![]() We hope this information can be used to encourage the public to keep cats indoors more often (with consideration for their indoor quality of life) or supervise them while outdoors. Male cats were more likely to engage in risk behaviours than female cats, and older cats engaged in fewer risk behaviours than younger individuals. The most common risk behaviours exhibited by suburban free-roaming cats included crossing roads (45 per cent of our sample), encountering strange cats (25 per cent), eating and drinking substances away from home (25 per cent), exploring storm drain systems (20 per cent), and entering crawlspaces of houses (20 per cent). Research objectives included documenting the type and regularity of risk behaviours exhibited by free-roaming cats and identifying characteristics of pet cats (eg, age, sex, roaming habitat) which predict risky behaviour in the outdoors. We investigated the activities of free-roaming cats in suburban Athens-Clarke County, Georgia, during all four seasons. Kitt圜ams are a type of Crittercam, designed by National Geographic to allow recording of a cat-eye view without disrupting behaviour. ![]() This research quantitatively examined the outdoor activities of 55 owned cats by monitoring pets outfitted with 'Kitt圜am' video cameras. Free-roaming cats may experience numerous hazardous encounters in the outdoor environment, including: vehicular accidents, aggression from other animals and exposure to infectious disease.
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