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How to Feed Stray Cats
This is a guide to feeding strays, not a home-care plan — the aim is to meet a stray's minimum needs within your budget. The basics are simple: a labeled mainstream kibble, clean water, and never table scraps.
Parasites on Stray Cats: What to Do
Strays, with weaker immunity, often carry both internal parasites (roundworms, coccidia, hookworms, toxoplasma) and external ones (fleas). Signs include diarrhea and fever; treat with combing, a flea shampoo, and broad-spectrum dewormers, then keep the coat dry and watch for post-treatment upset.
Why Do Cats Like Living as Strays Outdoors?
A cat may prefer the stray life for many reasons — a love of freedom, the hunt, looking for companions or family, loneliness, or being in heat. A cat with stray experience adapts better outside; though it must scavenge and even go hungry, it's free with companions. In short, a cat leaving for the streets isn't necessarily treated badly — it may just prefer that life.
Are Cats Really Impossible to Bond With?
An Oregon study found over half of cats chose their owner over food or toys, and a cat that seems aloof still shows love through kneading, head-butts, belly displays, and following you everywhere. Cats that were stray before three months may stay wary, but 'untamable' is a myth — often it's the person who fails to connect.
How to Prevent Toxoplasmosis in Cats
Toxoplasmosis spreads mainly through cat faeces and infected raw meat, showing as chronic weight loss and anaemia or acute fever above 40°C with breathing trouble — and it can cause miscarriage in pregnant queens. Keep cats indoors, deworm regularly with a product that targets the parasite, cook any meat you feed, and clear litter with gloves to stay safe.
What Spay/Neuter Surgery Is — and Why Cats Should Be Neutered
Spay/neuter is a routine surgery that removes a cat's reproductive organs to prevent breeding and curb hormone-driven behavior. Males get a quick scrotal incision; females need a flank or abdominal incision to remove the uterus and ovaries. The benefits include fewer stray cats, lower reproductive-disease risk, and far less spraying, yowling, and fighting.
Symptoms of Rabies in Cats
It is not only dogs that get rabies - cats can be infected too. Here are the symptoms of rabies in cats and how to tell.
Are College Students Unsuitable to Keep Cats?
Having a cat at college is fun, but I don't advise students to keep cats in dorms, or that students are unsuitable - most schools ban pets.
External Parasites of Dogs and Cats
Summer is here and your pet is clingier - but watch external parasites during play. What external parasites affect dogs and cats?
Common Infectious Diseases in Cats
This issue summarizes 8 common feline infectious diseases; here is a brief introduction.