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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless you offer the cat some sort of heated shelter in the winter, this is cruel. Straw in the garage is not enough.[/quote]

The barn cats in that part of PA are not in heated rooms during their colder winter. The owners say that the straw and heavier winter coats are enough and they have never had [b]a frozen cat.[/b] Our garage is warmer than outside by about 8 degrees. [/quote]

If that's your standard, I guess cats will be fine. But cats will be freezing cold though and you are a cruel person. [/quote]

I don't see it that way. This is the life for most cats around the world, and I am not sure they are any happier pent up inside all day. The farms all over the US have outdoor cats. It is not like these cats have been living indoors then are suddenly asked to adjust to something new. They have been outdoors for generations and have probably built up what ever characteristics are needed to survive. 
Look every animal rights person thinks animals should be inside. The new trend is bunnies inside. That is one domestic animal that has never been indoors until about the 1950s when people started keeping them as pets. Now all of a sudden, the large rodent is seen as a social animal and needs the company of humans. Look I sometimes think that we torture animals more by having them adjust to our ways. A long life is not necessarily a happy life. 
I don't call an animal a pet if it has to stay in a cage. Let the cats roam, and if they get hit by a car, it will be a quick end. Potomac roads are not like DC rads anyway. [/quote]

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