./Want the ginger cat
Looks cool
How do your Cat's find living inside?
The ginger one does tend to be most peoples favorite, probably the most playful of the three and has very fluffy soft fur. The black one is more timid and have very sleek fur whle the white/grey one is just a stone cold killer. He'll watch the other two playing with something and not move until its near him once that happens it's his. He also had the bigger stones of the two boys.
Both the wife and I grew up with cats and have both seen our share of accidents and tears both caused by living outside and in. We took our decision based on everything we knew before we got them and on the way they behave now.
They are fine indoors in all honesty. I mean they don't sit and tell me that they don't want to go outside cos its evil and wet, but they also don't express any behaviour which suggests they do want to go out either.
I made a 4ft scratching post in the hall which they use all the time which is saving the furniture (3" round post covered in 8mm sisal rope) and in the new year I'll be adding another somewhere taller.
They are very affectionate cats and will all sit on or immediately next to me or the wife whenever they can. They have a few toys that continue to drive them crazy even after having them for 4 months and they get regular attention. They are also very friendly with the myriad of visitors we have over and on xmas day when we had 7 people join us for dinner they loved all the fussing.
The indoors outdoors argument is not too dissimilar to the wet/dry food argument. Vets continue to tell owners that dry is best but a lot of owners prefer wet for a plethora of reasons. Many like to let the cats out in a large run much like a rabbit would have, I'm not sure how that is any better than just staying indoors but each to their own. Some like TheCrow really don't like the idea of cats being kept indoor, some others hate the idea of them going outside.
As TheCrow said earlier, cats are not going to run right out the door and get run over. They apparently have an intellect approximate to a 3 year old child. However, they are still vulnerable, they are still fragile and so that decision is only the owners to make. If you don't feel comfortable with your cat going outside then don't let it. Don't make that decision on anyone elses insistence. If anything happened while the cat was outside then you would forever wish you had listened to yourself instead of someone else.
At the end of the day, if a cat appears affectionate, healthy, loving and happy, whether it is kept indoors or out doesn't come into it for me.
(She's only 7) and I don't want the same thing to happen to me.
