Hedgiemama,no,my cats are never outside on their own,hubby was with them.
We have a reasonably large back-yard and the cats have been trained from kitten-hood to stay there,with supervision of course.
Yeah,we got a lot of snow,hubby has already used the snowblower 3 times,that's about the same as all last winter
Aslan we would have loved to have met Echo,but the cats would not
we could have stuck them in a bed-room though.