Reply #23: I tried mightily to keep that cat inside.

[FlaGranny]

I got her at about 4 months old and I think she probably was raised outside. If anyone had the door open a crack she was out. I had a young boy, so the doors got opened a lot. I tried for a while to catch her and bring her back in, but she soon got wise to that and would just run off. I finally had to give up. She was a spayed female, so she didn't go far and we lived at the end of a dead end street. I had to have her put to sleep at age 17 (about 8 years) ago for liver trouble.