All Cats Should Be Indoor Cats

Tammy's note:  Consider everything below... but also consider this...  Bengals are beautiful and unusual cats... if your pet is allowed outside without supervision, you may lose your pet!  It has happened before where a beloved Bengal has been allowed out to never return home.  These cats do not often get reported when found, but rather are adopted into new families.

Cats allowed to roam at will sometimes pay with their lives, and taxpayers pay millions of dollars each year for animal control services to rescue, treat, feed, and house many of the cats that roam "at large" in the country.

There is nothing "natural" about a cat being outside.  When humans domesticated cats (about 6000 years ago), they removed them from the wild and changed their ecological role.  Cats are no longer wild predators that fit into an ecosystem, but are dependent on humans, receiving the things they need to live from people.

Cats can cause the same problems as dogs.  We do not tolerate dogs roaming at large because they can be a nuisance.  Cats break into garbage too, and dig up the neighbour's flowerbeds, defecate in children's sand boxes, ruin bird watching for people with feeders, and add to the burgeoning cat overpopulation problem.  Free-roaming cats also pose a hazard to motorists who try to avoid hitting them on the roads.

Risks to outdoor cats:

Pet Overpopulation:
 
Tips for Keeping Cats Happy Indoors: