Why would we not? Why would we listen to a damn thing they have to say?

Quora is a very very bad source. You’ll find threads there in support of the flat earth! It’s as real as asking your neighbors knowing that none of them actually know and everyone is just repeating their own anecdotes. I on the other hand quoted UC Davis Veterinary Medicine. All the threats I mentioned are in fact very real.

You offer fanciful counters like the cars won’t be a problem if the driver stops! You are just trying to justify your outdoor cat which will die sooner than mine.

It’s weird that you respond to actual information based on what your feels tell you.

There are whole US states that are nothing but rural

There are in fact not. Smaller states still have cities and people tend to be concentrated around those cities ND the very definition of a shit hole state with nothing in it. 85% of its meager population lives in the metro areas surrounding its 5 biggest (for ND) cities. The other 15% live in the other 99% of the state.

Lets look at a population density map to better visualize this. https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2021/geo/population-distribution-2020.html

Outdoor cats just don’t live near as long on average. This isn’t about your feels its about reality its about stats.

Regarding the safety of rural areas. Dogs kill cats, cats kill other cats, raccoons kill cats, eagles and other predatory birds kill cats, cars kill cats, eating poisoned nuisance animals kills cats, coyotes kill cats.

Good think we don’t have to make up the answers when we can look them up!

14% of Americans live in rural settings

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/102576/eib-230.pdf

(warning large pdf) search for text 14 percent its on page 4.

The more comfortable life of an indoor cat significantly increases his lifespan. An indoor cat may live 15-17 years, while the life expectancy for outdoor cats is only 2-5 years, according to researchers at University of California-Davis.

https://www.petmd.com/cat/care/can-indoor-cat-be-part-time-outdoor-cat

It really is very very bad. rural areas may have less traffic but they also have more wild animals

The majority of human beings live in urban areas where its ridiculously unsafe for cats. In the city every outdoor cat is either abandoned or feral and neither particularly long for this world.

Outdoor cats live about 3-5 years, indoor cats live 10-20. Again shitty humans.

Cat’s in urban areas that aren’t socialized are always skittish. It’s about not being socialized to humans are a critical age. The areas that you are finding “friendly” strays are where people abandon former pets. Former pets were socialized at the critical age and want human contact.

Basically you are describing areas with shitty humans as areas with superior humans.

The article is 3 years old and some things are only presently being fixed NOW and due to filter down to stable distros in 2024. Furthermore wayland proponents have been claiming its totally ready for prime time and not broken at all since 2015 while promoting AMD GPUs that at that point in time still sucked hairy balls.