The Life of an Outdoor Cat
This presentation is made possible by information presented on the Community Concern for Cats website.
Being unneutered is a hard life for cats living outdoors.
VISION: To end the suffering of cats that are abandoned and homeless in our communities by rescuing, spaying and neutering, providing needed medical care, and helping to find every adoptable cat a loving, permanent home.
Mating is a call of nature but not a pleasant experience for the female.
VISION: To end the suffering of cats that are abandoned and homeless in our communities by rescuing, spaying and neutering, providing needed medical care, and helping to find every adoptable cat a loving, permanent home.
When she has kittens, she must find a nesting place that is safe and warm to protect her young kittens from the elements and predators (raccoons and other wildlife that will eat the kittens, and tom cats that will sometimes kill them). VISION: To end the suffering of cats that are abandoned and homeless in our communities by rescuing, spaying and neutering, providing needed medical care, and helping to find every adoptable cat a loving, permanent home.
The nest must be near a reliable food source to keep her and the kittens healthy and many don’t find that reliable source. Ever vigilant, she is under pressure to snatch her food quickly and get back to her babies to protect them.
VISION: To end the suffering of cats that are abandoned and homeless in our communities by rescuing, spaying and neutering, providing needed medical care, and helping to find every adoptable cat a loving, permanent home.
She will often protect her babies with her life and she suffers grief when she loses them.
VISION: To end the suffering of cats that are abandoned and homeless in our communities by rescuing, spaying and neutering, providing needed medical care, and helping to find every adoptable cat a loving, permanent home.
Male cats grow up to be a slave to their hormones.
VISION: To end the suffering of cats that are abandoned and homeless in our communities by rescuing, spaying and neutering, providing needed medical care, and helping to find every adoptable cat a loving, permanent home.
They fight for territory, they fight for the females in heat, and they fight for food.
VISION: To end the suffering of cats that are abandoned and homeless in our communities by rescuing, spaying and neutering, providing needed medical care, and helping to find every adoptable cat a loving, permanent home.
It is a sad, hard life where they often end up contracting diseases from other males, causing their lives to end painfully. VISION: To end the suffering of cats that are abandoned and homeless in our communities by rescuing, spaying and neutering, providing needed medical care, and helping to find every adoptable cat a loving, permanent home.
From fighting they get abscesses and torn ears. They mark their territory by spraying and they are stinky!
VISION: To end the suffering of cats that are abandoned and homeless in our communities by rescuing, spaying and neutering, providing needed medical care, and helping to find every adoptable cat a loving, permanent home.
All this could be avoided simply by neutering. There is no better way to immediately improve the quality of life for cats than to spay or neuter them. VISION: To end the suffering of cats that are abandoned and homeless in our communities by rescuing, spaying and neutering, providing needed medical care, and helping to find every adoptable cat a loving, permanent home.
Our Mission: To humanely address the problem of cat overpopulation at the source through rescue and sterilization of domesticated, stray and feral cats and by educating caretakers of cats to do the responsible thing by spaying or neutering domesticated cats.
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We need your financial support in order to even make a dent in the Clarksville cat overpopulation. Your donations help us purchase spay/neuter vouchers to subsidize the cost of altering stray, feral, and domesticated cats whose caretakers can't afford the cost. Together we can provide the necessary education and services to make our Clarksville neighborhoods better and improve the lives of cats who do not have a forever home.
Thank you for helping to improve the lives of Clarksville feral cats!
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