Hi!
This for all those who still beleive that the simplest and best way to deal with the "cat catastrophe" is to and capture and rehome them. In 2015 the current estimated Australian population number was 24,017,400. The current esitimated number of pet domesticated cats is 3,300,000 and the number of feral cats is well over 20,000,000. There are around 9.2 million residential homes across Australia. Now the first and foremost issue is where do we hold all of those feral cats while we give them homes? The pound? A lot of animal shelters are already filled there maximum capacity. Another issue is treatment for those with fleas and other conditions would be extermly expensisve. Also where is the goverment going to get the time and man power to catch every cat??? The biggest problem though is that there is simply not enough homes to put them in even if everything else was worked around. Every single person would have to take in more then one cat (that includes the homeless who can't afford the essentials let alone cat food). If we some how worked through all of those issues there is still a problem. Thats a lot of cats to feed and production of cat food would skyrocket and so would it cost to the point where it would become to expensive for the avergae person to feed there cats which leads to more cats being abonded and ending up back in the bush. If you still think that cats can be rehomed you are living with fairys there is simply no possible way of doing it great idea of it would work but it simply will not.
Regards
CN
@Admins of APS sorry if this is in the wrong spot wasn't sure where to put it.
This for all those who still beleive that the simplest and best way to deal with the "cat catastrophe" is to and capture and rehome them. In 2015 the current estimated Australian population number was 24,017,400. The current esitimated number of pet domesticated cats is 3,300,000 and the number of feral cats is well over 20,000,000. There are around 9.2 million residential homes across Australia. Now the first and foremost issue is where do we hold all of those feral cats while we give them homes? The pound? A lot of animal shelters are already filled there maximum capacity. Another issue is treatment for those with fleas and other conditions would be extermly expensisve. Also where is the goverment going to get the time and man power to catch every cat??? The biggest problem though is that there is simply not enough homes to put them in even if everything else was worked around. Every single person would have to take in more then one cat (that includes the homeless who can't afford the essentials let alone cat food). If we some how worked through all of those issues there is still a problem. Thats a lot of cats to feed and production of cat food would skyrocket and so would it cost to the point where it would become to expensive for the avergae person to feed there cats which leads to more cats being abonded and ending up back in the bush. If you still think that cats can be rehomed you are living with fairys there is simply no possible way of doing it great idea of it would work but it simply will not.
Regards
CN
@Admins of APS sorry if this is in the wrong spot wasn't sure where to put it.
