What affects us affects cats
Conclusion: There are around 90 million free-roaming and feral cats in the USA as at 2022 broken down to 30 million free-roaming domestic cats and 60 million feral cats. This number can’t be set in concrete as the raw information is not very accurate as it is very hard to count cats both domestic …
The City of Peterborough in Ontario Canada has created a bylaw under which cat owners can no longer let their cats roam freely. Similar bylaws have been created at Sudbury and Brampton. There seems to be a trend against free-roaming cats. The bylaw was passed by the committee on June 20, 2016. In addition …
This is a nice infographic on free-living cats who have been ear-tipped (or notched) under a TNR program. I like it and it is the first time I have seen one of these. All cat lovers know what ear-tipping and TNR are but not everyone knows about these things. A nicely prepared infographic sums …
If you have an adventurous indoor-outdoor kitty who passionately enjoys his or her daily alfresco explorations, I will bet my bottom dollar that from time to time you may become curious about in which areas your cat hangs out and the extent of his preferred territory. But it is not only those who have …
In general, domestic cats are allowed to roam freely in America. However, a few states, counties or cities have specific ordinances (laws) which in effect disallow domestic cats from roaming. I won’t go into great detail for the simple reason that the situation is a little bit messy or disjointed legally but I will …
