Ted Davis said:

There are also those of us who feel that it is more important that
the
cats be allowed to be cats instead of precious objects. I have a
number of cats and some of them are happiest living mostly outdoors in
the woods and fields while others are not at all sure that being
outdoors without their human is ever a good idea.

On the rare occasion that we can get our Main-coon to go out, he never
strays off of our deck. The 10 month old siblings however, beg to go
out night and day. I do wory about them a lot, but would not deprive
them of their love of the great outdoors and the hundreds of trees to
climb. The road is a little way from our house, but fortunately they
seem to be afraid of moving cars. It is sort of like your children; you
try to protrct them, but in the end they have to be their own persons
and risk living.

Dave