Chris Lepczyk

And so you can go to pretty remote places on the planet and find that a cat can survive.

You know, they just need animal protein.

They don't have to.

They can go a long time without water.

They don't need people around.

you may not have a large population of cats, but they can certainly persist a lot longer than I think most of people think ordinarily they would.

Yeah, there's pretty large risks.

I mean, I think as we noted in the paper that just came out, you know, cats are moving across roads three, four, five times a day.

And, you know, those are cats that we've tracked and watched.

But I think we could back that up with a lot of other studies.

Now, there was a really good paper that came out last month looking at just roadkill around the world.

And the amount of animals, not just cats that are hit by cars regularly is very high.

So road mortality is, you know, animals don't perceive vehicles the way humans do.

And it's a pretty, I mean, it's something we've known about for a long time, but I think we didn't really have this understanding until a few of the studies, how many cats are crossing roads on a regular basis.

But yeah, that's a great source of mortality.

anthropomorphize the aspects that we think are human aspects when that's not maybe at all what an animal is doing.

The view of welfare and what is great for an animal differs a lot around the world, but I would say that animals like cats can live wonderful lives indoors.

And a lot of it's how engaged you as the owner

wants to be with that animal.

And so, you know, you can enrich your home environment, putting up things like cat trees, playing with toys with them, providing opportunities to interact with you and having places to hide.