Thread: Letting your Maine Coon Out?

I'm worried about this too and haven't even got my kitty yet. My worry is in the summer, when windows and doors are often open. What do you do when it's hot outside - do you keep them shut in a room? We live in the country down a very quiet road and fields out the back but I'd still worry.

Originally Posted by Karena

I'm worried about this too and haven't even got my kitty yet. My worry is in the summer, when windows and doors are often open. What do you do when it's hot outside - do you keep them shut in a room? We live in the country down a very quiet road and fields out the back but I'd still worry.

At this point, our balcony door is open all the time during the warm summer days. So the air can come into the whole apartment and the cats can go outside to get some air there.
We're looking for a house at this moment and we really want a house with a garden, so we can build a secure cat house in the garden that will give the cats the chance to let the cats go outside in a safe way.
What we would like to build is something like this:


There are so many safe ways to let the cats go outside, that it's absolutely not necessary to expose them to the dangers in the street. ;)

We have a large back garden with gates into six acres beyond which we sometimes let out to a local shire breeder - it would be impossible to make the garden cat secure so an enclosure would be our only option. I will have to take it a day at a time and see how things go I think. We live down a small no through road which only leads to a farm and very rarely has traffic going past and out the back is just fields. Still I understand the other dangers there are and have thought about getting a harness so I can take him for a walk around the fields out the back with the dogs

Originally Posted by Karol

At this point, our balcony door is open all the time during the warm summer days. So the air can come into the whole apartment and the cats can go outside to get some air there.
We're looking for a house at this moment and we really want a house with a garden, so we can build a secure cat house in the garden that will give the cats the chance to let the cats go outside in a safe way.
What we would like to build is something like this:


There are so many safe ways to let the cats go outside, that it's absolutely not necessary to expose them to the dangers in the street. ;)

now that's a fab looking enclosure, thats the sort of thing we'll be doing for the cats though on a larger scale when we find somewhere with a larger garden space :D x

Originally Posted by LoopyKoonz

now that's a fab looking enclosure, thats the sort of thing we'll be doing for the cats though on a larger scale when we find somewhere with a larger garden space :D x

It's definately something I want for myself as well when we find a house with a large garden. We keep on looking and hopefully 2010 will be the year in which we find something.
Right now; they go outside on our catproof balcony, and they really like it like that. What they really love, is to sit on the table and watch our neighbours or the birds in the tree right in front of the balcony.

I am going to put the cat among the pigeons, possibly literally! I do let my 2 older cats out. They have access to my garden and the woods beyond. They bring me gifts of mice and shrews on a regular basis and are happy and healthy. I understand the worries everyone has and I totally share them,however I do think cats should be able to hunt as they would naturally! I hope I don't offend anyone and I am sorry if this is controvertial. I totally respect your points of view too!

Everyone that has taken the time when visiting me to say "oh wow, she's gorgeous & so big" then say in the next breath "I totally understand now why you don't let her out - she'd be pinched before the day was out!".

After losing two cats to cars, one to theft & another one getting lost I will not let a cat outside to roam. Never.

oh i know i wouldn be letting my kitty out either or meeka for that matter ive lost a few cats before myself, i have however got a harness and extendable lead for them so i can walk them around my back garden untill such times i could get an enclosure. my house is pretty tiny to keep them cooped up all day but my bak is massive so im sure it would be fun for them out there lol... oh people from where im from would take your eyes from your head and then sel them back to you so i darnt let my cats out lol xx