We have very anti-outside cat governments and SPCA here. My town has no ordinance about outside cats but they are trapped by Animal Control and taken to the SPCA, where they are almost automatically euthanized.
For this reason and because we live on a busy street, we are thinking of constructing an outside enclosure with wire top and sides. We would outfit it with houses, climbing perches, an artificial cat tree or maybe a real tree. We have enough room to house 4-5 cats and would work with the rescue to save some of the trapped ferals from euthanisia.
I know ferals are often relocated and kept in crates until they become accustomed to their new surroundings. I don't think we'd have to crate them - just let them go into the enclosure. I plan a double gate system, so they couldn't escape. We'd feed them, provide a sandbox and the other amenities and of course, vet them one a year.
Opinions? Anyone ever do anything like this?
For this reason and because we live on a busy street, we are thinking of constructing an outside enclosure with wire top and sides. We would outfit it with houses, climbing perches, an artificial cat tree or maybe a real tree. We have enough room to house 4-5 cats and would work with the rescue to save some of the trapped ferals from euthanisia.
I know ferals are often relocated and kept in crates until they become accustomed to their new surroundings. I don't think we'd have to crate them - just let them go into the enclosure. I plan a double gate system, so they couldn't escape. We'd feed them, provide a sandbox and the other amenities and of course, vet them one a year.
Opinions? Anyone ever do anything like this?