Nope! Just decided to be a disappearing asshole for 36 hours and come back like nothing happened.
edit: thanks to all for the different perspectives. he is fixed, has all of his shots, and has his own temperature contolled kitty condo (aka the laundry room) that we put him into every night. we have a pretty good network of neighbors and pieced together his activities via security cameras. he’s a mouser for sure and that is his job until he decides to retire.
I’m glad the fool is ok.
But if you allow the cat outside, don’t. Free-roaming cats, statistically, will die somewhere out there, and live a much shorter life.
Cats are also an invasive species basically everywhere. A cat outdoors, off a leash, is a danger to itself and everything around it.
Transitioning an outdoor cat to indoor life is tricky, it’s basically been allowed to be a part-time wild animal, so becoming full-time pet can be a challenge. But it can be done, though it will require lots of actual playing with the cat to replace the entertainment it has been going outside to get.
But they will live a longer life, with fewer health risks. And they will learn to come to you for play and/or cuddles, instead of killing time by murdering the wildlife and risking their own in fights/traffic.
No one considers an unleashed dog outside on its own ok. Cats were never any different.
