Quote Originally Posted by coqauvin View Post
Well, this is the thing: what kind of balance do you want to strike with a pet? How much of it will be the pet being itself and how much of it is you taking a living thing and projecting your desire onto it until it conforms to your vision of what you want it to be? This is why I'm not a big fan of housecats, because the very nature of bringing that animal into your house and keeping it locked up until it doesn't know what the outside world is is basically stockholm syndrome. That's kind of fucked up if you think about it (too much). Frankly, it makes me think of that Toddlers in Tiaras show.

I'm not really talking about introduced species and non-natural predators, I'm talking about the nature of the animal itself. You're absolutely right in that, technically, it's not natural for a cat to roam around in North America (unless it's a lynx or a cougar). But it's less natural (to me) for a cat to not roam around at all.

For dogs, which are pack animals anyways, it's completely different.
This is a good point.

Cats will always come back so I mean it's not a bad thing to let them out.. but whateves this house is big enough for her to enjoy herself.

(I felt the need to defend myself because now I feel bad )