Thread: Maine Coon cats as wanderers?

I don't know if I mentioned this on here before but there was a massive scare in the village I used to live in - some guy was leaving out poisoned cat food and lots of cats were killed or made very ill by it. After that I swore that I'd never have a cat which could roam. One of our cats disappeared (we've assumed it was because he got ill and died) and the other was very ill and afterwards she wouldn't go any further away from the house than our back garden.

I think if a cat has been bred to be inside then they don't know any better and you're not denying them anything by keeping them indoors, you're protecting them. I'd love to have a garden enclosure or something like that but we live in a flat so can't have things like that at the moment. I'm sure if we ever move to a house with a garden we will do something like that.

I'd never dream of letting Teddy roam free.

(Just my two cents based on my personal experience!)