Monitoring the cats at street level means that fewer
kittens are born outdoors, fewer turn up in shelters competing for forever homes, and the health of cats that are returned to their outdoor colonies after sterilization and vaccination is significantly improved.
However, just because
a kitten was born outdoors, or a cat has been living in a colony does not mean they are destined to live their lives as community cats.
Not exact matches
Once in a while, we come across a
kitten or cat that
is either
born in an
outdoor colony or through back luck and unfortunate experiences
is just not socialized and therefore hard to adopt out.
Outdoor cats
are more likely to have this problem, as
are kittens born to stray or roaming cats.
These colds
are very common in cats at shelters and
kittens born outdoors.
Such cats include cats living with infected cats or with cats of unknown infection status, cats allowed
outdoors unsupervised where they may
be bitten by an infected cat, and
kittens born to infected mothers.