Feral Cat Day was started to promote and support efforts to care for feral cats in various communities around the United States. It has spread to include cities and towns in Canada. Feral Cat Day helps animal groups such as the Humane Society, and Alley Cat Allies spread awareness about how to help feral cats.<\/p>\n
Feral cats<\/b> are also called outdoor or community cats \u2013 they are cats that who don\u2019t belong to any one person\/family. In general feral cats have been abandoned or are lost, or they are the offspring of abandoned or lost cats. Unlike strays and pets, feral cats are not socialized to humans and are not good candidates for adoption. Feral cats may live in colonies typically composed of related cats. Feral cat colonies tend to live in an area with access to shelter, and food (dumpsters or people that feed them). In general feral cats are relatively healthy. Stray cats<\/b> are lost or abandoned. The main difference is that they are socialized to humans. These cats are adoptable if they can\u2019t be reunited with their owners. Pet cats<\/b> are owned by a single person or family. While they may enjoy time outside they have a home they return to. Pet cats are socialized to humans.<\/p>\nProblems Cause by Feral Cats<\/h2>\n
Over population from feral cats is a huge problem. When these cats end up in shelters they end up euthanized because they are unadoptable. Other than over population feral cats cause several community nuisances. The main complaints listed by the Humane Society are:<\/p>\n
Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) has been identified as the best way to deal with feral cats. TNR decreases the number of feral cats over time. The process is very simple:<\/p>\n
If you\u2019d like to help the Humane Society has a list of things you can do: http:\/\/www.humanesociety.org\/issues\/feral_cats\/tips\/what_you_can_do_for_ferals.html?credit=web_id83565963<\/a> For more information on Feral Cat Day check out: http:\/\/nationalferalcatday.org\/about-national-feral-cat-day\/<\/a><\/p>\n Should you feed feral cats? Let us know what you think on our Facebook page<\/a> for a chance to win a pack of Cat Box Liners<\/a>. Deadline Oct. 21, 2014 at 11:55pm, for more information contact marketing@doo-n-go.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why Feral Cat Day Feral Cat Day was started to promote and support efforts to care for feral cats in various communities around the United States. It has spread to include cities and towns in Canada. Feral Cat Day helps animal groups such as the Humane Society, and Alley Cat Allies spread awareness about how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun-facts-about-pets-fr"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.doo-n-go.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/42-north-OE7H8Zp1mw8-unsplash.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doo-n-go.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doo-n-go.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doo-n-go.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doo-n-go.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doo-n-go.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.doo-n-go.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19758,"href":"https:\/\/www.doo-n-go.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions\/19758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doo-n-go.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doo-n-go.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doo-n-go.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doo-n-go.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What do you think\u2026<\/h2>\n