Wolflady, I sorry if I offended you by saying your statement was complete nonsense. It just offends me to read such generalised, and to a large part unfounded, criticism about the quality of life of outdoor cats.

By the way, perhaps there is some misunderstanding on the definition of an outdoors cat? To me an indoor cat is one that in not allowed outside. An outdoor cat is one that has the choice to come and go as it pleases. Perhaps we should change the definitions like so:

Indoors cat - stays inside and is not allowed outdoors

Outdoors cat - stays outside and is not allowed indoors

I/O Cat - is allowed to come and go as they please

My cats are all I/O Cats.

PS. Spencer, try to refrain from drawing programming analogies to the term "I/O cats" - especially if you are familiar with UNIX.