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The difference between an outdoor cat and an indoor cat
is roughly twice as long a life expectancty.

Carl in CT

Not necessarily, it depends entirely on where you live. I know many
outdoor cats who lived to a ripe old age, one I know of is 18 and another
who sadly died (of natural causes) last year was 22. There was a reported
case in the newspapers here a few years ago of a cat who lived entirely
outdoors reaching the age of 31.

Ivor