Alright I've seen this being talked about a lot on here, so I finally decided to make a thread about it. Should you let your cat outside, should you not let your cat outside, it seems to be divided on here.
Well here are my thoughts on it. It depends on the situation for me. First of all let me start off by saying that we do not let our cat outside and that's for a few different reasons.
In 2014 our last cat escaped through the screen door so now when we have our patio open we make sure to have a barrier up (we use another glass screen) so the one we have now and have had for eight years now cannot get out.
So we have a fear of her running away and we have a fear of traffic since we live in the city and there are a lot of busy streets around here.
We also have other outdoor neighborhood cats around here and due to the fact that we got our cat from friends of the family where she was being beat upon we're also protecting her from them. (Injury wise though as she's up to date on her vaccinations.)
Now why don't we have her harness trained you might ask? Well for a few different reasons. The first reason should be obvious, cats are not dogs.
They don't need to go outside to be walked or to go to the bathroom. The second reason is she's not a door dasher and if we took her outside she might turn into one rather quickly if it turned out that she liked the outdoors.
The final reason is she is a rather lazy cat these days as she'll soon be approaching her senior cat years soon and we're pretty sure that she wouldn't like it. The walk would turn into a drag.
Plus it's like Jackson says in his video. We're selfish people for our cat. We want to know that she'll have a full lifespan (even though it's cut short already because of her heart murmur) and we don't have to worry about where she is and if she's still alive.
So that's the reason why we keep ours indoors. There's some more information in the video below. If you live in the country, I'm not against having barn cats. You just have to do what's best for you and your cat or cats.
Well here are my thoughts on it. It depends on the situation for me. First of all let me start off by saying that we do not let our cat outside and that's for a few different reasons.
In 2014 our last cat escaped through the screen door so now when we have our patio open we make sure to have a barrier up (we use another glass screen) so the one we have now and have had for eight years now cannot get out.
So we have a fear of her running away and we have a fear of traffic since we live in the city and there are a lot of busy streets around here.
We also have other outdoor neighborhood cats around here and due to the fact that we got our cat from friends of the family where she was being beat upon we're also protecting her from them. (Injury wise though as she's up to date on her vaccinations.)
Now why don't we have her harness trained you might ask? Well for a few different reasons. The first reason should be obvious, cats are not dogs.
They don't need to go outside to be walked or to go to the bathroom. The second reason is she's not a door dasher and if we took her outside she might turn into one rather quickly if it turned out that she liked the outdoors.
The final reason is she is a rather lazy cat these days as she'll soon be approaching her senior cat years soon and we're pretty sure that she wouldn't like it. The walk would turn into a drag.
Plus it's like Jackson says in his video. We're selfish people for our cat. We want to know that she'll have a full lifespan (even though it's cut short already because of her heart murmur) and we don't have to worry about where she is and if she's still alive.
So that's the reason why we keep ours indoors. There's some more information in the video below. If you live in the country, I'm not against having barn cats. You just have to do what's best for you and your cat or cats.