ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to understand how the spatial, social, and cultural orderings—the "cat-egorizations"—of cats play out in relation to home, street, and other places, as well as in relation to actors who handle urban cats and, not least, legislative frameworks. It looks further upstream at the process of making pets killable, zooming in on the management of cats that roam free on urban streets, which are liminal spaces indeed. The chapter highlights the urban context which provides certain logics, where meaning is ascribed different "cat-egories" in relation to the place in question, and where ordering a perceived disorder using different methods is at the core. Besides the cat-egorization practices, numerous other technologies of crowd control involved in urban cat management. The chapter summarises the cat symbolism is also full of positive connotations surrounding the untamed: as free, wandering, and frivolous.
