I decided when I adopted a stray kitten to make it an indoor only cat.
I get annoyed when someone’s cat craps in my yard or has kittens under my shed, or defiles the inside of my boat. Makes me want to strangle the cat and owner. So keeping my cat home prevents it from damaging someone’s property and keeps it from getting killed by an irate property owner. Not to mention the whole squashed cat on the highway thing.
Yes, We have always kept ours indoors too, and for the same reasons.
My Squeek was strictly an indoor cat but would venture out onto the deck as far as the bottom step....
From there she would occasionally see and catch a vole then bring it back into the house and release it......LOL!
She recently had to be put down and I miss her.........