@5bb3243a Even in the USA, even in the *urban* USA, this is more of an ongoing culture war than settled issue.  It's a reliable fight-starter anywhere on social media, because there are absolutist zealots on both the "outdoor cats are an immoral abomination" and on the "keeping cats exclusively indoor is cruel" sides of the debate.  Although I do believe that the "outdoor cats are an abomination" forces have been "winning" in a sheer-volume-of-rhetoric sense in recent years.