My Ripley was shot with an arrow in his leg over 10 years ago. I didn't want to let him out but he snuck out the front door once and then hubby talked me into letting him out regularly. This had been going on for about five months and then one day he didn't come home. We searched for two days and finally he showed up injured. Somehow that poor little guy managed to climb the 5 foot tall chain link fence into the back yard and up the deck to the back door. Ripley had either chewed off the the shaft off the arrow or it broke off and the vet removed the rest from inside his leg which ran from his knee down to the bend of his foot.

Since then I vowed to never let my cats outside again.