Sentences with phrase «expectancy of an outdoor cat»
The life expectancy of an outdoor cat is just 2 to 5 years compared to indoor pets who may live as long as 17 years or more.
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The risk of disease and injury by other means is incredibly high, making the life expectancy of an outdoor cat between 2 and 5 years on average.
A common «statistic» is that life expectancies of outdoors cats is between 2 and 5 years.
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Dr. Robynne Ferguson reports that «2 years is the average life expectancy of an unaltered outdoor male cat».
So the cats who arrive on my doorstep as strays / dumped cats have, realistically, the following options: (1) if I don't intervene in their lives, they'll end up as feral cats, with short miserable life expectancies; (2) if I take them to the animal shelter, there's a better than 50 - 50 chance they'll be euthanized within thirty days; or (3) I can keep them as part of my crew of outdoor cats.