Eugene Bailey writes: All cats should be kept inside or restrained for their own good and that of family members. Consider only that rabies is ever-present in the wild, and that a cat that had contact with an infected animal could easily transmit the disease to an unsuspecting family member who touched it. Feline leukemia is also widespread, and easily transmitted among cats, who often fight when unsupervised.
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Seriously?? Do like we do: get your cat a rabies vaccination. And when that guy down the Cape recently got rabies (from a *bat*) wasn't he the first person in Mass. in like 40 years to get it/die from it??
Pet cats routinely get shots for rabies, feline leukemia, etc. I disapprove of forcing cats to stay inside at all times. Any creature, human or feline, is safer if it never leaves the house. IMO, that's way too high a price to pay for safety. Since cats can't make that call you have to do it for them.