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Originally Posted by JackieandCharlie
We closed on our home last Friday, and will be moving up from Miami, FL before the end of February with our old tom cat, Tommy.
Tommy is currently an "indoor/outdoor" cat and is "fixed". We know he is going to have to be indoors exclusively for a while so he can get acclimated to the new environment, but we never saw cats outdoors during our visits to TV. We were wondering if people let their cats outside unsupervised.
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Many years ago we had an indoor/outdoor cat, and halfway throught it's life we had a Raccoon rabies scare in our neighborhood. From that point forward we have never allowed any of our cats loose outside again. When we stopped her going out she adapted and she stopped asking to go out within a week or sooner. So I believe your Tommy will also adapt quickly, especially coming into a new environment. He'll be too busy exploring and sniffing all the new nooks and cranies of his new home, at least when not napping.
It is also a well know fact that cats have a longer life as an indoor cat. The indoor cat's average life expectancy is more that twice the years of an outdoor cat. Here is an interesting read on outdoors vs. indoors:
Indoor vs Outdoor Cats | General Cat Articles
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