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. 2019 Sep 19;9(9):703. doi: 10.3390/ani9090703

Table 1.

The percentage of cat owners in this sample who reported having lost a cat in the past to each of the situations listed below related to an outdoor lifestyle. Participants were able to select multiple responses.

% N
Car Accident 34.1 1833
Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) 5.1 275
Dog attack 7.4 396
Human attack 3.3 178
Skin cancer 5.7 307
Injury from wildlife (e.g., snakebite) 7.3 395
Ingesting poisons (e.g., rat bait) 3.6 191
Falling from a height (e.g., out of a window or tree, or off a ledge) 1.1 61
Unknown, my cat never came home 23.6 1272
Other 17.8 959
None of the above 33.8 1818