>>914606
>cars, getting eaten
It's not an issue if you're an engaged adoptive parent because when it comes down to it survival is mostly about having good pattern recognition abilities i.e. a high IQ. Any animal has a higher IQ when exposed to more stimulation during the prepubescent phase of maturity. Hell, machine-learning algorithms even have this phenomenon: supervised learning. Cats raised indoors have far less developed brains because they have less to worry about. Outdoor cats do have to worry about loud scary noises that can kill them, but if they're exposed to it in their youth they quickly learn the correct actions to take when exposed that pattern. You have to go outside with them at first of course and give them feedback when they do dangerous things, like a child. The risk that they'll get eaten is about the same risk as you getting killed by a nigger (who surprise surprise will have a short shitty life because he didn't have engaged parents either) and you aren't afraid to leave the house. The biggest risk is disease/parasites, but that can be mitigated by you learning the signs and paying shitloads of money to a vet to rectify it. But that's too much work for you, you can't afford the vet, and/or you viewed cats as cute automatons before this post so you shouldn't have a pet. Stick to waifu pillows, faggot.
>What point are you trying to make?
Damn, you're even lower IQ than I thought. My point is that life expectancy risk doesn't work like how you obviously think it does. There is not some number that goes down in the inner workings of the universe and when it reaches zero you die. It's probabilistic and it's a complex system (I don't just mean it's "complicated" by that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system). If you take measures to counter the source of the risk, or just get lucky, you're fine. And the vast majority of outdoor cats are, just like how most humans lived to 65 thousands of years ago...if they didn't die before they turned 20. Of course, many did die in wars back then so their life expectancy went down.
>Things that kill them are healthier than things that don't?
The point of them going outside isn't to die. It sounds like you're some normalfag so I'll try to break this down in a way you can comprehend (that means understand). Every time you use a car, your life expectancy goes down by a lot. It is the number one cause of untimely death. Yet having a car benefits you in so many other ways. You need it to enter the place where 100% of the moving cars are (the roadway network) to get money which you need to get food. While it's true that cats don't need to leave the house to get food, they are satisfying equally primal instincts by going outside and hunting. All animals evolved to get a dopamine spike (a thing your brain produces when you feel good) when they take actions that generally benefits their species. You know how you feel good when you have dopamine? Cats experience that too! They experience that when they self-actualize and solve problems exactly like we do. They are one of the few other animals who evolved to enjoy exploring. And you want to lock them to a little house. I'm sure if you have tortured your cats, you've already broken their spirit-
>The others were curious until we brought them onto the porch *during a snowstorm.* They haven't tried going outside again.
However much intellectual humiliation I just inflicted upon you, it wasn't enough.
For the record I've had a cat for the past 6 years. We've moved around a bunch and in every place she is a free cat. The worst thing that has happened to her so far is fleas. I do put the disgusting flea repellent stuff on her, but she dislikes fleas too and more importantly that 2 minute process doesn't prevent her from self-actualizing and living to her full potential as a cat. I lost track of how many kills she has but it's got to be around 100 by now and several of those were birds. Every single time I get equally excited. She can unironically do things that I can't, which benefit me. You can't catch moles in mousetraps and poison can fuck up the entire yard. And I've helped her too of course as well. For a while we had a fox lurking the neighborhood, and yes, we hear about cat deaths in the neighborhood. My cat hissed and ran away to a safe spot immediately every time with no issue because she was raised well. She knows not to bite off more than she can chew. Some of it was good genes I'm sure as well. One day my roommate (my cat) informed me that fucking fox was outside, so I ran out with katana and screamed. I truly was actively looking forward to killing it although in the end it got away. That little bitch NEVER encroached on our territory again. If only I was as good of a hunter as my cat...
tl;dr if you simply want to rub a warm furry thing while you're watching anime, get a dog. if you're excuse is that dogs are "too much work" get a hamster