Inside / Outside thread :)

[lizzielou742]

Tito and Sophie are stictly indoors, and that's because I live in an apartment complex by two super super busy roads. Not only would I be afraid they'd get run over, but how would they know which apartment door was mine? They all look alike! Plus with all those people around I get paranoid someone would steal by babies. That's why they're both getting microchipped the next time they go to the vet. Is anyone else paranoid that their cats will get stolen? Tito does have a harness and a leash, though, and occasionally on nice days we'll go outside and he'll lay in the sun. Most of the time he just looks kind of freaked out though, so I only do it once in a while when he's being particularly rambunctious. As for the "life expectancy," our cat when I was growing up was indoor/outdoor and lived to be 18. He died of old age - just wandered off into the woods one day and never came back - we found his body three days later. But anyway if I move to a place with a yard I'd like to let them outdoors if they want to be. Sophie was born outdoors but so far expresses no desire to go back out - no interest in looking out a window or our patio doors - unlike Tito who has a special window seat so he can watch all the birdies fly by and all the hoomans walking their doggies!