Thread: Maine Coon cats as wanderers?

Against her better judgement my breeder friend agreed with one owner to be able to let cat out for a short period of time,he lived miles from anywhere & a long track led to his house off of a road that was barely used,once he had beeen neutered the routine was to let him go out for a short while before breakfast,most times they could watch him just patrolling round & not leaving their sight,on his return he was fed in his safe area which included trees for him to climb,ideal home & compromise,no doubt you can already guess what happened,one day he didn't return for brekkie & they went looking & found him dead just a short way down the track,he had been run over,no one had been to the house that early & they can only think someone had come down the track by mistake but what a sods law & the people never forgave themselves,I think their son now has the breed but the dad could never bring himself to own another...