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🇧🇷 Brazil

1 in 18 of the world’s cats lives here

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Numbers

pets

30.8 million 📎 panoramapetvet.com.br 2023 Instituto Pet Brasil / Abinpet: 30.8M cats in homes (year-end 2023 survey)

street

2.4 million 🎲 www.cnnbrasil.com.br IPB 2024: ~4.8M dogs AND cats "in vulnerable conditions", no cat split → half 🎲 · the "10M street cats (WHO)" claim has no traceable source

Share of the world’s cats

5.5% 🎲

Lifespan in the data

11.5 yrs 🎲

Neutered (pets / street)

35% / 5.0% 🎲 no national neuter rate · Porto Alegre 2023: 33% of owned cats roam (real) → indoorChance; neuter values 🎲

Kept indoors

60% 🎲

And what kind of cat 🎲

• a cat from an ordinary home46%
• a cat from a poor household18%
• a cat from a wealthy home17%
• a show-cattery cat7.4%
• a street cat5.1%
• a backyard-bred kitten3.7%
• a kitten from an unwanted litter1.7%
• a temple, shrine or mosque cat0.4%
• a lab cat<0.1%

Beliefs about cats

• Black cats: still seen as unlucky by many

Laws and policies

• City free-neutering drives — Many cities run free neutering, e.g. Porto Alegre: 31,651 dogs and cats in 2023. 📎 prefeitura.poa.br
• Lei 14.228/2021 (no culling) — Zoonosis-control units and public pounds may not cull dogs and cats, except for disease or health risk. 📎 www2.camara.leg.br

Help real cats in Brazil

• SUIPA – Sociedade União Internacional Protetora dos Animais — Rio de Janeiro shelter, vet help, adoption fairs www.suipa.org.br

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