Is it bad for a cat to spend all their time indoors without going outside at all?
A simple example of enriching the cat's environment by a friend's husband who lives in the US. A person on social media asked the above question. Another asked a very similar question: "How do cats stand staying inside their whole life?" The questions go to that eternal debate about the necessity - it is believed by many - to keep domestic cats indoors full-time for their safety, for their owner's peace of mind and to protect wildlife. Many more people are keeping their cats indoors full-time nowadays than in the past. If you go back far enough into the past, nobody kept their cat inside full-time. And in certain parts of the world, most domestic cat are community cats. They mingle between different owners. It is a very were loose relationship and they are all outdoor cats. Cat domestication is still on a journey which started 10,000 years ago. It's evolving and it will be very different in 10,000 years' time. I suspect that in 10,000 years' time all d