilala- My aunt found her as a kitten in an alley and gave her to me. She has no interest whatsoever in going outside.

Tsume- I adopted him from the local animal shelter when he was 8 weeks old. His mom was caught and had the kittens at the shelter. I leash trained him early on and i just have to hold up his harness and he comes running over and lets me put it on him. When he was younger he got out a few times but there are lots of coyotes that live in the woods behind my house and i don't want him to get eaten.

Mugen- I found down the road a bit, anemic from the fleas, and very skinny. Got him fixed up. He only wants outside if i am outside. He is a very needy cat, quite the pain in the butt actually. Follows me everywhere. He followed me out a couple times then a car went by and he ran back up on the porch and yowled at the door to be let back in. When i found him the vet said he was 5 months old so he was clearly on his own for a bit.

Tabitha Twitchet- My aunt never got her cats fixed and gave my mom a kitten. She wanted her to be an indoor/outdoor cat but everytime she let her out she freaked out and wanted back in. Then she gave her to me and i am keeping her as indoors only.

I had 2 indoor/outdoor cats. Butterscotch and her daughter Shades. Both died at the age of 12, Butterscotch went first then a year later Shades went. Every night i would call them inside because i would worry and not get much sleep if they were outside. Even though i had no say in the quality of food they ate and having to let them outside when they wanted out, i knew that they could be road kill or animal food. Now that i am financially responsible for the 4 i got now, they are remaining indoors.

My neighbor has a "barn" cat that is always over here. She is a real pain in the rear end. Sleeping on my rabbits hay, trying to get inside, making my moms dog angry, slipping in between my feet as i am carrying hay bales or 50# bags of feed to my poultry or bunnies making me trip. They never spayed her so she had 4 kittens. They gave away 3 of them and the 4th, a lil boy, follows his mum over here and he also annoying. They have friendly personalities and i would really hate to see them as roadkill or fox and yote food. i hate how they have decimated the local chipmunk population and the wild birds never stay at my feeders for long anymore because of them.

Another reason i keep my cats indoors. http://www.sniksnak.com/trnp/menu.html
Then there was that bout in florida where peoples cats were being killed in their own yards by some psycho.

 

[3chimama]

We have several cats who help keep the mice out of our grain bins and such...they also get to come in and play/take naps inside...they are put out at night because we do not want to have litter boxes in our house.

 

[Frosty]

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So I guess I should lock the cats up... then the neighbors would only have to worry about the RATS from the grain elevator 1/4 mile down the road.