Are indoor or indoor/outdoor cats healthier?

Domestic cat health - indoor versus indoor and outdoor lives

You would think that the answer is obvious and that you would say that indoor cats are healthier than indoor/outdoor cats. It’s more subtle than that. This is a big subject but perhaps it is useful to divide the health problems into two categories (1) trauma (2) everything else including parasitic infections, infectious diseases, …

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Why are British Shorthairs indoor cats?

British Shorthair - an indoor cat

British Shorthair cats are purebred, pedigree cats when registered with a cat association. They have a distinctive appearance indicating that they are purebred. The most popular colour is blue which is a diluted black and these cats often have copper eyes. It is a distinctive and glamorous look. You won’t see a blue British …

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Outdoor cat problems – they are multifarious

Outdoors cats

This is about the indoor-outdoor cat debate primarily. This is a huge topic and I touch on some of those issues in this article (which has become rambling I am afraid). The debate about allowing cats outside has been raging for a long time now as at 2022. There’s been an ongoing campaign from …

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Cat owners keep their cats indoors to protect their cat not wildlife (and to protect themselves)

Outdoors cats

A study which appears to have been organised by the website The Conversation found that the reason why 53% of cat owners living in the Australian state of Victoria kept their cats inside was to protect their cat and not wildlife. Cat caregivers were also less likely to believe that domestic cats have a …

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Giles Coren enjoys watching his cats’ comings and goings on his CCTV

Esther Walker, Giles Coren and Mo Tenzing

Giles Coren is probably my favourite journalist. He is happily married with two domestic cat companions named Mo Tenzing after the first man to climb Mount Everest and Iris. I make the point that he is happily married because he recently installed CCTV at his home; not to spy on his wife, but to …

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Neighbour’s cat consoles sad boy sitting on the sidewalk

Neighbour's cat consoles boy sitting on the sidewalk in Boise, Idaho, USA

VIDEO – COMMMENT: The boy that you see sitting on the sidewalk in this video is Liam from Boise, Idaho, USA. We are told that he was feeling down after his tee ball league season had ended. His mother, Krystal Woessner, noticed him having a difficult day. Liam went to the sidewalk outside his …

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