Next Monday we will be adopting the stray that we have been feeding for almost a year, Scooter. Actually Monday is the trip to the white coats to make sure everything is ok but that is the "official dat" I guess...anyway, since hubby put some sealant down on our back porch this past weekend and we didn;t want Scooter to get into it( it is a tar like stuff) we moved the Scooter cat into the basement for the week. Yesterday on the way home from work hubby started getting all wierd on me..."Does Scooter really know that we are doing this for his own good? We've taken away his freedom, he can't get out and wander the neighborhood like he is used to doing." My response is that yes we have taken his freedom such as it is but we have given him shelter, safety, food on a regular basis, affection which he didn;t really get on any kind of regular time schedule....so the question becomes, for those of you who rescue and so forth, do they understand that we mean this for their own good? And that we do it out of love, to be sure they are safe and can live their life out to the fullest?