Life is better with a cat, and what’s even better is when they are safe at home because we all want our feline friends to live their best lives. That’s why providing a secure and enriching indoor environment ensures that your cat lives a long, healthy, and happy life.
It’s never been easier to protect your cat and keep them from harm. Some simple steps to prevent disease and danger include desexing, microchipping, and harnessing, all of which are essential for their safety and well-being.
By creating a safe, stimulating, and loving indoor environment for your cuddly companion, you’re helping to ensure their health and happiness and contributing to the well-being of local wildlife and the environment.
It can be easier and more affordable than you might think.
Keep your cat safe at home with secure indoor setups, outdoor enclosures, or escape-proof fencing. Explore practical ways to create a safe and enriching environment.
Want to transition your cat to the safe-at-home life?
With planning and patience, you can help your cat adjust to staying safely at home, protecting them from accidents and keeping them happy and enriched.
More than 50% of cats in NSW already live safe at home… Here are just a few of them to give you some motivation and inspiration! Do you have a creative catio? Have you made the most of small space? Do you have a genius cat enrichment hack? We’d love to see them and share with our cat-loving community.
Keeping Cats Safe at Home is a ground-breaking four-year project that aims to encourage and support cat carers everywhere to keep their pets indoors. Using research, education, and targeted desexing, we’re hoping to keep cats safe, improve animal welfare education, and protect the natural environment and our beautiful wildlife animals.
If allowed to roam outside, your cat may be vulnerable to a variety of risks (like sustaining an injury from cars) or damage your local community by preying on native wildlife. For purpose-built resources on creating a home where your cat can feel loved, stimulated, and engaged, you can contact our Keeping Cats Safe at Home team at safecats@rspcansw.org.au.
RSPCA NSW have created and implemented feline management toolkits with 11 NSW partner councils, including:
