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I've always kept my cats as indoor-only. However, in my experience there is simply no way to make an outside kitty an inside kitty. He will always insist that he should have outside privileges, no matter how long you keep him inside. I would go so far as to say trying to transition one is cruel.
Has this been your experience?
Or is there some trick to getting them to accept it?
If I'm right, at about what stage is the "I am an outside kitty" firmly implanted in his brain? I don't imagine a 4-week-old kitten is developed enough to care but sometime after that it at least seems to be in there pretty good.
I'm not thinking of getting an outside cat; it's just something that's happened to me in the past and I thought it would make a good topic. Sadly the result was that I let the poor thing outside and he was eventually crushed by a car. I believe it was a catch 22 and it would have been just as bad to keep him inside. He was a neutered male and I rescued him from some punk kids who were using him as a pool toy, playing catch with the poor thing and dunking him under the water.
Has this been your experience?
Or is there some trick to getting them to accept it?
If I'm right, at about what stage is the "I am an outside kitty" firmly implanted in his brain? I don't imagine a 4-week-old kitten is developed enough to care but sometime after that it at least seems to be in there pretty good.
I'm not thinking of getting an outside cat; it's just something that's happened to me in the past and I thought it would make a good topic. Sadly the result was that I let the poor thing outside and he was eventually crushed by a car. I believe it was a catch 22 and it would have been just as bad to keep him inside. He was a neutered male and I rescued him from some punk kids who were using him as a pool toy, playing catch with the poor thing and dunking him under the water.