All 11 of mine are indoor cats and always have been. They are perfectly healthy and happy and never attempt to go outside. The fact that they are Persians was the deciding factor for three reasons:-
1) Pedigree cats, in particular, tend not to be as streetwise as moggies and therefore risk getting run over, chased by dogs etc.
2) There is a big market in stolen pedigree cats. People can falsify pedigrees to go with them so don't think the cat isn't worth the same without it's papers. Papers can and are got to go with stolen cats.
3) The long coat of the Persian is not the best type of coat to go under hedges, oily cars etc.
They are less at risk from infections, fleas, worms and of course cat fights. Which even neutered/spayed cats can get up to.
All my kittens are sold with a contract that says they must be kept as an indoor cat unless in a cat run/pen or cat proof garden.
If I was to own a moggy as I have done in the past I would keep that indoors as well. I just feel it is safer and they are not at risk of the horrid things in the world.
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