My 2nd cat was a strictly indoor cat her first 3 or 4 years. When we moved to the middle of nowhere, I gave her the outdoor option.
I carried her out to the stairs to the porch, and held her in my lap. She looked around, and very plainly said "The ceiling is too high up. The walls are too far away. I'm going back in."
This one started off doing something similar, but less extreme, and in that "lots of things are still new and scary but my job is to figure out which ones to get used to" way that you'd expect of a 6-month kitten.
I have one of those! She's 17 and spent alot of time as a young one in one room of my apt (I was in college at the time.). The few times she's managed to get out of the house, she's looked around, hissed and run as fast as possible under something.
Currently, she lives under my bed, only coming out when someone (usually me) is lying on the bed. Then she sleeps on my pillow. :-)
one more little kitty story
I carried her out to the stairs to the porch, and held her in my lap. She looked around, and very plainly said "The ceiling is too high up. The walls are too far away. I'm going back in."
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I can picture an agoraphobic adult cat.
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Currently, she lives under my bed, only coming out when someone (usually me) is lying on the bed. Then she sleeps on my pillow. :-)
'berta