Benefits of Cat Containment

There are many benefits of keeping your cat safe at home, regardless of how you decide to do it.

Benefits for you

• Reduce your stress, and effort.  No more searching for a cat that has gone missing, or explaining to the kids why their loved pet isn't there.  
• Save Money. Reduce your vet bills from injury and illness, or worse replacing your cat when it is killed or lost.

Benefits for your cat

Better health through:  

• Reduced fighting.  Every fight with a neighbourhood cat brings the risk of injury including life-threatening infection such as feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), Feline Leukemia Virus Infection (FeLV). Even relatively minor bites and scratches will often abscess.

• safe from vehicles, and dogs

• not straying, getting lost (locked in an unmonitored site – neighbour's shed, empty office building or warehouse, or vehicle).

• Not being targeted by cat haters and would-be 'pest controllers' 

• Less at risk from poisoning. Not just some awful person poisoning your cat on purpose, but accidental poisoning because they are not expecting your cat to be a visitor. Do you know what poisons your neighbours are using, and how? Not just the obvious rodent poisons, but even anti-freeze (which is both sweet and attractive to cats and deadly poisonous).

• Less stressed by unwelcome visitors. You may think it's nice that your cat visits the neighbourhood, but every other cat is visiting your home too.  For many cats this is extremely stressful, and can be the cause of inappropriate peeing or spraying, and other behaviours. 

Social Benefits

• Responsible ownership - any pet is your responsibility 24 hours a day 
• Good neighbour - You wouldn't appreciate your neighbours dog (or children) using your yard as a toilet, so why is it ok for your cat(s)?
• Protect your local environment – birds, and native wildlife