i still dont get people who are so against outdoor cats. man, theyre like a degree of separation from being straight up wild animals, particularly in places where they breed w wild cat species. what, dyou expect everyone to turn their houses into a kitty jungle gym rather than let it just get some fresh fucking air?
i used to have the outdoorsiest of outdoorsy cats, and he could not be satisfied indoors. he needed an expanse of new territory to explore, and he needed to hunt, bc hed spent his earliest months abandoned in a garden. so we gave him that. when it turned out we had catnappers in the area and he got stolen, we gave him back to the shelter when we got him back. yknow what theyre gonna do? make him a farmer's cat, not a bloody indoors cat. the responsible thing when it wasnt safe for him to be an outdoors cat here, was to let him be an outdoors cat somewhere else, somewhere safe.
if your cat dies bc it got run over on the main road, the problem wasnt you letting it out. it was you deciding to keep a cat that wasnt satisfied staying indoors while living so close to a main road. damn.