Sentences with phrase «intact cats»

If this behavior happens out in a free - range environment with intact cats, or if we see it on a nature program, it's something we understand as normal animal behavior.

We also found that the estimated percentage of owned intact cats that were spayed or neutered was higher for the 18 - month period in the intervention area than any of the control areas.

Until spaying and neutering pets became available and accessible around the 1930s, keeping intact cats indoors was messy business during mating season.

The final estimates of the percentage of owned intact cats that were spayed or neutered within the intervention and control areas were then compared to each other.

«You do not want a sexually intact cat in your home,» Lefebvre says.

The message has sunk in, as intact cats result in less than 15 percent of all kittens ending up in shelters.

However, contrary to our predictions, we found no significant differences in home - range areas of sterilized and reproductively intact cats of either sex.

Intact cats fight more than spayed or neutered cats.

We predicted that home ranges of sterilized cats would be smaller than those of intact cats because the former would not wander as far in search of mates.

Dr. Maura of Victor Vet states, «having more intact cats around carrying these diseases also increases risk of a pet encountering an infected feral cat and becoming infected fighting over territory.»

Intact cats involved in territorial disputes will be likely to mark what they consider to be their territory.

They do want to see cat populations stabilized and often appreciate when some of the behaviors manifested by intact cats are brought into check.

The only intact cats should be those purebreds owned by breeders and held for breeding purposes.

Intact cats tend to wander from home, seeking a mate or defending their territory.

Upon obtaining the cat it is a very friendly young male intact cat with either deformed or amputated back legs.

Similar proportions (60/252, 23.8 %) of declawed vs. (168/613, 27.4 %) intact cats bit family members; 2.3 % of each seriously enough for medical attention

What doesn't require a computer model to predict, though — what we already know — is that hormonally intact cats are at greater risk of FeLV and FIV infection, [1] more likely to roam, resulting in disappearance and / or death, [2] and more prone to the nuisance behaviors [3, 4] that so often result in their impoundment and death.

That happens when intact cats inflict deep bite wounds during mating battles.

We found evidence of considerable long - distance movement of both sterilized and intact cats between the wildland interior and developed areas; most of the cats moving long distances were females.

In a study just released in the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, «Pain and adverse behavior in declawed cats,» researchers studied 137 declawed cats, with a control group of 137 paw - intact cats matched for age.

Studies have estimated that more than 60 to 80 % of remaining intact cats (Budke and Slater 2009, Miller et al 2014) in the group must be sterilized each year for the population to decline over time.

It is well known that sterilizing a female dog before her first estrus virtually eliminates the risk of mammary cancer and more recent research has revealed that compared with its incidence in sexually intact cats, cats spayed before their first heat cycle have a 91 % reduced risk of developing mammary gland cancer.

Found that 16 % of cats developed house - soiling (4 %) or biting (12 %) after declawing; more than twice as many declawed cats as intact cats were referred to the behavior service.

Reproductively intact cats — both males and females — are more inclined to mark their territory by «spraying».

Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) is spread by bites and intact cats fight a great deal more than altered cats.

It stabilizes the population of cats and stops them from breeding along with the unwelcome behaviors often associated with intact cats.

Why they harm cats: mandatory spay and neuter laws ignore community cats, who represent the vast majority of intact cats — only three percent of these cats are neutered, as opposed to 82 percent of all pet cats.

It is also difficult or impossible to capture all resident cats so sexually intact cats that haven't been captured repopulate an area quickly.

For felines, the urge to spray is extremely strong in an intact cat, and the simplest solution is to get yours neutered or spayed by 4 months of age before there's even a problem.

It is recommended that outside, intact cats be vaccinated for feline leukemia, because it will offer some level of protection against the virus, as these cats run the highest risk of contracting the disease.

Average neutered cats require 1.2 x (intact cats 1.4 x) their Resting Energy Requirements (RER) to maintain their weight.

Back in their territory, they will be less prone to fighting, roaming and mating behaviours associated with intact cats and, best of all, they will no longer contribute to an increasing feline population.

The benefits of TNR programs include the direct reduction of nuisance behaviors associated with intact cats, the improvement of welfare for the cats, and the gradual reduction of populations in some situations (Levy 2004).

While it's true that the researchers found «no significant differences... in home - range areas or overlap between sterilized and intact cats,» [11] this has as much due to their tiny sample size as anything else.

Because neutered cats fight much less than intact cats, transmission of FIV can be significantly reduced through neuter programs.

Cats who were neutered and older than six months of age, or who were relinquished by an owner, were more likely to be protected, suggesting rates of immunity may be even lower in kitten populations, and in stray or intact cats.

For cats, the urge to spray is extremely strong in an intact cat, and the simplest solution is to get yours neutered or spayed by 4 months of age before there is even a problem.

Cat intake typically has a sinusoidal shape, following the ebb and flow that comes from the seasonal mating of intact cats, whose offspring flow into animal shelters.

Spayed female cats lived 39 % longer and neutered male cats lived 69 % longer than intact cats.

Because the desire to produce offspring is so strong in animals that have not been fixed, intact cats and dogs will go to extremes for the chance to mate.

These cats and their offspring are the victims of abandonment (view our abandonment flyer) accidental loss or the result of pet owners who allow their intact cats to roam freely and breed unchecked.

For cats, the urge to spray is extremely strong in an intact cat, and the simplest solution is to get yours neutered or spayed by 4 months of age before there's even a problem.

For cats, the urge to spray is extremely strong in an intact cat, and the simplest solution is toget yours neutered or spayed by 4 months of age before there's even a problem.

If the problem is indeed marking behavior, intact cats should be neutered or spayed.