I know you love your kitty, and are/will be a wonderful parent/owner to it, but I believe keeping a cat isolated inside, never to feel the green grass under it's feet, never to know the thrill of the hunt, is immoral.
Yes, I know the lifespan for outdoor cats is several years less than wholly-indoor cats, but it is the quality of those years that I think is important.
I see sadness in the eyes of my neighbor's cat as it sits in her window, watching my cats frolic, and I also acknowledge fulfillment in my cats when they stalk geckos or slink through my corn.
It's a quality of life thing, and a moral one: God created these beasts to hunt, kill, and eat prey. By imprisoning my cats, I feel like I am thwarting the design of God, Kinda like when i got my Mom's Pinto wagon up to 92 PH and the motor blew up: It is just not meant to be.
Also, my cats kill and eat cockroaches, and I HATE cockroaches.
Yes, we love our kitty, which is why we cannot let him go outside.....we don’t live in the country. We may allow him in our backyard, tethered....who knows. He was born a feral cat....and was probably the ONLY survivor of the litter....we like him too much. And, we don’t have the critters you have outside (cockroaches). He is PLENTY entertained inside, believe me. Plus, I really like the birds that come to our small backyard....and I know what a cat can do...I guess you just have to choose.
I’ve had both inside and outside cats. Some of them you just can’t keep in. My last cat was beloved by the neighbors because she terrorized the horde of chipmunks in their backyard. The chipmunks actually attacked and injured their
Labradoodle.
One day the cat left “presents” at both the front AND the back door. There was no way I could have ever kept her inside.