We live in a rural area. Two of the three cats spend time outdoors in the better weather (all summer, spring, fall and warmish winter days, ie, around freezing + sunshine).

The youngest cat, approx. age 12, insists on going outdoors or in the unheated garage, even on cold winter days. This is definitely to hunt mice. What a fabulous mouser he is. I don't know much of this cat's history when we found him on the road one winter day about 11 years ago, but I assume when he was neutered, they gave him a rabies & some other nasty shots. But he has had nothing since, and will not, if I have anything to say about it.

The other cats are Male - 17 years old. No health problems, but he is slowing down, as they say. No shots.

Oldest cat - Female. Age 20 in April. She had one litter of kittens. When neutered, given one shot, and nothing since.

I tried feeding them red meat, raw, but it made no difference. So, they all get natural cat food, incl. some labled "organic", whatever that means.

When they go outside in the warm weather, they eat grass.

I don't know if there are laws in our area re rabies vaccine.



Animals feel pain & suffering just as we do, and they value their lives as much as we value ours.