Do your cats want to go outside?  

My daughter's kitten, who is a year old this month, is our current escape artist. If you're not super quick getting in or out the door, she makes a mad dash out the door and down the stairs. She stops three steps from the bottom. She did this to me last night as I was turning out the stairway light and going to bed. Of course, I wasn't dressed to go get her just in case she decided to venture beyond that magical third step. I went in to my daughter and told her to go get her "child" back inside, but she was less dressed than I was, so I went back out on the top landing and yelled down the steps, "TIKI! Get your G-D little A** back in this house!!" With that, she turned and came galloping up the steps and tore inside and down the hall!!! LOL Whodathunk it!!!???

My other two were allowed to go out at my mother's house because there are no streets behind the house. The older of the two would go to the front yard and sleep under the lilac bush, but she'd never go near the road. The other one never went past the corners of the house. But, here, there are streets all over, blocks, etc, because it's more city than country, so it isn't safe to allow the cat out at all - especially one that isn't street wise like my old Lady cat is.

Actually, the answer to this depends on where you live!!! I try & keep all my cats inside as I feel it's safer!!! However, I used to have a male that just wouldn't stay inside. If I opened a window to get some fresh air, he'd cut open the screen & let himself out. After several months of him letting himself out & coming back home OK, I finally just gave up & started letting him out. He used to be outside & would come knock on the door to come inside. He'd run back, use the litter box & then beg to go back out. I tried explaining to him that he could use the yard easier but he just refused to accept that. I worried every time he was out that he'd get run over!!! If your male has not been neutered, he may just be picking up on the scent of a female in heat. I also had a male cat that was born outside. I never opened the door that he didn't try & get out. Well...he made it one day. That was 5 years ago & I've not seen him since. He was a beautiful, loving cat & I like to think somebody adopted him!!!If you decide to let him roam, please make sure he's had ALL his shots!!!

Two of my 5 cats use to do outdoor because they ask, they were enough old to go outside but sure got always a danger that they can bit by an savage animal.. Last time, it happen,and we see more savage and dangerous around home. so we decide that they shouldn't go outdoor anymore.. We live near of field and forest so more savage animal going there but in city not more secur I must said... cars.. train..

I grew up with cats & they were always allowed to go outside in the backyard as they pleased until about 8pm or they would never come back in but were locked up when we went out but mind you, we always had 6ft fences.

When I grew up our cat was always both. She lived inside but was allowed to go out.
I know a lot of people that let there cats go in and out.
Lacey is strictly inside and gets nervous when I do try and take her out.
As long as he is vaccinated and is neutered I see nothing wrong with it.

I have 10 cats and they come and go as they please. Not everybody does that but I can't keep mine locked up in the house 24/7 because I consider it cruel. Now if someone were to live in an apartment or something such as that, I can understand for there's so many things out there, especially cars, that can hurt or kill them but in a house, even in a subdivision, it's ok to let them out. I feel that a cat who's able to go out and do the things that cats do and if they were to get killed, then they did get to live a full life as much as a cat can. If a cat were to live inside all the time and never go out but knew the outdoors at one time, is a very sad cat and it could live a long long life but why would you or anybody want it to live a long life if it's not happy? I hope I've made some sense here for I'm trying!! lol

My cat likes to get out of the apartment and make us chase him down the hall, and once I even chased him up to the third floor of the building (boy was that ever annoying) but he has never tried to get outside,....or was it that someone never left the hall door open? LOL I don't think he'd know what to do if he ever got outside.

I have never kept cat, but I once kept a dog,
I think that they should have common characteristic.
Ex- few months my baby's dog threw and my girl friend wept aloud 1,
Because I open the door to occupy, it away and disappear ran, then didn't come back any further,
Although its sometimes is really very naughty,I still keep liking it very much,
All time that it go out must be careful.

I think all animals love the outside. Trouble is, the outside in a city is not the same as in the country.

Still, I think it is important to have the pet neutered/spayed so that the number of un-wanted litters are reduced and then put a cat flap in the outside door so that they can come and go and take a chance on life the same way we have to.

To keep them in all the time is like prison and as with humans, they can become institutionalised and fearful of the 'outside'.

Unfortunately, my cat (whom we found as a tiny kitten, caught in a pipe) was diagnosed right away with feline leukemia. He probably had it from birth, the vet said. That means we can never let him outside.

This is heartbreaking, because he is young and healthy enough at this stage, and is dying to go out, all day long. He keeps his nose pressed against the window, watches the birds and squirrels with a passion, and is always trying to scoot past our legs when we open and close the door. He is neutered, but it's obvious that everything in him wants to go out and sniff at lady cats, fight with male cats, chew on the grass, and destroy the neighbors' plants.

Of course, as good citizens we can never let him outside. Feline leukemia is highly contagious, and he would spread it to other cats. As for me, I'd go ahead and give him a short, sweet life as opposed to a long, imprisoned one, but it's just not fair to other people's pets who might get infected.

We started trying to put him on a cat leash, to take him for walks or to let him out in the yard, but he will have none of it. He won't tolerate a leash. Too bad he doesn't know why we're trying to put it on him...

Still, though he yearns for the outside, he has a safe, warm, and loving world here inside. It's all we can do, I guess.