Feral Cats: Pest Notes for Home and Garden

Publication Number: 74178

Length: 7 pp.

Language: English

Author: UC IPM

Inventory Type: PDF File

Feral cats are also known as unsocialized cats, wild cats, community cats, stray cats, and free-roaming cats. Feral cats are unowned and generally do not like to be handled by people.

Feral Cats: Pest Notes for Home and Garden

Not all free-roaming cats are feral. House cats—often referred to as owned or pet cats—can be indoor or outdoor and can also be considered free-roaming, but they are not feral cats. Feral cats result from unregulated or unmanaged breeding, pet abandonment, limited or no human contact, and access to abundant food resources (from wild prey items as well as supplemental diets provided by humans). Often feral cats are sustained in feral cat colonies which can be a mix of feral cats and free-roaming cats. Learn how to identify feral cats, the risks they pose, and how to manage them.

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