Should my kitten stay inside the house?

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Yes

Yes, until it's older

No, it's used to being outside

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I recently adopted a 6 week old kitten that was born outside and has lived outside its whole life. It only wants to eat it's food outside and seems to like it outside better. But I feel so guilty leaving it on my screened in porch because it's so young and I don't want anything bad to happen. A lot of stray animals live in the area. Plus I feel like the kitten may think I'm pushing it away when all I want is for it to be comfortable. Help please. 😧

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NaturallyPeculiar · 26-30, F

I don't believe in outside cats. Letting your cat roam around outside could shorten it's life span. A number of things could happen. It can get attacked by another animal and either die or contract a nasty disease, someone could kill it either my accident (with their car) or on purpose (there are psychos who love torturing cats), and other ways. It would be best to keep the cat on a screened in porch and slowly introduce it to being inside the house more.