Keep Cats Indoors!

• Cars kill millions of cats each year.
• Outdoor cats are exposed to serious, and often fatal, infectious diseases such as feline leukemia and rabies.
• Parasites such as fleas, ticks and intestinal worms pose a health threat to your cat. Sorne of these can be transmitted to humans.
• Outdoors, cats can be chased by dogs or other cats, and killed, injured or lost.
• Cats are oflten shot at, poisoned, trapped or tortured by neighbors who are annoyed by cats using their gardens as a litter box or hunting grounds.
• Coyotes, great-homed owls and otherwild animals are known to regularly kill and eat house cats.
• Cats that spend time outdoors require more medical treatment and their life span is much shorter than cats who live indoors.