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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2025-02-06 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] channelpenguin 2025-02-06 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
In the USA, there's an opinion (though I don't know how widespread) that cats should be kept 100% indoors and only taken out if trained to a harness and lead*. Some cat shelters won't let you adopt cats unless you agree that they won't go outside!

*Totally possible. I did this with Felix when he was young and it was the only way he went outside until he was neutered at 6 months. Even though he was a feral farm cat to start with. The experience of cat on a lead is not at all like with a dog though.

** Felix is a happy free-roaming country cat now, with a cat flap, but still hangs out in the house a lot
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[personal profile] jducoeur 2025-02-07 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)

Some cat shelters won't let you adopt cats unless you agree that they won't go outside!

Yep -- this was the case for all four of my cats. Works quite well provided you adopt them young.