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Feral Colonies & Community Cats terms
Colonies and community cats: managed colonies, caretakers, barn-cat programmes, working cats placement, feeding bans and local rules.
Colony caretakerA person who feeds and watches over an outdoor cat colony, and usually arranges neutering, vaccination and veterinary help for its cats.Community catAn umbrella term for any cat living outdoors that is not confined, whether friendly or feral, owned or unowned.Ear-tippingThe removal of the tip of one ear under anaesthesia, done at neutering, to show at a glance that a free-roaming cat has been sterilised.Feral catA cat that has not been socialised to people and lives outdoors, avoiding contact and usually not suited to life as a house pet.Trap-neuter-returnA programme in which free-roaming cats are humanely trapped, neutered, vaccinated, ear-tipped and then returned to where they were found.