Sentences with phrase «posed by outdoor cats»

Not exact matches

The outdoor dangers range from diseases and injuries from battles with other cats (who can also be the source of those diseases), to predators such as owls and other large birds of prey, to roaming dogs, or their wilder counterparts such as foxes, and of course, the very real danger posed by cars.

Witness, for example, a paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Wildlife Diseases, in which the authors suggest that outdoor cats pose a threat to Hawaii's state bird, the Nene (or Hawaiian goose), by spreading the parasite Toxoplasma gondii.

The «foxtails» can pose a number of health - related problems for outdoor cats and dogs by burrowing into their fur and skin or falling into open ears, eyes, and mouths.