For Your Cat's Health and Yours, Keep It Indoors

Above, Sierra is perfectly content and safer indoors. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

This really should be a no-brainer.

Keeping your cat indoors will keep it healthier and keep it from harm caused by dogs, coyotes, cars and other hazards.

A study has found that cats kept indoors are much healthier as they are kept away from diseases.

According to Yahoo News:

Paris (AFP) - At least one running argument among cat lovers is now over: Whiskers, Lucy and Tigger are definitely better off staying indoors, scientists reported Wednesday. 

Pet cats allowed outdoors, in fact, are nearly three times as likely to become infected with pathogens or parasites than those confined to quarters, they reported in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters. 

Two-legged house-mates should also take note because cats -- a.k.a. Felis catus -- can transmit some of those diseases to humans, the authors said. 

Intriguingly, the farther domesticated felines are from the equator, the more likely they are to be afflicted by some kind of bug or virus, if they spend time outdoors.

As much as I would like to bring P.K. (the stray cat I feed) indoors, I don't want to risk the health of Sierra for the reasons stated in the article.

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