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Keeping them indoors
AWARENESS is gradually increasing that allowing domestic cats to roam free outdoors poses a series of problems for both the cats and the environment.
Experts warn that it can be hazardous to their health as it exposes them to numerous diseases, the risk of being run over or suffering other accidents, poisoning and aggression by other animals.
In addition, their access to the outdoors increases the risk of the cats becoming transmitters of zoonotic diseases, and owners are feeling increasingly responsible for the effect their pets have on wildlife, mainly through hunting.
A team of British investigators carried out a study of 355 domestic cats with access to the outside over a period of four weeks and within four groupswithout restrictions, with nocturnal restrictions, wearing collars with bells, and wearing collars with ultrasound technology to reduce their hunting activity.
OUTDOOR CATS: Can be hazardous to their health.
The research showed that preventing the cats from going out at night had the best results. However, the investigators added that suddenly restricting a motes socialisation and facilitates the treatment of separation anxiety, making it easier to leave the animals alone afterwards.
It is also said to be ideal to work on behaviour, as the carers use healthy snacks to train the dogs and the animals are reportedly much calmer when they are picked up after their session.
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cat’s movements could be harmful for its wellbeing, and advise owners to adapt their homes to cover the requirements the animals look for outside.
These include using interactive toys that mimic the movement of prey, creating hideyholes and elevated platforms, grass for them to sniff and cardboard boxes to hide and explore, and scratching posts.
FOOD banks for pets are on the rise in the UK to help owners who are struggling with the cost of living crisis and the trend looks set to continue.
One case is in Coventry, where Melinda Anthony runs a pet food bank by the Betty Ennis Foundation charity, supplying pet food and other animal essentials. She set it up last year after encountering a plea on social media from a local couple who were in dire straits after he was laid off due to injury and she had been put on Universal Credit. A call for help was put out and I received “loads of donations of food,” Melinda told the BBC, adding that she believes the cost of feeding pets is leading increasing numbers of owners to abandon them.
The idea is also catching on in Spain, especially since the Covid crisis. The first pet food banks opened in Catalonia several years ago and have since spread throughout the country.
The only requirements to use these centres are for the pet owners to be able to prove they are struggling financially and that the animal is theirs.
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