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🇦🇺 Australia

1 in 65 of the world’s cats lives here

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Numbers

pets

5.3 million 📎 animalmedicinesaustralia.org.au 2025

street

4 million 📎 www.smithsonianmag.com 2–6M feral, midpoint

Share of the world’s cats

1.6% 📎

Lifespan in the data

10.2 yrs 🎲

Neutered (pets / street)

85% / 5.0% 🎲

Kept indoors

55% 🎲

And what kind of cat 🎲

• a street cat31%
• a cat from an ordinary home29%
• a cat from a poor household11%
• a kitten from an unwanted litter10%
• a cat from a wealthy home10%
• a show-cattery cat4.6%
• a backyard-bred kitten2.3%
• a temple, shrine or mosque cat1.7%
• a lab cat<0.1%

Beliefs about cats

• Black cats: no strong belief

Laws and policies

• Threatened Species Strategy 2015 — Target: 2M feral cats culled by 2020 · 5 islands cleared · 10 fenced cat-free areas. 📎 www.agriculture.gov.au
• RSPCA Australia shelters — FY2022-23: 33,747 cats received, 21,735 rehomed, 6,224 euthanised (≈18%). 📎 www.dogster.com

Help real cats in Australia

• RSPCA Australia — Rehoming centres, cruelty inspections, welfare policy www.rspca.org.au
• Cat Protection Society of NSW — Cat rehoming, low-cost desexing, no-kill approach catprotection.org.au
• NDN desexing — Low-cost desexing for pension or concession card holders www.ndn.org.au

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