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Originally Posted by Sainters7
I think its hard to do once theyve got a taste for outside. I have a cat which was originally a street cat, and it loves being outside. After a few years I tried to phase it out from being out there and let it out less and less. Actually at one point I didnt let her out for a solid six months straight. Yet still she whined and whined to get out. I finally gave up and started letting her out sparingly again, she never seemed to tire of it.
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Same with my cat. She too was rescued off the street and she often whines to go outside. My back yard is fenced off, but there are a few spots where I think she could squeeze under or squeeze through, so I don't let her out unattended. But when it was time to go back in she didn't want to go, so she tried bounding up my apple tree. I had just clipped her nails recently, so she wasn't able to scamper up... all she could do was hang on. It was absolutely hilarious - she was 3 inches off the ground, stuck and meowing for someone to save her.
Jayems: Sorry to hear about your cat. Our terrier once escaped the yard to hunt down a rabbit that was heading into the woods. She was unable to find her way home. We searched the woods, calling her for days with no luck. We had pretty much given up hope after two weeks - when we came home one day and someone had anonymously returned the dog and put her in a dog bed outside our door (address was on dog tag). The person who returned the dog did phone us 3 weeks later to ensure that the dog was doing okay but she absolutely refused to accept a reward. We even tried to do a reverse look-up on the phone number to find this person with no luck. The good Samaritan said that the dog had made it to the other side of the woods - 10 miles away! So don't give up too quickly - miracles do happen.