[Secret Agent Man]

if you don’t give a crap bout following leash laws, dont’care your neighbors don’t want to hear you scream at the top of your lungs for your cats, have your cats get into fights with other cats, and crap and hunt in your neighbors’ yards, then yes it’s okay.

if you want to live by the golden rule and realize your don’t have a right to unleash your animal on other peoples’ property, much less you come walking over other peoples’ proprty looking for them and yelling for them, maybe realizing your behavior may not be appreciated by others, then no.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

We had an outdoor cat. We had a neighbor who complained so we kept him inside unless he was out with us. Next summer they began to complain about the mole population and what it was doing to their lawns.

We looked at each other and at our mole-less lawn and smiled.

[daniel1212]

if you don’t give a crap bout following leash laws, dont’care your neighbors don’t want to hear you scream at the top of your lungs for your cats, have your cats get into fights with other cats, and crap and hunt in your neighbors’ yards, then yes it’s okay.

I suppose it depends on where you life. A few years ago we adopted a stray that showed up, and lived on the second floor apt in a densely populated low income city.

I was not the real owner, but i did not want a kitty litter box and so i made a simple overhead small door that fit in the window in the kitchen cupboard. Then i ran a board about 4' to the porch, and trained the cat (w/ food of course) to come in and go out.

Well, this independent cat was a real predator, and went out and came in at his pleasure. But too often he brought mice, or birds or snakes back in with him. The look in his eyes when h had prey in his mouth!. Ate them all whole.

He had all his $hots, and the only problem is that he got an tooth infection after loosing a tooth in one of his fights i guess. Vet wanted $400 for oral surgery. I prayed and held the cat firmly, and punctured the puss after using hydrogen peroxide, just like i had done to myself before, and we prayed over him afterward. Cat was fine.

But the sounds he made the one time i gave him a bath!

The owner always fed him well, but ended up giving him away, yet our landlady has cats which go in and out, and one was over 15 last i heard.

But we had ours before rats became numerous. 8 of them out on trash night a couple of weeks ago.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“if you don’t give a crap bout following leash laws, dont’care your neighbors don’t want to hear you scream at the top of your lungs for your cats, have your cats get into fights with other cats, and crap and hunt in your neighbors’ yards, then yes it’s okay.”

I would love it if my neighbors had a cat that was outside. My garden wouldn’t be decimated by rabbits and stripped gophers.