What? The cat ran outside and you forgot about it? 😧
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My cat is fine, she wants to wander outside all the time, sometimes you don't even notice that she slipped outside when someone opens the door. There's some bushes in my front yard that she hides in for safety.
Last week, my cat spent the night wandering outside. Then at 3-5 AM next morning, my mother woke up to a loud cat meow and opened the front door to check. There it is, my cat dashing toward the door. She slipped outside the night before when the door was opened.
Few months?
The cat shelter I adopted my cat from had a no roaming clause in the adoption agreement, eight years ago.
This stuff ain't new.
Leashed outing is fine.
I didn't say the concept was new. I've been looking at cat pictures on the internet for a long time. And only recently have there been so many people that felt compelled to go into any tangentially related post and strongly voice their opinion about outside cats. The fad is new.
And I'm happy it's finally hitting cultural critical mass where people who don't properly care for their pets get told off, instead of everyone shrugging it off because it's "normal". People get shamed for a variety of inappropriate actions, and a lot of it society just lets slide because its just what "everyone" does.
But that's not how you get cultural norms to develop towards being more fair. When you see BS, you call it out. That too is something that's happening more. People are growing increasingly aware that the world sucks, and more and more are taking action to incite improvement in whatever small way they can.
That should be lauded, not condemned.
And while its unfortunate, any such thing will gain momentum, and have idiots pushing the pendulum past middle and the other direction, because they aren't actually self-aware enough to understand the movement, but are just caught up in it, enjoying the dopamine or whatever.
But it seldom gets pushed further up the other way. Once it is swinging freely, it's just a matter of time until it settles in a new middle.