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The vast majority of shelter cat housing consists of single compartment cages or condos with a floor space of only about 4 square feet. This housing was developed before current research gave us an understanding of the basic needs of confined cats. At best, single cages are inefficient to clean and insufficiently large to permit separation of food and water from the litter box. Handling during cleaning is stressful and spreads disease. Litter can get kicked into food and cats fail to eat. At worst, the stress of this close confinement leads to illness and even euthanasia or death for shelter cats. From the Association of Shelter Veterinarian’s Guidelines for Standards of Care: “Poor cat housing is one of the greatest shortcomings observed in shelters and has a substantially negative impact on both health and well-being.” 

THE PROBLEM

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