If nothing else, an indoor cat lives a lot longer than an outdoor cat.
Take that, women’s suffrage!
Seriously though, even less than a century ago, people had a lot of really fucked up ideas about human, much less animal, welfare. That’s not remotely an argument. People let their dogs roam free, too. We rightly recognize this is not acceptable. The reality is that cats are hugely environmentally damaging, spread diseases to humans, and don’t live very long when allowed to be outdoors - rarely more than a quarter of their potential lifespan.
Wouldn’t surprise me. I was watching my soft domesticated chickens hunt and kill some mice that got into their pen this weekend. All I can say is, if you have a mouse problem, get chickens, not cats.
