CAT CARE

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This page is still under construction and we plan on adding many, many, many more links on cat care! It will be a HUGE page and we hope it will help answer questions you might have about how to care for cats/kittens! If there are specific issues you would like us to address, please email Megan homewardbounddogrescue@yahoo.com. If you have any favorite sites you feel other people would find useful, please email me.

The links below (and anywhere else in the site) help provide information that we hope will be useful to pet owners or potential owners. Please understand that the information and advice provided in these sites are, to the best of our knowledge, accurate and given in good faith. However, we have no way of knowing if everything is indeed factual and encourage you to consult an animal behaviorist or veterinary rather than relying solely on the information provided in the links below. The decision to use, or not to use, any information is the sole responsibility of the reader. Homeward Bound makes no warranties or guarantees and expressly disclaims all liability.

Every animal adopted from Homeward Bound must and shall reside indoors, in the adopter's home, and live as a family member and companion only. This does not mean that the dog can be kenneled outdoors and come in at night or that a cat can roam around outdoors - to us, that does not qualify as living indoors. Unless the director of Homeward Bound gives written consent, we will NOT place one of our dogs in a home that is planning on keeping their dog outside more than 25% of the time. The dog will not be kept outdoors during the adopter's working hours, or at any other time left alone outdoors while the adopter is not at home. Being a house-dog means just that - it does not mean garages, dog houses (heated or otherwise), barns, kennels, outbuildings, etc. An outside shelter such as a doghouse is not acceptable as residence but can be used only when needed in extreme heat, cold, or rain when the dog is let out into the yard for short periods of time and only when the adopter is at home. Dogs may not sleep outside. We will not adopt out a dog/cat to families/people that keep other dogs/cats outdoors as well, even if they promise to keep a Homeward Bound animal indoors

General Cat Information
http://www.aspca.org/site/PageServer?
pagename=pets_catcar
http://www.paws.org/cas/resources/fact_
sheets_cats/
http://www.perfectpaws.com/cpv.html
http://www.catsinternational.org/articles
/index.html
http://www.hssv.org/behavior_cats.html