Why Should Your Cat Be Kept Indoors?
- Fleas and cost of flea treatment monthly
- Ticks (carry Lyme Disease) and cost of tick treatment monthly
- FIV (Feline version of HIV which can develop into full blown Aids)
- Feline Leukemia transmitted by fighting with other outdoor cats
- Feline Herpes from exposure to other cats
- FIP (A particularly nasty deadly disease picked up from other outdoor cats)
- Toxicidia from your cat digging in the dirt and picking up the parasite and bringing it inside
- Picking up intestinal worms
- Infected wounds/abscesses and eye damage from cat bites/scratches incurred during cat fights that need expensive vet attention
- Hit in traffic/ran over
- Lost
- Stolen
- Taken/eaten by predators coy dogs, coyotes, fisher
- Attacked by other neighborhood cats (possible injury and very stressful for your cat)
- Attacked and possibly killed by neighborhood dogs
- Attacked by mean people
- Taunted/teased/abused by neighborhood children
- They won't accidentally or intentionally, be poisoned by antifreeze.
- In the winter, they won't crawl up into a the hood of a warm car to stay warm and then be hurt or killed when the car starts again or moves.
- They could get trapped in someone's shed or garage. On really hot days or really cold days- that could be dangerous (heat stroke, frostbite).
- Keeping them inside you'll notice UT and gastrointestinal issues sooner because you can monitor their urine and stool via litter box.
- And finally, if you keep your cat indoors you will be able to spend more time with your cat since he/she will be around more.