Okay, I have questions for y'all.
My daughter has been begging for a cat, and I've promised to get one before the year is out. All of us love cats but we can't have one indoors as two of us are (very) allergic and an indoors animal explicitly does not have WAF.
Where I grew up, cats were exclusively outdoor animals/pets. In the US it's a bit different and there are a lot of admonishments online about keeping cats outdoors. But we have plenty of outdoor cats in our neighborhood and many of them have been around a long time. We don't have coyotes around.
We live in a pretty temperate climate. Winters typically don't get to freezing. Summers are hot but we have lots of shade and shade trees. Long story short, I am trying to figure out how we are going to get a cat and introduce it to our home without actually having it indoors.
I have a garage which is an active woodworking workshop, but I can put a pause on all noisy/scary activities for the duration of the time it takes to introduce the cat to the home. The garage is attached to the house but no door directly between. So I was thinking of keep kitty in the garage for a few weeks, putting food/water and a box/bed there, and a litter box in a different corner, then eventually moving the cat's sleeping arrangement outdoors by making or buying a nice large cat home with insulation and windows.
Is this feasible? Something I am overlooking?
