Indoor vs Outdoor cat - Why are there more "house" cats now?

(02-25-2012, 12:44 PM)Ram Wrote: People used to let cats go out whenever and wherever, why do people lock up their cats in their homes now? what has changed?

As you have likely seen on the news, there are a lot of violent and disturbed individuals in the world.

I recently read a news story where someone found a dead cat cut in half outside their house. Another news story talked about a guy whose neighbor shot his cat in the eye with some kind of pellet gun.

Anyway, it's a sick ,sad world out there and I don't want my cat cut in half or shot with a BB gun. You don't leave your children outside unsupervised for predators to find, and you can't just let your pets run freely for predators to find either.