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Urban landscape and infection risk in free-roaming cats. [PDF]

open access: yesZoonoses Public Health, 2022
Despite public concern on the role of free‐roaming cats as reservoirs of zoonotic agents, little is known about the influence of urban and peri‐urban landscapes on the exposure risk.
Candela MG   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Occurrence of antibodies anti-Toxoplasma gondii among sheltered and free-roaming cats within a university campus

open access: yesSemina: Ciências Agrárias, 2021
The present study aimed to assess anti-T. gondii antibodies in sheltered and free-roaming cats within a university campus that has an overlapping population of humans and livestock. A total of 51 cats were tested for anti-T.
Louise Bach Kmetiuk   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Solutions-Based Approach to Urban Cat Management—Case Studies of a One Welfare Approach to Urban Cat Management

open access: yesAnimals, 2023
Urban free-roaming cats create concern about their impacts on wildlife and human health, leading to the use of trap–adopt–kill methods to manage these populations.
Caitlin Crawford   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Veterinarians in Managing Community Cats: A Contextualized, Comprehensive Approach for Biodiversity, Public Health, and Animal Welfare

open access: yesAnimals, 2023
Homeless cats are a major problem in Europe, with hundreds of thousands abandoned every year. While many die, others can adapt to a lifestyle of roaming freely and establish community cat populations that tend to cluster together in groups.
Octavio P. Luzardo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of infection and exposure in free-roaming cat populations in northern California and southern Texas

open access: yesJournal of Feline Medicine and Surgery, 2023
Objectives Leptospirosis is a re-emergent zoonotic bacterial disease associated with renal and hepatic injury. In free-roaming cats in some regions, a high prevalence of Leptospira antibodies has been identified, and pathogenic leptospires have been ...
Jamie F Sebastian   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimation of the dietary nutrient profile of free-roaming feral cats: possible implications for nutrition of domestic cats [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Cats are strict carnivores and in the wild rely on a diet solely based on animal tissues to meet their specific and unique nutritional requirements. Although the feeding ecology of cats in the wild has been well documented in the literature, there is no ...
Dep Gezondheidszorg Landbouwhuisdieren   +8 more
core   +2 more sources

Free Roaming Cats in Public Spaces

open access: yes, 2021
Do sustainable development goals accept free-roaming cats in public places? We provide insights and solutions regarding how cities worldwide confront this question.
Abeer Elshater (11075925)   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Serosurvey of Rickettsia spp. in cats from a Brazilian spotted fever-endemic area

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária, 2019
Rickettsia spp. bacteria are responsible for tick-borne diseases worldwide, mostly maintained by rickettsial amplifiers capybaras in Brazilian endemic areas.
Juliana Cristina Rebonato Mendes   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementing Nonlethal Solutions for Free-Roaming Cat Management in a County in the Southeastern United States

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2019
From 2006 to 2017, stray or free-roaming cats ranged from 35 to 54% of all animals going into the public shelter in Hillsborough County, Florida. Shelter overcrowding of cats, including free-roaming, feral, or community cats, is a major problem in parts ...
Francis Hamilton
doaj   +1 more source

Putting the cat before the wildlife: Exploring cat owners' beliefs about cat containment as predictors of owner behavior

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, 2021
Free‐roaming domestic cats pose risks to wildlife, domestic animals, humans, and importantly, the cats themselves. Behavior change campaigns that seek to minimize these risks by increasing cat containment require an understanding of the factors that ...
Lily M. vanEeden   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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