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Metro Vancouver's cat sanctuary RAPS has a "barn cat" program that's similar to this. http://www.rapsbc.com/cat-sanctuary/ http://www.rapsbc.com/cat-sanctuary/

Metro Vancouver's cat sanctuary RAPS has a "barn cat" program that's similar to this. http://www.rapsbc.com/cat-sanctuary/ http://www.rapsbc.com/cat-sanctuary/ RAPS located in the suburb of Richmond, which is an odd urban, farming, industrial fusion of a municipality, and a perfect mix sort of environment for feral cat colonies to go unnoticed. They trap lots of feral cats, and over time some times some of these feral cats chill out enough that they're only semi-feral and can be a good fit for living on farms and killing rats. They also have all sorts of other unadoptable cats that would be killed at any normal shelter. Some times this is due to high aggression, problem urination, special needs or some disease such as FIV (HIV but for cats).

bayesian_horse 8y ago
I don't think FIV positive cats should be let outside or into possible contact with other cats.
- Tiktaalik 8y ago
  Yeah at RAPs the FIV+ cats have their own little closed off zone. RAPS will potentially let people adopt them if they promise that they'll be inside cats. FIV+ cats can live ok with other cats so long as they don't fight. The disease is spread from cats exchanging blood through fights, so from my understanding it's mostly a feral male cat disease. (I adopted a FIV+ cat from RAPS so that's why I'm a bit familiar with the RAPS setup)
  - scurvy 8y ago
    Adopted a very loving FIV+ cat that lived way longer than the shelter said he would. Adopting him was one of the best decisions I ever made. He never went outside, but he never showed one hint at ever wanting to go out. He went from feral cat to comfy spoiled house cat.
    - tejtm 8y ago
      I picked up a stray (ok, so she jumped in the car) took her to the vet for the eye crusties found out she was unadoptable due to FIV+ they said they could put her down, or I could keep her indoors and she would just have a shorter than average life, six or seven years if she was lucky... that was 14 years ago and and is still doing fine. Has no interest in going outside, ceilings are too tall out there for her, suspect that is why she jumped in the car in the first place

bayesian_horse 8y ago

I don't think FIV positive cats should be let outside or into possible contact with other cats.

Tiktaalik 8y ago
Yeah at RAPs the FIV+ cats have their own little closed off zone. RAPS will potentially let people adopt them if they promise that they'll be inside cats. FIV+ cats can live ok with other cats so long as they don't fight. The disease is spread from cats exchanging blood through fights, so from my understanding it's mostly a feral male cat disease. (I adopted a FIV+ cat from RAPS so that's why I'm a bit familiar with the RAPS setup)
- scurvy 8y ago
  Adopted a very loving FIV+ cat that lived way longer than the shelter said he would. Adopting him was one of the best decisions I ever made. He never went outside, but he never showed one hint at ever wanting to go out. He went from feral cat to comfy spoiled house cat.
  - tejtm 8y ago
    I picked up a stray (ok, so she jumped in the car) took her to the vet for the eye crusties found out she was unadoptable due to FIV+ they said they could put her down, or I could keep her indoors and she would just have a shorter than average life, six or seven years if she was lucky... that was 14 years ago and and is still doing fine. Has no interest in going outside, ceilings are too tall out there for her, suspect that is why she jumped in the car in the first place