“dogs aren’t allowed to roam free, why should cats?”
Maybe dogs aren’t “allowed” to roam free, but many do. In our neck of the woods in Tennessee, pet owners are the worst I’ve ever seen, and I’ve lived all over the country including Alaska and Hawaii. We’re in a “good”, semi-rural neighborhood and dogs are everywhere.
We have cats (feral, rescued, spayed, tamed) and they’re 100% indoor cats. We have to contend with neighbor dogs’ feces all over the yard and roads. (Did you know that dogs, as well as cats, poop?) Although we don’t have any, we love dogs and one of our biggest fears is that we’ll back a car over one of them one day. The owners are dispicable to risk their pets’ lives the way they do.