Cold Weather Tips for Cats
When temperatures drop, people naturally wonder how they can help cats who live outdoors.
If you find yourself concerned for community cats in cold weather, it’s important to remember that these cats’ home is the great outdoors. As a species, cats have always lived outside and thrived in all varieties of locations, weather conditions …
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Wildlife Concerns
… deterring wildlife from outdoor shelters for cats, caregivers often provide multiple shelters to accommodate them all. See some outdoor shelter options.
Safety from Predators
There are some locations where cats are threatened by predators such as coyotes. Providing outdoor shelters will help cats keep safe, but it’s important that the shelters have multiple doorways …
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How to Catch a Feral or Stray Cat with a Trap
… people.
Focus on targeted trapping. Your trapping results will be more successful if you target a specific colony or area of cats. The more cats in one location, the more cats you will likely trap in one day.
Cats don’t like being in traps. A trapped cat is not necessarily a happy cat. It …
Post-Surgery Care
… a clean trap if the newspaper becomes soiled during recovery. Clean any soiled traps and reline them with fresh newspaper.
8. Return the cats to the same location where you trapped them.
Early morning is a good time, as it is quieter. Point the traps away from roads or high-traffic areas so the cats …
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TNR Scenarios: Hard to Trap Cats
… you’ll get them! Try these 18 tips:
1. Get them comfortable with the trap.
Feed trap-shy cats out of unset traps in their normal feeding locations for a week or two before trapping again. Start with the food right by the entrance of the trap and gradually move it closer to the back …
Summer Weather Tips
… can mix a little water into the wet food. Take care not to thin it out too much, or cats may not eat it.
Identify the best location to provide food (and water). Ensure food and water stations are separated from litter boxes or areas where cats are known to use the bathroom. Make sure …
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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. If this is your first time performing TNR, take a …
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New Cats
… new cats appear, spring into action right away to get them trapped and spayed or neutered. Since they’re new and could just be visiting from another location, this might be your only chance to trap them. Follow the same protocols for trapping these cats as you followed for the original colony members. If you …
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A Quarter Century of Cat Advocacy
… the cats. The work has already begun. Alley Cat Allies’ Future Five: Shelter Partners to Save Cats’ Lives program was established to create a set of model shelters across a variety of locations and circumstances. Already, incredible change has taken place. They’re saving more animals; increasing spay, neuter, and vaccination access; and ensuring the
Celebrating 25 Years of Cat Advocacy
… already begun. Alley Cat Allies’ Future Five: Shelter Partners to Save Cats’ Lives program was established to create a set of model shelters across a variety of locations and circumstances. The Future Five shelters have already taken amazing strides to save cats. They’re saving more animals, increasing spay, neuter, and vaccination access, and ensuring …