Originally posted by boscibo
Bo was an indoor/outdoor cat, and I successfully turned him into an indoor-only cat. It was rough, but don't give in! He will probably beg and beg to go out, but leave the room when he does that. I retrained Bo when I moved from the country into town, he had to become an indoor cat. He never begs to go out anymore, and he is much safer indoors. You have a great opportunity with winter coming, as others have said. The main thing is to not give in when he wants to go out. I decided to not do the harness thing with him, I thought that would just lead to him wanting and begging to go out again. Bo does this *rear up on his hind legs and scratch furiously on the door* thing when he wants a door opened, and I wanted to discourage that.
Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that it is possible to turn an indoor/outdoor kitty into indoor-only. It just takes a strong committment on your part.
I know that *I* could turn him into an indoor cat, BUT the problem is my parents, and Tigger is very nawtee

He will bang on windows, tear up screens...etc, trying to tell us he wants to go out, he will then go upstairs and run around and do the same, and bug my grandparents and sometimes its at night when they are asleep.

But the problem is, either my parents OR my grandparents WILL give in to him, so it makes it alot harder

I know how much more safe he'll be, I just wish I was old enough to know that when we first got him