I think it's morally wrong to keep pets indoors, and I propose a solution...

[Mister Obvious]

I often think about how beat up outside cats tend to get...

I've got one around here who is always getting into fights.

He comes back with some of the most gnarly wounds...

Without a supply of food and water and some level of (outdoor) shelter, it's hard to imagine he'd survive as well as he has.

Then again, that supply of food/water might be what he keeps fighting to secure. Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

And I think about the indoor kitties and how they never get to go out. They may get to lay in a window sill behind a screen, which is far better than nothing...

But to think they'll potentially spend their whole lives inside one building makes me sad.

What's worse though? Going out there and getting ticks on them, getting in fights til they've got potentially life threatening wounds...

Or being indoors only getting to sniff the air through a screen? Sigh. I don't know...

I think it's this delicate balance between the good and the bad that makes the world go around.

That's what existence is... a constant friction. A constant weighing of the scales.