Bird flu experts say your outdoor cat should stay inside, but is that even possible? Updated February 27, 2025 Share Article If you have an outdoor cat, then you might be used to finding gory gifts around your home: a decapitated mouse tucked inside your shoe, a limp lizard lying on your pillow, a few blood-tinged feathers underneath your desk chair. And while cleaning up these well-intentioned presents is a nuisance, it’s usually just annoying, rather than something to worry about. You might...

Over the past several days, I’ve spent more time than I care to admit standing at my kitchen window, staring down from my fourth-floor apartment at my neighbor’s house across the street, where a crew of workers has been busily constructing a Christmas display that would make Clark Griswold proud. They decorated that house for the first time last year, and gazing down at those twinkling lights made the 5 p.m. winter darkness much easier to bear. So, when a truck pulled up last weekend and I...