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Some of these cats may be owned pets that are permitted by their caretakers to go outside unsupervised, some may be tame strays who were formerly owned, but have been lost or abandoned, and some may be feral cats, those with no socialization whose disposition makes them unsuitable as domestic pets.
Often, people who adopt kittens from shelters do not have the animals altered, and they are allowed to reproduce, adding to the severe crisis of cat overpopulation. Feral colonies are the result of individuals who allow their unaltered cats to roam and mate with other unaltered outdoor cats.