The same can be said for humans, but I'm not going to bar my kids from ever leaving the house because the world has danger in it.
I've had cats since I was married, which is nearly twenty years now. Our first kitty went missing after about eighteen months. Another kitty (her daughter) got hit by a car when she was 10 years old. We were also moving at the time, and we think the activity spooked her into unusual behavior.
Other than that, we've never had a single other kitty be injured, fall sick, or be killed because they lived outdoors.
“The same can be said for humans, but I’m not going to bar my kids from ever leaving the house because the world has danger in it.”
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Would you let small children go out without supervision? If so, then you shouldn’t have cats either.
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” Our first kitty went missing after about eighteen months. Another kitty (her daughter) got hit by a car when she was 10 years old.”
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Then you have two cats who perished because of your carelessness. Two cats lost or killed because they got outside are two too many.