Cats and Coffee: Our Community Cats
At our last "Cats & Coffee" virtual meeting, we spoke about community cats and resources available to help care for them. Community cats are defined as outdoor, unowned, and free roaming cats. The cats could be adult, kittens, feral, friendly, healthy, sick, altered and/or unaltered. These cats are the only cats that do not have owners, so it is important to know how to distinguish a community cat versus an indoor/outdoor cat.
We also talked about the difference between stray and feral cats. Feral cats will not approach and will likely seek hiding places to avoid people. These cats will not meow, beg, or purr.
Stray cats on the other hand, may approach people, houses, porches, or cars. They may also be vocal, meow, or “answer” your voice.
To learn more about cat colonies, community cats, and to help you distinguish the difference between feral and stray cats, information and resources are provided to the public through many animal rescued groups:
Alley Cats Allies provides a free downloadable visual chart booklet in their website!
Information on cat rescue groups and TNR programs for community cats:
Nothin’ but Love Cat and Kitten Rescue
Community Cat Coalition of Clark County
Books to read:
- Call of the Cats: What I learned about LIFE and LOVE from a FERAL COLONY by Andrew Bloomfield
- Trooper: The Bobcat Who Came in from the Wild by Forrest Bryant Johnson
- If Cats Disappeared from the World by Genki Kawamura
- Strays: a lost cat, a homeless man, and their journey across America by Britt Collins
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
- A street cat named Bob: And how he saved my life by James Bowen
- Second-Chance Cats by Callie Smith Grant
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