ticks & fleas - cats get Lyme disease too, and other types of parasites transmitted by those insects toxoplasmosis - a cat just has to step on ground another cat has pooped on, and parasites enter through their feet giardia - another nasty parasite for cats that's just hanging around in the ground feline leukemia - gets it from contact with other cats feline AIDS - same deal feline peritonitis - cat gets in a scrap with another cat, gets scratched on the belly, dies slowly and painfully from GI infection
Gau will never be an outdoor cat; he'll be much healthier living indoors.
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ticks & fleas - cats get Lyme disease too, and other types of parasites transmitted by those insects
toxoplasmosis - a cat just has to step on ground another cat has pooped on, and parasites enter through their feet
giardia - another nasty parasite for cats that's just hanging around in the ground
feline leukemia - gets it from contact with other cats
feline AIDS - same deal
feline peritonitis - cat gets in a scrap with another cat, gets scratched on the belly, dies slowly and painfully from GI infection
Gau will never be an outdoor cat; he'll be much healthier living indoors.