This use has been outlawed in the United States since 2000 and in the European Union since 2007. Data on the reproductive capacity of more than 2,300 free-ranging queens were collected during a study between May 1998 and October 2000. They had one to six kittens per litter, with an average of three kittens.
For some reason, he’d chosen a movie with subtitles, and she kept closing her eyes, so she had no idea what was going on. After a short while, Robert got up and hurried to the bathroom in a bow-legged waddle, clutching the condom to keep it from falling off. Margot lay on the bed and stared at the ceiling, noticing for the first time that there were stickers on it, those little stars and moons that were supposed to glow in the dark. During the movie, he didn’t hold her hand or put his arm around her, so by the time they were back in the parking lot she was pretty sure that he had changed his mind about liking her. She was wearing leggings and a sweatshirt, and that might have been the problem. When she got into the car, he’d said, “Glad to see you dressed up for me,” which she’d assumed was a joke, but maybe she actually had offended him by not seeming to take the date seriously enough, or something.
One common approach to reducing the feral cat population is termed “trap-neuter-return”, where the cats are trapped, neutered, immunized against diseases such as rabies and the feline panleukopenia and leukemia viruses, and then released. Before releasing them back into their feral colonies, the attending veterinarian often nips the tip off one ear to mark it as neutered and inoculated, since these cats may be trapped again. Volunteers continue to feed and give care to these cats throughout their lives. Given this support, their lifespans are increased, and behavior and nuisance problems caused by competition for food are reduced. The social behavior of the domestic cat ranges from widely dispersed individuals to feral cat colonies that gather around a food source, based on groups of co-operating females. Within such groups, one cat is usually dominant over the others.
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They also retain the rough tongue that can help them clean every last morsel from an animal bone . Their diets vary with the whims of humans, however, and can be supplemented by the cat’s own hunting successes. Coronavirus (COVID-19) Response Alley Cat Allies is here for you and cats as the COVID-19 outbreak causes major upheavals in our lives. We’re making it possible to keep food banks for animals stocked.
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While most cats have alert and upright ears, the natural ears of this breed will fold just below the tip, causing the tip of the ear to fold downward. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word ‘cat.’ Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Today, the government is trying hard to eliminate cats from the landscape and is even involved in the invention of new cat poisons and gory things, which are upsetting to cat lovers. The five-year-old female cat had been collared by a local researcher before and is believed to have some neurological problems.
The English puss, extended as pussy and pussycat, is attested from the 16th century and may have been introduced from Dutch poes or from Low German puuskatte, related to Swedish kattepus, or Norwegian pus, pusekatt. Similar forms exist in Lithuanian puižė and Irish puisín or puiscín. The etymology of this word is unknown, but it may have simply arisen from a sound used to attract a cat.