this needs to be said louder, there is no good reason to keep cats outside the house other than laziness and purposeful ignorance. Beyond that is malicious intent. Roaming cats should be taken to shelters to protect both them and wildlife until people learn to keep them inside like every other pet.
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Most days, when the sun hits that part of the floorboards, our cat Laurie can be found there, lazing in a sunbeam watching the birds through the glass.
The Invasive Species Council responded by calling on the New South Wales government to introduce laws requiring that cats be kept indoors.
She escaped a few times when she was younger, usually making it no more than one body length from the door before freezing in terror at the overwhelming vastness of the outdoors.
Once, when we were visiting my parents’ farm, I clipped her into a harness with the expectation that she would enjoy exploring the yard, but she flattened her robust body to the ground and refused to move.
There was a moment, in our first winter in this house, when we woke to the sound of rats chewing the ceiling, then I wished my old cat Elmo was still alive.
If Nugget hadn’t lost the leg and decided to stick closer to home, I doubt she would have lived past five.
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