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A great controversy lingers on about what is truly safe and healthy for our fellow feline friends. Many studies and articles including the one below-show that felines living on the streets have an exponential increase in risk of death prematurely and ability to spread diseases to humans opposed to indoor cats.

Outdoor Access for Cats: An Assessment of Risks and Benefits

Cats are immensely capable of learning to live HAPPILY indoors with just a few changes-please see expert advice on ways to do that just below. 

Play Time!: Play play play! Play with your cat-the way they like to. Hunt, Capture, and kill are the cats inner most 

Play With Your Cat

Catio: This is a real game changer. A catio is basically a space that you can make for cats (which of course you can share with them) by enclosing your existing patio or creating an enclosure. There, you can offer great vertical spaces, wooden objects that they can scratch on, different grasses including catnip that you can plant and they can enjoy—even hunting that can happen when critters make their way inside.

Harness Training: Enjoying the great outdoors via a leash isn’t just a“dog” thing. If your cat demonstrates that he really, really wants to get outside(not just because you think he should get out there), he can be trained to a harness and leash, and you can spend quality time every day cruising around the neighborhood with your cat.

Window Boxes: Sometimes you can’t even take them outside because of your schedule or your apartment lifestyle, or you determine that they didn’t want to go out badly enough to train to a harness. Or perhaps once they were trained, the outdoors just wasn’t for them. There are kits that fit in your window just like an air conditioner that allow your cats to enjoy the view. Getting in the window box can become a wonderful hangout spot with a front row seat to Cat TV.

Fencing in Backyard: There are more and more companies offering different versions of the existing, fairly foolproof method of fencing in your backyard. You can attach toppers to your existing fences or purchase a free-standing system. Either way, your cats won’t get out, and just as important, nobody else can get in.

Catification: art of creating an enriched home environment that is acceptable to both you and your cat. See how below.

Catifying Your Home For Harmony

Let’s keep our fellow feline and human friend safe in our communities!

By signing this petition-we will submit a letter to Mountain House Board of Directors to create an ordinance against allowing felines outdoors without a harness, name tag, and leash in Mountain House, CA.