Many people think that cats are like people, and they can be free-range because they need freedom. In fact, doing so will bring some hidden safety hazards to cats and pose a great threat to the growth and development of cats. Can pets be free-range? What problems will free-range bring to cats?

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I. The influence of free-range cats

Cats can't control their outdoor behaviors when they are free-range, they shuttle between the woods and grass, When you are hungry, you will pick up unhealthy food on the roadside or in the garbage heap, causing your body to be covered with parasites such as fleas, lice, and mites; or infected with cat plague (details), cat AIDS, peritonitis and other infectious diseases; or eating rotten and poisonous It can cause gastroenteritis, tapeworms, roundworms and other parasitic diseases; seriously endanger the life and health of cats and owners.

Free-range rearing is absolutely unhealthy for cats and increases the number of stray cats in society. When a free-range cat is in heat, it will not control the mating on its own. Cats will choose to mate and breed with stray cats outdoors. It is difficult for newly born kittens to escape the fate of stray cats. Slowly, the number of stray cats in society will increase several times, putting pressure on the social and ecological balance. .

In addition, cats are easy to get lost, especially in high-rise buildings in cities, cats can easily get lost in the prosperity of the city and can no longer find their way home. At the same time, free-range cats will be arrested, slaughtered and eaten by unscrupulous cat dealers, and cats are prone to car accidents and lose their lives when they walk through the streets full of traffic.

Second, the hazards of free-range cats

1. Free-range cats will bring back parasites and germs: cats that are active outdoors can easily get out of the grass. , The sand brought back fleas, lice and other external parasites, these parasites carry tapeworms, roundworms and other parasites in their bodies, which can be transmitted to humans through cats. Free-range cats will inevitably catch mice, birds and other small animals, and will also bring back germs.

2. Cats are easy to spread diseases if they are free-range: cats are free-range and will come into contact with nearby stray cats. It is easy to be infected with malignant infectious diseases such as cat plague, cat AIDS, peritonitis, etc. during the high incidence of infectious diseases. Not only does it cost money and manpower to treat diseases, but it may even cost the cat's life. In addition, free-range cats can also cause gastrointestinal diseases such as vomiting and diarrhea if they eat unclean things outside.

3. The disorderly breeding of cats in free-range breeding will lead to an increase in the number of stray cats: Families that keep cats in free-range generally do not have the awareness of scientifically raising cats, and will not sterilize cats. They will mate with stray cats outside. If the kittens produced are not adopted, they will also become stray cats, which will slowly cause the number of stray cats to increase exponentially, putting pressure on the ecological balance.

4. Cats are prone to car accidents when they are free-range: there are many vehicles outside, especially at night, when drivers drive faster. The light ones are broken into broken bones, but most cats will be crushed by the flesh and blood.

5. Cats are easy to get lost in free-range breeding: Now the buildings in the community are all built in the same way, especially the well-decorated houses, even the security doors look the same, and there are more and more high-rise buildings. Once cats are free-range, it is easy to get lost in this steel jungle and find their way home.

6. Cats that are kept free will also be taken away: Now cat dealers are becoming more and more rampant, especially in recent years, the cat meat market has become very popular. There are a group of cat dealers in the community to catch stray cats and steal For free-range cats, once they catch them, they will sell the cats to street vendors selling mutton skewers, and sell them to consumers with cat meat pretending to be mutton; or sell the cats to places where cat meat is eaten, such as Guangdong. This kind of thing happens often now, and volunteers who rescue stray cats have rescued stray cats that are going to be sent to restaurants several times.

3. Precautions for free-range cats

Take a look at stray cats, and parents should have a general understanding of the problems that free-range cats will encounter . Even if the parents can regularly brush and bathe the cat, and call it home to rest at night, the risk of health and life-threatening to cats that live outside is much greater than that of domestic pet cats.

For example, cats are mixed with stray cats all day long, and they often go in and out of garbage heaps, woods and grasses, which will make cats more susceptible to parasites such as fleas and lice. Moreover, the chance of contracting infectious diseases is higher, such as cat fever, flu, etc. At the same time, the unrestricted activities of cats outdoors will also cause them to encounter many dangers. As the saying goes, curiosity killed the cat, in addition to the cat's curiosity that may bring its life-threatening, rolling wheels, food, medicine in the garbage heap, etc., these are potential threats to the cat's life.

In order to make the cat's life more free, the owners keep the cat free, but they don't know that this will only harm the cat. In order to prevent the cat from bringing the parasitic disease infected outside home.