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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up on a horse farm in PA.  We had barn cats, and it is true that they were happy, and their life expectancies were similar to indoor cats (because we spayed/neutered and regularly vaccinated, as well as giving them a warm place to sleep in winter).  Our tack room in the stable was heated and we had a cat flap on its door: some of the cats regularly preferred to sleep in there in the winter, which proves that the rest of the stable WAS colder than they preferred.  In summer, they never went in the tackroom, but the kitties loved to be in the warm in winter.  I'm sure they wouldn't have died if they had not had the option of the heated tackroom, but they wouldn't have been very comfortable.

Our barn cats loved roaming and stalking in the fields and woods.  Your suburban outdoor cats will also roam, and they will get hit by cars.  THIS is why you should NOT have outdoor only cats in the suburbs.

Please leave the cats on the farm if you are going to do this to them.  It is pointless and cruel.

I have an indoor cat now who is my "other" child.  I would never put her outdoors unless we moved to a farm (we won't).

Signed,

Crazy Cat Lady[/quote]

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