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Our cats go out. We're in the UK where the cultural expectation on this is more towards outdoor kitties. They never go much further than 100 yards from the house, and they're shut in every evening, because we have foxes living nearby.
I'm not a fan of collars. All the cats I've ever owned have shed them within about 20 minutes and a friend of mine had a cat that choked to death when it got its collar stuck on a branch.
Microchips are great. Register them - again, I'm not sure about this because I'm in the UK but our chip company does one registration free and then you pay to update the info when you move. It's about £15 to update the info.
Some cats are fine with indoors and don't care about outside. Others desperately want to go outside. My old cat, Olive, we could no more have kept inside than we could have turned her into a bird. She was escaping to the outdoors from about 3 months.
Do what's best for you and your cat, and apply all reasonable safety measures. And neuter, neuter neuter. Neutered cats don't roam so far and don't indulge in such risky behaviour and are less agressive, all of which will help keep them safe if they go outside. Plus, no unwanted kittens to live short, brutal lives.
I'm not a fan of collars. All the cats I've ever owned have shed them within about 20 minutes and a friend of mine had a cat that choked to death when it got its collar stuck on a branch.
Microchips are great. Register them - again, I'm not sure about this because I'm in the UK but our chip company does one registration free and then you pay to update the info when you move. It's about £15 to update the info.
Some cats are fine with indoors and don't care about outside. Others desperately want to go outside. My old cat, Olive, we could no more have kept inside than we could have turned her into a bird. She was escaping to the outdoors from about 3 months.
Do what's best for you and your cat, and apply all reasonable safety measures. And neuter, neuter neuter. Neutered cats don't roam so far and don't indulge in such risky behaviour and are less agressive, all of which will help keep them safe if they go outside. Plus, no unwanted kittens to live short, brutal lives.
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