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In or Out
"Mark Carroll" wrote in message ... Mack A. Damia writes: I think I was beaten down a year or so ago when I said that it was cruel to let your cat roam outside. It's definitely one of those questions for which there is a massive cultural difference between countries. For instance, for the UK, http://www.yourcat.co.uk/General-cat...door-cats.html has, "In the USA, most cat welfare people recommend an indoor-only life, while in the UK many would recommend cats have access to the outdoors." http://www.cats.org.uk/uploads/docum...tdoor_cats.pdf says, "Ideally all cats would be allowed access to outdoors to express their natural behaviour." Now here is a letter, and an answer from a vet: I'm guessing an American one? Statistics vary, but house cats live, on average, nine years longer than their outdoor counterparts. Individual circumstances vary greatly though. For instance, do you live right next to fast roads, or out on a rural farm? Secondly, there's quality of life: even given a shorter lifespan, are those years much happier for a cat that may explore and hunt as it pleases? I don't know if you thought that one American vet's opinion is somehow going to definitively end the debate, but their analysis seems so simplistic, and expert advice is so diverse, that I suspect you're just opening it up again. -- Mark Let's just say that my cat was in/out in UK and lived to be 25 and accept that it's different in the USA. I refuse to argue about it. |
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