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My cat wasn’t an outside cat til I got her, aged 18 months. She took to it fine and now loves being outside. But friends moved from a house to a 5th floor apartment and so their cat Mia is now confined indoors and after a couple of weeks she was fine and has been ever since.
If you want a cat then you ought to get a kitten or an adult cat that has never been outside. I’m not sure it’s true that cats like or need to go outside - my cat sleeps around 20 hours a day and as long as she’s fed and groomed each day she’s happy, although she has access to the yard via the cat flap. We too live on a busy road but she doesn’t have access to the front, and she rarely strays outside of our tiny yard into the scrub land behind. She’s quite shy, which means she doesn’t really stray far.
You could try putting up posts and running netting over part of your garden if it’s practical, or extending your fence posts upwards and rigging flexible green netting up which is impossible to climb.
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Cats that don’t go outside by choice or being kept as indoor? I think if it’s by choice you really wouldn’t know until you have had it for a long while. Like Patch used to venture out far and long, now she is pretty much a self made indoor cat. Well partly because of that annoying black kitty upstairs.
I just think cats should be allowed outside because otherwise, no matter how big their home is, it’s still feel like a lifetime imprisonment.
With letting your cat to go outside, of course there are always risks of them being involved in all sorts of acccidents, poisons, people who don’t like animals and them going missing, but I still keep my cat flap unlocked 24/7 because I think a living being should be allowed their freedom.