On a large number of occasions, Aylesbury Cat Rescue gets involved on outside sites and in homes where a cat population has got out of hand because the cats are not neutered or spayed.

The following Illustrates the point:

A feral colony often starts when cats are being fed by a well meaning person, say, at a factory, they start with two cats one male, one female. When these cats mate, within 9 weeks they can have between two and six kittens, for this illustration we will assume they have four, two male and two female.

Within three months you now have six cats. At six months the female kittens can now reproduce, using the assumption above, eight more kittens are produced plus four more from the mother.

By the end of the year you have 18 cats ready to reproduce again.

As the number of cats increase, the food supply becomes more and more strained, cats starve, kittens die because the mother is undernourished and diseases like cat flu can go through a colony like wildfire, due to their weakened state.

People Panic, if the cats are lucky the factory calls in the RSPCA, Cats Protection League or us to trap and re-home the cats.

If not, they are starved out or pest control people are brought in to simply kill them to get rid of them.

The domestic situation is no better, owners with unspayed females will continually have kittens, if they are lucky the owner will find good homes for them or pass them onto us.

If not anything could happen, the mother gets kicked out, kittens are dumped, we have found kittens left under a hedge in a plastic bag.

There are still barbaric people about who put the kittens in a sack and drown them.

A CASE HISTORY…….or one of our success stories

Blobby

Blobby is the largest cat ever brought in to Aylesbury Cat Rescue, he weighs in at  25 pounds and was adopted by Brenda as was Tiddly Puss and Jaws who were hand reared and adopted by Blobby. Tiddley Puss & Jaws are permanent  foster cats as they are cat flue carriers.