Hey that anon pissed me off so here's a photospam of my indoor-outdoor cats!!
The big fluffy b/w is Tobemory!! He's chumbly and likes 2 eat rat
The Blepping Void is Minerva!! She's intentionally naughty and likes to do crime in her free time
The b/w skinny baby is Luna!! She's a little weird and she probably has some sort of cat-anxiety-disorder because she's just Like That but we love her.
Might post some in-memoriam pictures of Wookie later, she was an indoor-outdoor cat for all roughly 17 years of her life, the same as Alfie, who got to somewhere over twenty and Bobs who got to like. 15?? I think? He died before I was born and was a pretty sickly cat but still had a decently long life.
Anyways so: I like in the semi-countryside in the UK and our house backs onto a moor and we're surrounded by farms. Our cats are generally pretty safe going outside and we've done so with all our cats for all of their lives as long as they've wanted to go out. We are considerate when the weather is bad and we don't force them out, they come and go as they like, and let us know whenever they want to come in or out by Y E L L I N
In all seriousness only one of our cats has ever been injured, it was wookie, who cut her back paw on a bit of glass, once, years ago. It did not stop her from wanting to go out and it did not stop us from letting her out. She died of old age a couple of months ago, and she lived a full and happy life with our family, and I won't take blind criticism of the way that we treat the cats who are our family, nor will I take the insinuation that I somehow don't love them enough to look after them.
I normally debate people pretty civilly when they approach me because I don't mind disagreeing and arguing politely, it's a way of learning about other people's perspectives and being more considerate of others and their lives, but I'm not here so a random person, probably from a different country can tell me I don't deserve to own pets with absolutely no context and the implication being that I treat them badly. If you want to talk about concerns you have, message me. Don't insult me and my family and run off.
If you want to talk to me, actually do it, anon.