Sentences with phrase «outdoor cats often»

Owners of outdoor cats often provide their cats with litter trays in order to «monitor» the cat's toilet habits for health care reasons.

In part, because — and this, too, is becoming increasingly clear — a position opposed to TNR and the feeding of outdoor cats often, in fact, runs counter to an organization's stated vision.

Stray and outdoor cats often look for warm places to hide or sleep.

To be sure, advocates for outdoor cats often have their own scientific and ethical blind spots about cats on the whole and about nonlethal management strategies.

Outdoor cats often climb under the hoods of cars to keep warm.

Not exact matches

Outdoor cats are more likely to harbor ear mites, so they should be checked often.

Pet collars with id tags are great, but all too often come off, especially if your cat is outdoors, scared, and hiding in the bushes.

Cats that roam outdoors often get scrapes here and there and are at risk of getting into accidents or fights with other animals.

Outdoor cats can often be seen grazing on grass, which seems to be preferred to leafier plants.

Even indoor - only house cats often find ways to get outdoors when the sexual urge hits them.

Indoor cats often live more than 20 years, but outdoor cats — which are more likely to encounter illnesses, predators and busy streets — live half as long.

These completely fenced - in runs are often accessed by a «doggie - door» type of exit and allow cats access to the outdoors while maintaining the safety of being enclosed.

This includes cats that live outdoors, cats that go outdoors regularly, cats that tend to escape outdoors often, and cats that live with a leukemia positive cat.

Our work to keep pets in their homes also includes tools to resolve problem cat behaviors — the reason most often cited for cat relinquishments — and we are working to protect outdoor community cats and provide solutions to conflicts between cats and wildlife.

With an outdoor cat, you may not have to change out the litter in the litter - box as often.

Young cats, outdoor cats, and cats acquired from animal shelters should be checked more often.

Local authorities, often in the form of an animal control agency are charged with enforcing laws related to the control and impoundment of animals — including laws that may affect the feeding, spaying and neutering, and care of outdoor cats.

It's important to be familiar with the history of cat domestication, as those who oppose TNR often think community cats are homeless and don't belong outdoors.

Unsocialized feral cats have been living outdoors for thousands of years, but bringing them to shelters is often a deadly choice.

Often these cats are semi-feral and used to living outdoors with little interaction with people.

Outdoor access cats that are pushed out of their normal territory will often exhibit similar behaviors of displaced indoor only cats and seek immediate hiding places.

Cats that have lived indoors most of their lives often have a harder time successfully adjusting to living outdoors.

We've shown in our research of feral and stray outdoor cats that they often form complex social groups.

Cats that are allowed outdoors are exposed to traffic, disease, parasites and unkind people often have shorter lifespans.

Stray cats and feral cats who live outdoors often struggle to survive in winter, but in summer there are plenty of easy food choices, right?

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This is often the time when pet guardians may decide to allow their cat to go outdoors.

If your cats are normally permitted to go outdoors, you may need to keep them inside more often to reduce their time grazing at the neighbor's or hunting for birds and rodents.

Studies have shown that older cats visit the veterinarian less often than younger cats and that owners of indoor cats are less likely to place a priority on veterinary care than owners of outdoor cats

They also nest in backyard trees, which are often easily accessible to outdoor cats.

Often, pets such as dogs and even cats like to go outdoors for a little playtime or to bask in the sun.

Eventually they will start to hang around one or more reliable food sources (often a farm that is leaving food out for outdoor cats).

Cats allowed to go outdoors often begin «marking their territory» around the yard and then bring that behavior indoors.

Although our outdoor cat shelters have been sold for years, as people recognize the need for cats to have good shelter in cold weather, the issue of managing food and water in cat colonies is often overlooked.

A cat let outdoors will need to see the veterinarian a lot more often than an indoor cat, and that means higher vet bills.

Was the cat allowed to go outdoors and if so, how often, and was he or she supervised?

As we all know, many cats live happily outdoors and often time claim several families as their homes.

Conservationists say that, far from diminishing the population of unowned cats, trap and release programs may be making it worse, by encouraging people to abandon their pets to outdoor colonies that volunteers often keep lovingly fed.

Fleas, ticks, worms, abscesses, cuts, diarrhea, a dull coat, or weight loss are all signs of trouble and are most often seen in outdoor cats.

Indoor cats that occasionally get outdoors are often unprotected from infectious diseases as well.

Often cat owners that allow their cats to roam outdoors are surprised to find that their cat is continually crossing major streets and roaming far beyond their immediate neighborhood.

Outdoor cats may lose more hair in the spring and fall and retain more fur in the winter, while indoor cats can shed all year round because of the artificial light and generalized use of air conditioning and heating, both of which trick the cat's system and often lead to continual, rather than seasonal, shedding.

Even dogs who do chase small prey outdoors can often learn not to chase or harm cats indoors once they've grown accustomed to their household cats as family members.

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Bear in mind that outdoor cats tend to shed in the spring and fall, while indoor cats often shed all year long.

As I often point out, multiple large - scale surveys [4 — 6] have found that only about one - third of these cats are allowed outdoors at all — and most of them only for a few hours each day.

Another option is to build or buy an outdoor enclosure (often called a cattery or catio) for your cat.

The book's central thesis — that outdoor cats must be eradicated in the name of biodiversity and public health — is, like the authors» credibility, undermined to the point of collapse by weak — often contradictory — evidence, and a reckless arrogance that will be hard to ignore even for their fellow fring - ervationsists.

TNR is for any outdoor cat, so stray, feral and wild cats (and the occasional indoor / outdoor cat) are often presented to high volume sterilization clinics for the procedure.

Often recommended for outdoor cats.