Pet Tips

Did You Know?

Millions of unwanted and homeless cats are born in this country every year. During the peak of the kitten season, from late April through September, humane shelters kill unwanted and abandoned cats at the rate of over one per minute.

Others are less fortunate and are left to wander — easy prey for larger animals, easy targets for cars and easy marks for cruel pranksters. If they do survive, they attain maturity and bring forth five or six kittens, mostly females, to continue this visious cycle.

Cats can become pregnant while nursing a litter. They can have as many as 3 litters a year. Every cat owner whose cat is unspayed or unneutered and allowed to roam, must bear the responsibility for this terrible over-population.

Remember, one female cat’s cumulative offspring in ten years could total over 80 million.
Two uncontrolled breeding cats... plus all of their kittens, and all of their kittens’ kittens, if none are ever spayed or neutered add up to:

• 2 litters per year

• 2.8 surviving kittens per litter

• 10 year breeding life

• in ten years could reach 80,399,780

1st year 12
2nd year 68
3rd year 382
4th year 2,021
5th year 12,680
6th year 73,041
7th year 420,715
8th year 2,423,316
9th year 13,958,290
10th year 80,399,7

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