Lautenschlager refers to Joy as a community cat, which is a term often used to describe outdoor, unowned, free-roaming cats.

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Stray cats are all over the nation, roaming people's backyards and sometimes redistributing themselves to a new home. Experts told USA TODAY caring for community cats can improve the population's ...

They dart across backyards. Slip under fences. Appear in alleys and vanish before you blink. Feral cats are everywhere. Some neighbors feed them, others complain. But either way the sheer numbers are ...

Friendly Stray Cat Plays Hard to Get Until She Hears the Word 'Hungry' originally appeared on PetHelpful. Earning the trust of a rescue pet is difficult enough, but enticing a stray animal to come ...

MILPITAS, Calif. -- A unique program is saving the lives of feral shelter cats that are not good candidates for adoption. Instead of being euthanized, they're gently coaxed to trust humans and to ...

An injured stray cat wandered into a family's property at feeding time, but was too shy to ask for food. So, he kept showing up again and again, until he finally worked up the courage to befriend them ...

It’s true that cats find the most unusual ways to enter our lives. One particularly unique case is that of Marmy—short for Orange Marmalade—an orange cat who simply started appearing near this ...