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Dangers to Stray Cats Include:
Hit by cars
Injured in the engine bay of cars, when seeking warmth
Mauled (bites, limbs ripped off, etc.) or eaten by predators - hawks, owls, snakes, raccoons, dogs, foxes, coyotes
Freezing to death
Heat stroke
Poisoned
Shot
Acid attack
Blindness from infected, ruptured eyeballs
Sepsis from abscessed injuries
Respiratory infections, w/pus gluing eyes shut and causing blindness and inability to find food or shelter or escape predators
Rectal prolapse of 6" out the rear end
Calicivirus infection, causing ulcerated sores in the mouth and throat and the inability to eat, causing slow starvation
Diseases - feline panleukopenia, herpes, leukemia, feline AIDS, FIP (feline infectious peritonitis)
Pyometra - painful, dangerous uterine infection that can cause the terribly swollen uterus to be forced out the back end of the cat
Giant tumors - cancerous or benign
Worms (round or tape) and parasites (giardia, listeria, etc.), causing pain and deadly diarrhea
Fleas or ringworm - causing itching scratching, infection, loss of blood
Maggots eating the intestines of a kitten, from the inside
Birthing difficulties -mama cat bleeding, dead kittens stuck halfway out
Multiple litters of kittens born to a mother w/a birth defect that causes her to have no nipples, causing the kittens to slowly starve to death
Cat leg caught in a fox trap, killing the leg and almost killing the cat
So many cats and so much suffering. Most of them are from accidental pregnancies - indoors or out - and this vulnerable population never should have happened. There should be birth control preventing all of this. The flow of kittens should not be continuing, even as you read this, for the lack of human effort.