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Letting your cat out is so region specific. Where I am, if you restricted your cat to being an indoor cat, you'd be side eyed for being some sort of animal abuser.

(We obviously don't have coyotes around here. I'm not even sure if we have any wild animal around who would be a threat to cats.)

true. Lots of places don't have coyotes.

So you're gonna let your cat get run over by a car? Also, they're terrible ecologically; they'll murder anything they can get their paws on.

Lots of areas (more outside the US) are pretty safe traffic-wise as well.

And the local wildlife?

Not to mention the cats go and crap on other people's gardens and vegetable beds. Keep your goddamn fucking fleabitten shitting machine indoors.

Ayrt

Knowing dozens of cat owners, I don't know a single person who lost a cat to a car accident. The cats are cautious of the street and cars aren't going that fast and break when a cat is on the street (not full stop emergency breaking, but slowing down which gives the cat time to get off the street).

I live on the busiest street in my town and I see at least 3-4 cats roaming about anytime I leave the house, but I have yet to see a run over cat.

The wildlife thing is very true, but here it's seen as normal. Cats are predators, it's in their instincts to hunt. Stopping them from exercising those instincts is partly why indoor cat owners would be side eyed here.

It's different in cities, cats are mostly kept indoors there. But in towns like mine or villages? Cats are usually expected to be allowed to roam outside, if they aren't strictly outside cats to begin with.

Those poor cats.

Letting non-native, domesticated animals wreak havoc on the local ecosystem whilst also getting exposed to parasites, disease, predators, unkind or pragmatic humans, and the lure of the warm engine block is just the sign of a good pet owner. We’ll ignore the vast amount of data available from every continent where cats are commonly

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Reading that people just let cats outdoors willy-nilly while my 16 yr old ragamuffin snores next to me is heartbreaking.

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I expect you to get a lot of pushback on this, from people who don't want to accept that a cat is a hunter and the fact that humans exercising absolute power over every aspect of their animals' lives is not necessarily something animals want or percieve as a kindness.

Pet ownership in the west has become an out of control human power fantasy, IMO. But I agree with what you're doing and I think your cats are probably pretty happy, even if people who never let their animal set foot outside can't imagine that.

It's not about that. It's about the fact that for most of the planet domestic cats are an invasive species. They absolutely wreck the local ecosystem when left unsupervised. It's our responsibility as pet owners to limit the impact of our pet cats on the environment. If you find that cruel, don't have a pet cat.

That doesn't even get into the parasites and whatnot that I'm sure your cats just loooooove being infected with....

... wild animals aren't the only threat to cats, anon. I know someone who accidentally killed someone's cat because he left his shed open while he was doing yardwork, the cat slipped into his shed to nap because it was hot outside, and then he closed up the shed when he was done and didn't open it until the next weekend because he had no idea that there was a cat in there.

People who want to run away because they think not micromanaging the life of your pets in exactly the prescribed way is evil are behaving irrationally enough that I don't miss their company. And I doubt you will.

Signed, someone who's heard a disconcerting amount of rage from vegans about how having a cat at all and providing it (an obligate carnivore) with meat makes you a depraved murderer.

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