Originally posted by jazzcat
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.
OMG how awful for Ripley and for you.I guess you didn't find out who did it right?You're like me.Noone goes outside.Except my BooBoo went out for about 3 minutes with me or Mike..to walk down the driveway and back or to chew grass in back a few times.But that is stopping now because I have to many cats and I don't want them to see BooBoo go out (with us).We stayed right next to him.My neighbors must think we're crazy over protective seeing the way we stuck like glue with BooBoo.I can't stand to see cats outdoors unless they are in their yard or on their own porch steps.(Even that bothers me if I know the owners car isn't in the driveway.)
Thank goodness I don't have human kids.I'm to overprotective.LOL