Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "I Tested My Cats' DNA using BasePaws | Family Tree of Cat Breeds" video.

8:31 It's so weird to hear about how Americans think that letting cat's have freedom outside is bad when we over here think it's basically animal cruelty to keep them indoor... Mind you, there are differences between Europe and the US. Different car cultures and a different wildlife.
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@UsefulCharts They might live longer outside. But it's a matter of quality of life. As for why I consider it a difference. The US has more cars and less walkable enviroment so I believe there's a higher risk of the cat being run over. Simply due to the differences in city planning. Animals there are also less afraid of humans, so there's more risk of predators capable of killing a cat being close to human inhabitation while our predators have experienced so many generations of hunting that they avoid us at any cost and can't be found near our settlements where they might encounter our cats. There's also differences in what diseases are present. For instance rabies is a thing in the US, while it's essentially extinct on the mainland in my own country. Now keeping cats indoor is better for other animals, since cats tend to be proficient hunters. And the American wildlife isn't even close to being adapted to dealing with cats. They're a tough match for our animals too, but at least they've lived with cats for long enough to not go extinct because of them anymore (the animals that could be driven to extinction by cats have already done so). So there's definitively differences between the continents there.
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@UsefulCharts Yep, all the anti-outdoor articles I'm seeing seems to be English language ones. Norwegian ones seems to be neutral mostly arguing in that the personality is the deciding factor. When I look at German ones it seems like more focus is on the neigbourhood with the articles advicing against it if there's busy roads nearby, forests that's being used for hunting nearby or if there's neighbours nearby that might dislike (or hate) cats. Canadian french articles seems to share your view... Okey, so far out of 3 french articles 2 are negative to outdoor life (one canadian one and one whose nationality I'm not sure of, and one is more neutral but focuses more on what a cat actually needs in their territory be it outdoor or indoor. The later of these seems more credible though given that it cites professors in cat behavior etc from several different countries. One American, one Italian and one Swizz. Some of these experts worked on trying to prove that indoor life is not harmfull to the cats, studying multiple cats sharing the same house without a garden for instance and how high or low the conflict level between them where. I'm still working on going through work about the topic in various languages. I'll get back to you on this in a bit.
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