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This is exactly why they belong inside. If you are going to have a pet that is capable of damaging the local environment by killing off native fauna, then you need to keep that pet contained in order to protect the local fauna. Otherwise, the community will start doing things like offering a bounty on cat scalps. If you are going to have a pet, take proper care of it.
Whatever man. Cats are common local a round here, no reason to keep them as slaves.
Don't get a pet like a cat to keep him/her confined.
Just don't get a cat then. Your outdoor cat is going to die in its prime and decimate the local fauna in the process. .
Not in Ottawa here... Cats lives outdoor normally and really doesn't suffer from that.
As for local fauna, well, yeah, but again cats have been living here for centuries and its pretty difficult to say that cats are not "local fauna" at this point.
To be honest, I would like my cats to KILL rats and mice instead of bringing them inside alive to play and then forget about them... But this is another story.
Human hunters to much more harm than cats around here. They even kill people sometimes. I would like to stop them more than stop cats from going outside.
Note: I own 4 dogs and 2 cats. The cats have a catflap and spend most of their time outside, since they are big enough to avoid being eaten by crows or foxes. I have even seen one cat walk side by side with a fox once. The dogs also are hunters and far more dangerous thab the cats as they killed, so far: three young boars, two young deer's, a couple of rabbit nests and I had twice already to jump in a dog-fox fight and separate the contenders letting the fox run away....
So...
I'm not going to argue with you because you're not going to be receptive to contrary evidence but I need you to understand that "centuries" does not even register on the scale of domestic vs introduced species. Your cat is an introduced species and you should keep it indoors.
People who let their cats roam are irresponsible owners and shouldn't own pets.