March is just around the corner, especially since March for cats can come at any time of the year. If you are thinking about what is better to do: sterilize the cat or put stronger screens on the windows (metal, anti-cat), then here is the right option: it is better to do both.
A cat will not go very far from home, but she can run away into the street, and there she will need a couple of hours to find a cat and in 2 months please the owners with kittens. And a cat is ready for such things for a cat that sometimes you can't believe it.
Can walk 4 km
According to general statistics, a cat can go 4 km from home in search of a female cat. Usually, he doesn't have to go that far, and yet.
If there are no suitable cats in his locality, he can go to another locality, through the forest, snow, wind and other weather conditions that are normally extremely unpleasant for cats.
There are many dangers along the way, so he runs a high risk of never returning.
He can climb a very tall tree after a cat
Usually there are no trees higher than 16 meters in the city, but even this is already the height of the fifth floor, so a cat who can't stay on the tree runs a high risk of losing his/her body.
Moreover, cats usually climb after a female cat in a group of several, and there, on thin branches, they arrange dangerous fights.
They climb onto balconies and through windows, climb up the walls of houses, go down into basements, climb into attics
Not every owner, having found a strange cat on his balcony or even in his apartment, will react in a friendly manner. And cats often climb into other people's apartments to cats.
As for attics and basements, cats and cats risk being accidentally locked in by some workers.
Climbing walls - it would seem that only a few cats are capable of this. In fact, most of them can commit such a reckless act, because the breeding program puts pressure on the brain so much that it suppresses even the strongest instinct for self-preservation.
In general, they expose themselves to hundreds of dangers
Among which are fences with barbed wire, shaky cornices, slippery drainpipes.
Fight with other cats
Cat fights are very dangerous, because each of them has sharp teeth and claws.
Cats on a bender may not eat for several days
Because they are tormented by a different kind of hunger, and they simply forget about other important needs of their body. An emaciated and ragged Barsik, who returned home after 2 weeks of a bender, is still a good option, because he did return.
Many cats lose their vitality so much that even a small danger, which they would definitely avoid if they were well-fed, turns into a big problem for them. After all, they become weaker and lose their agility, and on the street you need to keep your ears open: there are dogs, cars and other insidious things all around.
In general, an uncastrated cat is much more likely to risk his life than a castrated one. A castrated cat is not very eager to go outside, and if he does go for a walk, he does not go far from home and behaves much more cautiously. After all, there is no point in him performing dangerous feats for the sake of a cat.