Fall 1999 Table of Contents

Learn how to keep those cats indoors

If you’ve heard our past advice about keeping cats indoors to protect wild birds, but you just don’t know how to make the transition with your outdoor cat, there’s new help available.

The American Bird Conservancy (ABC) has a new program called "Cats Indoors! The Campaign for Safer Birds and Cats." They provide free information on how to make your outdoor cat happy indoors, what to do about your neighbors’ cats in your yard, why cats themselves are safer indoors, why people think cats need to go outside (and the fallacy of that thinking!), and ways to educate your community about this problem.

The campaign also provides information about cat products that will help you either deal with your own cat or your neighbors’ cats.

From a 1997 survey conducted for ABC, only 35% of cat owners keep their cats indoors all the time and 64% still think that putting bells on cats prevents them from killing birds and other wildlife.

You can get all the details from ABC at 1250 24th St., N.W., Suite 400, Washington, D.C. 20037, phone 202-778-9666 or on their website.

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