Every effort is made to find the owners of
stray tame cats.
Not exact matches
Tame, friendly
stray cats can and should be picked up off the street and adopted into homes again.
Tame cats can either be 1) someone's owned pet
cat or 2) a friendly
stray cat making his or her way on the street.
Stray cats are generally
tame and handleable.
The
cats in a colony share a common food source and territory and may include not only ferals, but also
strays - former pet
cats who were recently lost or abandoned and are still
tame.
Unlike feral
cats, the ASPCA defines
stray cats as those that have been abandoned or become lost, tend to be
tame and can be comfortable around people.
Often we arrive to rescue one mother and kittens, only to find many more
cats which have not been reported to us but are in urgent need of help For instance, whilst attending to collect a
stray cat having difficulty giving birth on a doorstep, we were beckoned across to help with a mother and five feral 7 - week old kittens in a back garden and a
tame heavily pregnant
cat living in another front garden.
This population is made up of of
strays, who are lost or abandoned
tame pet
cats (some of whom have regressed to a not - so -
tame state), and ferals, the essentially wild (that is, not socialized to humans) offspring and descendants of non-neutered
strays and pets who were allowed to roam.
(A
stray is a
tame cat that used to be owned by someone but now lives on the streets after running away or getting lost.
The Feline Fix is able to offer quality affordable spay / neuter surgeries and other services for
tame,
stray, and feral
cats due to the support of our donors, volunteers, community partners, fundraising events, and grants.
The group, founded in 2007, also provides a free, full - time spay and neuter clinic for homeless
stray and feral
cats, plus low - cost, spay and neuter services for
tame pet
cats.
Hissing and growling are self - defense behaviors, which, over time, may change as the animal (whether «feral» or «
stray») begins to trust humans that provide food, water, and care.Feral
cats that are born and living outdoors, without any human contact or care, have been shown to be adoptable and can be
tamed by humans, provided they are removed from a wild environment before truly feral behaviors are established.
Sometimes feral
cats are also referred to as free - roaming
cats or community
cats, though those terms are a bit broader, including
tame cats who have become
stray,
cats who are «owned» but are allowed to roam, and others who spend time outdoors but are not truly feral.
Stray cats who have been homeless for a long time often revert to feral behavior, but can sometimes be
tamed again if the duration of homelessness has not been terribly long or difficult.
Looking critically at the concept of «
stray» as applied to
cats, Berkeley argued that
cats are by nature less a domesticated species than easily
tamed wildlife.