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Providing Outdoor Litter Boxes
Keep cats from using gardens, yards or other undesirable areas to eliminate in by providing an outdoor litterbox. It's easy to set-up, easy to maintain and a great way to help neighbors and cats coexist.
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Cats Fighting
Cats are territorial, which can lead to fighting over food, water, shelter, or a specific location. This fighting behavior is common among cats who aren't spayed or neutered. Through Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), nuisance behaviors such as fighting, spraying, yowling, and roaming are eliminated.
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New Cats
While caring for an outdoor cat colony, you might notice new members joining the group. After all, you're providing food, water, and outdoor shelter, and word gets around that it's the place to be! Sometimes, though, new cats behave more wildly than the cats already in the colony.
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Caring for Neonatal Kittens
Alley Cat Allies Kitten Care guide is here to help with your newborn (or neonatal) kitten. Learn tips like what milk to feed kittens and how to burp them.
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5 Important Steps to Adopting a Cat to the Best Home Possible
The stray cat you are trying to place in a home deserves one that is loving, compassionate, and safe. To make that a reality, follow these important steps in the adoption process.
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Foster Cat Adoption Tips
If you've found a friendly stray cat and have looked for her previous home without success, you can try to find her a new forever family while you foster her. Follow these steps to help get your foster kitty adopted.
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How to Find a Stray Cat’s Home
Want to know where to take stray cats when you find them? Follow these Alley Cat Allies tips to help you find a stray cat's home.
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Help A Cat Become Comfortable in a New Environment
Stressful situations may cause a cat to behave in ways that seem frightened or aggressive. Learn how to interpret and respond to cat behaviors with tips from Alley Cat Allies and cat expert Joan Miller. You may be able to soothe a stressed stray cat and increase her chances for adoption.
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Adoption
It's important to know that if you don't feel like you have the time and resources to take in a friendly cat, that's OK. In that case, though, it really is best to leave her where she is after Trap-Neuter-Return.
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Addressing Abandonment
Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is a common-sense practice for colonies of cats who live around human dwellings and buildings. They have strong bonds with their family groups and are very attached to their domain. So, when you return a cat to where she was trapped as part of Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), you are as the name says returning her to her domain. Her home. TNR is not abandonment.