Viruses, Infections, and Diseases - Oh MY!
What are internal parasites?
When a community cat is comfortable around their caretaker.
What is feeder friendly?
This type of cat is 99% female and has a tricolor coat of black, white, and orange.
What is a calico?
This is created and posted, often online, to catch the right adopter's eye and try to find a purrfect match.
What is a profile?
This popular return reason includes aggression, inappropriate urination, destructive actions, and separation anxiety.
What are behavioral issues?
A contagious fungal infection affecting skin, hair, and nails, causing circular patches of hair loss, redness, scaling, and brittle fur, often on the head, ears, or legs.
What is ringworm?
Those who feed free roaming cats and do not uphold the responsibility of Spay/Neuter.
What is a feeder breeder?
This domestic cat has a distinctive coat pattern featuring an "M" marking on its forehead, stripes, swirls, or spots on its body, legs, and tail.
What is a tabby?
A visit to a potential owner's home to ensure it's safe, suitable, and free from hazards for a specific pet.
This is an immune system reaction to harmless proteins in an animal's dander, saliva, and urine, causing symptoms like sneezing, runny nose, itchy eyes, coughing.
What are allergies?
A slow-acting virus that weakens a cat's immune system, but is NOT a death sentence. Cats can still live long, healthy lives.
What is FIV (Feline Immunodeficiency Virus)?
Staging unset traps for a period of days to familiarize the cats with eating out of the equipment.
What is trap training?
The domestic cat breed known for its distinctive short, "bobbed" tail, which is the result of a natural genetic mutation.
What is an American Bobtail?
When a rescue organization denies an application to adopt a pet.
What is rejection?
This occurs when an owner changes place of residence to a new home where current pet is not welcome.
When feline coronavirus (FCoV) mutates into its final aggressive stage.
What is FIP (Feline Infectious Peritonitis)?
Some feral cats in recovery are restless and compulsive with breaking up the newspaper creating a nest.
What are shredders?
A unique, hairless cat breed known for its wrinkled skin, large ears, and affectionate, energetic personality, originating from a natural genetic mutation in Canada in the 1960s.
What is a Sphynx?
This scheduled interaction with the animal is to see if you bond; introducing existing pets is often encouraged.
What is a meet and greet?
This unfortunate excuse is when adopters expect a perfect pet or underestimate the time/effort needed.
What are mismatched expectation?
Cats typically become infected with this virus by eating infected prey/ Symptoms include fevers, lethargy, seizures, and lack of coordination.
What is Toxoplasmosis?
Male cats can experience one or both testicles not descending due to genetics.
What is cryptorchid?
This feline coloration is known for shiny coats and gold eyes, often linked to folklore, mythology, and superstition.
What is black?
This is when the staff reviews the application, contacts references, and potentially conduct background checks.
What is an adopter screening?
This infuriating is excuse occurs when a new furless addition to the family takes the place of the current pet.
What is a new baby?