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Be responsible for your feline friends too:
- Keep your cats indoors
- Vaccinate your cats
Keep your cats indoors:
Cats should be kept indoors if at all possible. If this is
not possible, they should not be allowed to roam freely when out of
doors. The reasons are as follows:
- Cats kill millions of song birds a year as well as preying upon
small ground dwelling wildlife. It is important that you keep
your cats under control, especially during the spring nesting season.
Leash them or put a bell on them.
- Cats can become part
of the food chain when allowed to roam. They are easy prey for mountain
lions, bobcats, coyotes, foxes, owls and hawks.
- Cats that
are not kept indoors or kept under control when outdoors can pick up
fleas from wild animals. These fleas could infect the cat with bubonic
plague. Iif the cat comes into human contact, the fleas
or the cat could infect the person with the plague.
- Cats can hunt and kill rodents which are carrying Hantavirus and bring it back
to your home. If a human comes into contact with the infected rodent, they could then become infected with Hantavirus.
Vaccinate your cats:
- Cats can spread distemper and that can have a devastating result on a wildlife population.
- A cat that does not have its vaccinations up to date could become infected by wildlife.
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