# Indoor/Outdoor Cats -- what's the scoop?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indoor-outdoor-cats-whats-the-scoop/138721>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 25, 2002, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indoor-outdoor-cats-whats-the-scoop/138721 "2002-11-25T17:45:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![bwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@bwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bwk)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indoor-outdoor-cats-whats-the-scoop/138721/61 "2002-12-01T08:00:56Z")

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I’ve got a webpage devoted to this issue – at [http://home.hiwaay.net/~keiper/indoors.htm](http://home.hiwaay.net/~keiper/indoors.htm)

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**Author:** ![Jake2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jake2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake2)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2002, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/indoor-outdoor-cats-whats-the-scoop/138721/62 "2002-12-01T22:48:54Z")

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Ratty seems to have a good grip on this . I have a dog and a cat. The dog is outdoors on a (long) lease and the cat goes outdoors at night and sleeps indoors all day. They are of course both well fed and loved. I’ve dogs and cats all my life without any problems, they have always been long lived.

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