They can live happy, healthy lives outdoors with minimal attention-needs. Bringing a working cat home won’t be as easy as opening the door of your cat’s carrier and allowing them free range of their new space. These cats provide a service to the community as pest/rodent control and deterrent. · cullen says her cats have changed her perspective on what a pet can be— and she’s not alone. The working cats™ program is a green program that relocates sterilized and vaccinated unsocialized cats who would otherwise have been euthanized at the shelter to places that have problems with rats. Working cats is a feral cats advocacy program that seeks to find adoption placements for healthy adult cats that are not suitable for a traditional adoption because they have not been socialized to humans. The program was founded by melya kaplan, executive director of voice for the animals foundation. If not allowed a proper acclimation period, they can quickly leave and not return. The working cats® program in los angeles, california, created by animal activist melya in 1999, is a green program that relocates sterilized and vaccinated feral cats to residences or businesses with large rat populations. In this article, researchers present the results of a survey used to assess the success of a working cat program (wcp) designed to “to place poorly socialized cats in non-traditional homes,” often as pest deterrents [1]. More than 13,200 working cats have found free-range homes in 2020, and many programs have long waitlists to adopt these uniquely helpful pets, according to data from shelter animals count. Working cats are, by definition, unsuitable for traditional adoption as house pets, and have very limited socialization skills with humans.

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