Booted

Today husband and I made the decision to have the cats outside 24/7. After coming home from vacation the upstairs loft was sprinkled with cat feces and urine. Ugh!! Our flight was delayed and we all didn't get home till midnight. Husband spent 20 minutes cleaning up the mess. I'm torn with this decision because our cats have mainly been indoors and I worry about their safety outside. But the loft is my children's play area. I can't have cat feces and urine spoiling the area with germs. I do not want my children playing with a toy that was sitting in a pool of urine and I didn't catch it in time.

Another factor making it difficult for me to accept this decision is that I strongly believe that it is only one cat doing this bad behavior. So I feel for my other kitty, or "squishy kitty" as I call him. Now he has to be outside just because he is "guilty by association". If we have one cat inside and one outside, one of the two will start crying because he can't be with the other. We can't have that as it will wake up the boys and us. Aargh! Whomever said that life isn't fair sure knew what they were talking about.