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Unknown cat brings dead birds to your front door and meows. What does it mean?

There is a stray cat in the community. You don’t know the cat and yet she consistently brings dead birds to your front door and meows until you come out. What does this mean? It isn’t unique but probably quite unusual. The way to try and understand this is to refer to the mother-kitten relationship. …

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50% of stray cats have ear infections causing great discomfort. Are we happy to accept it?

A study from Italy published in 2013 found a very high prevalence of otitis externa in stray cats. What is this? “Otitis” refers to inflammation of the ear. “Externa” refers to the external apparatus of the ear which means the ear canal and ear flap. So were talking about infections in the part of the …

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Poor boy Murphy was sprayed for fleas but needs an x-ray and a complete panel as well

Picture of stray cat Murphy encapsulates the hard life they can lead

This is a photo that caught my eye, and when photos do arrest me, I like to spread ‘the word’ – pictures are worth a thousand words. The caption from registered non-profit in Ontario, Canada, Project Save Animals is as follows: “Poor boy Murphy was sprayed for fleas but needs an x-ray and a complete …

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95% of stray cats have worms and 57% scavenge potentially life-threatening refuse

AUSTRALIA: A study published in 2020 highlights two major health problems concerning stray cats, namely parasites and the quality of the food that they eat. Stray cats are not feral cats. They are domestic cats that have strayed from their home for one reason or another. They might have got lost for instance. They may …

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Stray black cat asked to be cared for by passing person. They responded.

Do you think that stray, unwanted cats follow people because they’ve chosen them to live with?

It is a photograph of a black cat sleeping on a couch on the Reddit.com website. The photographer said: “I found him outside the gym, kept following me, what should I name him?” It’s a cool title to the photograph because he or she is saying that they adopted this cat without saying it. They …

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A changed expression for this ginger boy who was the saddest cat

Stray went from the saddest cat to the happiest cat in a couple of hours

You may have heard of him; his name is Mister Bruce Willis. I’m told that he spent six years as an unloved, lonely stray cat on the streets during which he acquired significant health issues which is unsurprising bearing in mind the life he was forced to lead. His health problems included an eye injury, …

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Lottie as found as a stray and after TLC from RSPCA. Pictures: RSPCA Derbyshire.

Transformational care reveals beauty beneath bedraggled stray cat

This story of before and after cat rescue comes from Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, UK. The skinny, urine-stained, bedraggled stray cats looks different now. Lottie, a stray cat, was brought to the RSPCA center at Hillfield Lane, Stretton in a bad way. Her fur was falling out, she was underweight, urine stained and bedraggled. Underneath that stray …

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