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Putting those cats to work: Houston SPCA announces program to help kitties who love the great outdoors Published:  Tags:  A working cat image provided by the Houston SPCA. (Houston SPCA) HOUSTON – The Houston SPCA announced Thursday that it is opening a new avenue for cat adoptions with its program designed for cats that are best suited in an outdoor environment. The Working Cat program aims to help felines that will thrive on a property with a structure such as a barn, manufacturing plant or warehouse. The Houston SPCA said cat selected for the program will be spayed or neutered, microch...

To many animal welfare advocates, these cats are vulnerable — they live a scant few years, falling victim to wild predators, speeding cars, or rat poison they ingest. But to others, outdoor cats are opportunistic predators that hunt not only birds — an estimated 1.3 billion to 4 billion — but also lizards and small rodents. Everyone agrees that cats shouldn’t be roaming outdoors. The question is how to reduce that population in a humane way. As most animal welfare experts recommend, Los Angeles wants to embrace the practice of trap-neuter-return (known as TNR). When the ca...