[WanderingJuniper]

Our cat was adopted from a shelter. He had zero interest in going outside for the first 2 years he lived with us to the point that we could leave the doors open and he would just sit and watch us outside through the doors. But the longer he lived here the more he watched us spend so much of the warm weather outside the braver he got. He is now an indoor outdoor cat during mild weather. In the morning he goes out does a loop of the house and comes right back in. If it’s nice he will hang outside with us. Seriously he is always within sight if we are out there and if we are in the driveway he will wait on the grass. Cars scare him. He has created a cat door of sorts in our sliding screen door so he can come and go as he pleases in the summer but he just goes and lays on the deck to nap then come back in. He does hunt and climb trees and our home is very cat friendly with enrichment. He has a pile to climb a padded perch to sit on toys and treats in every room but the master.

We tried to harness train him but it was just too stressful for him to put the harness on and when we realized he literally was not going anywhere we figured the stress of the harness was more detrimental than him willingly following us around outside.