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09-01-2012, 02:03 PM
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would you let friendly cat outside?
I am just curious...
I don't let my cats outside for various reasons even tho the male cat (neutered) likes to be outside a lot (on a leash in our yard when supervised) and he is super friendly and completely unaffraid of anything - even the vet commented he has never seen a cat being so relaxed and calmed at the vets with all those smells and sounds before...He is bomb-proof and very very nosy but is too lively to sit in your lap... The reason why I am asking this question really is because my relatives asked me why i don't let at least him outside because he is so lively and enjoys outdoors...But I honestly could never do this...It isn't that I am affraid of him getting run over (I am) but I am far more worried because he is so friendly and I fear of what people might do to him cause he approaches everyone...And this is just something I cannot get my relatives to understand... Maybe I am parranoied but it is because a few years back there were a couple of high school kids in our country who tortured and killed more than 100 cats nad kept diaries of these actions and were consequently charged but never punished (it was quite well covered by the media here)...And of course they picked up cats they could get - ie the friendly ones... So there really isn't a point to this question but for the ones who let your cats out - are they friendly to strangers? Or do you somehow teach them not to approach unknown people? As said my cats are indoors (except the semi-feral one that I am feeding and have had her spayed but she definetely avoids people so no worries there) and will continue to stay indoors but I was just wondering wether the cats that are let outside are friendly to strangers...(I don't want this to be an indoor outdoor debate, I am purely genuinely interested in the friendlines/unfriendliness towards strangers bit) Thanx  Last edited by Mici; 27-02-2012 at 04:25 PM.. 
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09-01-2012, 02:20 PM
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Re: would you let friendly cat outside?
I don't let my girls out, one reason being that they are both breeding queens. One is very shy but the elder one is very, very friendly and I do think she would happily go off with someone if she was an outdoor cat.
What a horrible thing to have happened to the cats in your area Mici  - I don't blame you for one minute for not wanting to let your cat outside. I don't think you can teach cats who it is safe to approach, they're either friendly or not
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09-01-2012, 02:20 PM
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Re: would you let friendly cat outside?
My Ragdoll Meeko ,although he has a split personallity,he loves people and is also bomb proof,but with that comes disadvantages.He would,I'm sure, get himself into all kinds of dangers if allowed to go outdoors,stuck in tight spaces/shut in sheds and all sorts of other situations that cats should avoid,he is far to nosey for his own good.I dont for one minute think you are paranoid,just not willing to risk an avoidable accident,neither am I
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09-01-2012, 02:35 PM
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Re: would you let friendly cat outside?
No I wouldn't. I have a 4 month old BSH boy and I don't think he'll ever be going outside for 2 reasons. They are a generally laid back breed and i think he's far too friendly and silly to be aware of the dangers. Also it is quite obvious he's an expensive pedigree so a target for theives.
In my opinion you are doing the right thing. If anything happened to him it would be on your conscience. It is you who would have to deal with it and not your family. Do what your head is telling you.
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09-01-2012, 02:36 PM
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Re: would you let friendly cat outside?
We let Max out. He's miserable if he doesn't have the option to go out, and if he does have the option he doesn't stay out long.
He is friendly but as soon as you do something he don't like he'll bite and run. Fast. We've trained him not to bite us, although sometimes he still does have a nip, but I know that if it was a stranger as soon as they crossed the line he wouldn't be so friendly. I can see why you would be worried. Can you cat proof your garden at all?
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09-01-2012, 02:45 PM
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Re: would you let friendly cat outside?
Both of our youngest cats are very friendly and will talk to anyone so, for that reason, they are kept as strict indoor cats.
Merson is very stand-offish and won't even talk to the neighbours if they call him. The same neighbours who feed him whenever we are away!!!   So I don't worry about him going off with anyone. Although, with hindsight, I would never have introduced him to the great outdoors and should have kept him as an 'innie'. I'd be much happier that way.  Oscar stays in the garden so he is quite safe.
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09-01-2012, 02:49 PM
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Re: would you let friendly cat outside?
No, I wouldn't let my friendly cat out.
My boy will talk to anyone, he used to love the outdoors but also loved his indoor comforts. He is very accident prone, and would get into vans, on trailers, and come home with all sorts of bumps and cuts. He is now an indoor boy, and he is still accident prone. I don't want him driven off in a removal or delivery van, to dash out of it when discovered by the driver, and to become lost. I don't want him run over, stolen, poisoned by anti-freeze, brake fluid, lily pollen, to have fireworks thrown at him, to be skinned alive for his fur or any of the other things that might happen. I know they might not happen too, but they happen to cats all the time, and it isn't going to happen to him (or my girl). I once saw a news report of 2 youths who had put a neighbours friendly cat in the oven and left him there to roast to death at Christmas, I have never forgotten it. If your cat can have a secure garden, then fine, but otherwise, if he is happy indoors, then I would keep it that way.
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09-01-2012, 02:51 PM
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Have you thought of catproofing your garden, so that he can go there but nowhere else? Seems the kindest thing to do.
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09-01-2012, 03:10 PM
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09-01-2012, 03:22 PM
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Re: would you let friendly cat outside?
My mum has a cat who turned up as a stray, he is very friendly, will let anyone pick him up or stroke him. He ran away from his original home years ago and ended up at ours and never left. Im sure if somebody wanted to they could catnap him but I think we all trust the neighbours in the village, it doesnt seemed to have changed much since I left.
Before we got my cat there were tons of cats in my village that I could stroke and play with, many of them followed me home, one even adopted himself but not long after disappeared. If it were up to me as a child I would have kept them all but my parents had the sense not to encourage them so they went home. I would do the same now and hope others have the same courtesy.
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