I'm certainly glad your story has a happy ending.... in defense of myself
in keeping
the cats indoors.... they don't ever attempt to go outside. I'm going in
and out all day
long and they lay by door to the deck.... not even attempting to slide
through.
They had their fill of the
outdoors when they lived with their cat families on the corner from me.
Finally got
the 25 cats placed - These two little guys I kept - as indoor kitties.
Whatever works
for you is what you should do. No one will ever convince me that outdoor
cats is the way
to go for everyone though ;-)

Nedra

"rtk" wrote in message
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Nedra wrote:

Snowshoe gets rambanctious and climbs the screen door I walk up to him
and
tell

My family in Texas have two cats, named Snownose and Snowchin, who had
been kept exclusively indoors, necessitating that everyone, including
little kids, slide out the doors fast, in the narrowest possible space,
and quickly slam the door behind them. Then one day the inevitable
happened: the twin children were a bit too slow escaping to the backyard
and the twin kittens slid out with them. They leaped and hopped to the
stream below and there was no way they could be caught. The family went
sadly back indoors, closing the door out of habit, and there immediately
appeared two abandoned black kitties, one with a white nose and one with
a white chin, mewing to be let in. Now, the cats go out whenever the
the people do and go back in with them. Happy ending.

Ruth Kazez