Can your cat roam outside your garden?

[CroccyWoccy]

If you have a cat that has access to the outdoors, can it get out of your garden and roam further afield? And if so, can it or does it get to a road?

Trying to adopt another cat and one of the objections raised by a cat rescue is that a cat could get out of our back garden, round the front of our house and onto the (very quiet) road at the front.

This strikes me as a perfectly ordinary set up and that most people don't have a cat-proofed garden? Or am I wrong?

My cats are sadly deceased, but no. I do not let cats free roam. I have had a cat proofed garden and a patio. I preferred the former, as my cats seemed happier with it.

Mine aren't allowed out to roam. The main road at the back of our house is too busy for my liking, and sadly, there's a high number of cats who have been hit and left for dead on there in recent years.

We have a cat-proofed garden and plenty of cat furniture, but they also have each other for company and play which I think makes a big difference too.

My cats both roam, although in at night. One has a tracker and mostly he stays within the block (so left and right into gardens and then into the ones that back onto my garden), some days he does for quite an adventure, a few blocks away, into the field at the back. He has a tracker due to his fondness for walking into other people's houses and sheds and getting locked in 🙄

Due to his climbing ability and general cunningness I wouldn't be able to keep him in my garden and it would cost too much due to size