Ours are all indoors and have always been. I wouldn't have a moment's peace worrying about them wandering the streets and would probably have to follow them around if I let them out . Only if we lived someplace like Cyberfyn would I ever feel comfortable. I lived near a lake, at the end of a private road, down a very long driveway once, but only stayed there a couple of months so by the time I was ready to start letting the cats enjoy the woods, it was time to move back into town. For now, they get some supervised time outside since the garden is completely fenced (although Jezebel figured out how to climb it yesterday, that little minx!). They have a huge house, lots of windows to look out of and toys and each other to play with. They all seem perfectly content.

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My babies
Aber, Ragnar, Kelso (the corgi trio), Daisy (our rescue mystery-mix puppy), Ellie, Henry, Gwennie, Jezebel (the kitty quartet), Blake, Chaucer, Molly and Milton (the kittens), and Bingo the African Grey parrot

Over the Bridge:
Pippin: 1/6/08-17/5/11
Freja: 11/8/10-30/10/10
Kirby: 11/8/10-1/11/10

"Praise liberty/The freedom to obey/It's a song that strangles me/Well, don't cross the line" Billie Joe Armstrong

I keep rumble indoors because theres fairly busy road just outside my front door, with ambulances buzzing up and down at all hours (i live close to a hospital)

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Mine are all 100% indoor, I live in the middle of a triangle that are a main road, train track & a canal. No thanks I'm not worrying myself sick about anything happening to them.

Originally I was only going to have ferrit who's too shy & is scared to go outside thankfully. Then I took in baby girl who was a stray but she's never even tried to go outside since I got her & her kitten chinny is just like the other 2, completely not interested.

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The more people I meet, the more I like animals...

As I have said many times before,there is just nothing in the outdoor world that I see as a "must have " for my cats,nothing ,that is, to make me take any chances with their safety.Traffic,dogs,other cats,poisoning,attacks by thugs,air rifles the list is too long for me to ever consider subjecting them to the risks.They have all been perfectly happy with life indoors,after all they have never been outside so how can they miss something they dont know exists.

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Molly doesn't have a choice! We live in a top floor flat and I wouldn't trust her with a key to let herself come and go

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My cats are outdoors since they have a huge garden and I have never lost a cat to our road outside.

Since our traffic is only when people go to work or come back from work and they normally inside eating or sleeping at that time.

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Have: 4 Cats 3 Dogs currently
Have had: 6 cats

Dogs: German Shepherds
Cats: Ginger Tabby & Torbies

RIP: Ducati, Cheetah, Joy, Claire & Sapphire - Torties
Chloe - Black & White

Spock was an outdoorsy sort, but then we lived in a tiny ground floor studio flat so keeping him in would have been cruel. We left the window open and he came and went as he pleased. When we moved to our new flat we had enough space for an indoor kitty but thought it would be mean to keep him in when he loved outside so much. Within a couple of weeks of letting him out for the first time he'd been run over and killed.

Iccy, therefore, lives inside. He has a constantly circulating array of toys, we hide things around the place for him to find and he's quite happy with this arrangement. He's never been out, which I think makes things easier.

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Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will p*ss on your computer.

The Story So Far:
Spock (2010-2011), who began our love affair with kitties but whose grasp on the green cross code was sadly lacking.
Icarus (2011-...?), who loves noses more than anything else.
Mildred (2010-...?), who sings to the birds.

The twisted brainwrong of a one-off man mental.

In my opinion it should be a decision made by a cat not by human. In my kittys case they hated my large 2 bedroomed flat, they had 4 feet tall cat tree and literally hundreds of toys. I took them on a walk for at least one hour, every day, in the harness, but the minute we came back - they were crying and jumping on the windows, I could not bare it.

So we had to move (as we lived next to railway track).

Now the kittys are happy, I forgot how they meow, I keep them indoors only during the night, they still sleep at home during the day.

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