Quote Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl View Post
Dear newly adopted kitty Sheba,
Can you please keep in mind now that although you used to live as a street urchin ......
I'm not sure if they ever *totally* get over it.... I found my boy kitty abandoned by his mother outside when he was about 7-9 weeks old. He escaped once for a few hours, but otherwise hasn't been outside for years... Just last week when I had a really heavy bag of groceries in my arms he decided to pull a runner. I dropped the bag and dove after him. He got about 4 feet and ran in a bush (fortunately this is all in the little 10 foot breezeway between my house and my neighbors). I belated closed my back door (girl kitty looking out... what's all the fuss??) to keep the other cat in and dove back for Koji. He ran to the door (which I had closed), and finding the way blocked ran for my neighbors back yard. My neighbor heard the commotion and was starting out his back door, which scared the cat back into my arms - where in he was promptly deposited back in the house.... whew....

I don't know why he did it, because it scares him half to death to be outside. Still I have to watch him when I come inside, because he's always trying to stick his nose out of the door. Sometimes I wonder if I should leash train him. I'm not sure my girl (from the humane society) has ever been outside. I've never really tempted her, but I think you could leave her in front of an open door and she'd just sit there looking out.