my grandparents dont allow cats inside. they live outside. we had a glass greenhouse that they sleep in and thats where cody slept too. everytime the raccoons came by, i would pop the door open to the sideyard and let cody go to town. eventually the varmints stopped coming to our house. Patton, however, gets a good walk everday and goes to the dog park where she can run. just to wait for a quiet day where i can let her run off leash at a nature preserve so she can catch somethign