Originally posted by veegan

Causes of rural cat mortality (Illinois, Warner 1985) were: Vehicles 37%
Disease 24
Humans 11
Dogs 10
Winter Storms 6
Machinery 4
Farm Chemicals 4
Livestock 1
"Old Age" 1

All of those except old age could have been prevented I know accidents do happen, but simply keeping cats indoors would have prevented most all of those things.