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🇨🇳 China

1 in 6 of the world’s cats lives here

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Numbers

pets

70 million 📎 36kr.jp 2023 ~70M urban registered cats (White Paper 2023)

street

37 million 📎 en.wikipedia.org range 22–53M, midpoint; press, wide spread

Share of the world’s cats

18% 📎

Lifespan in the data

10.5 yrs 🎲

Neutered (pets / street)

50% / 5.0% 🎲

Kept indoors

75% 🎲

And what kind of cat 🎲

• a cat from an ordinary home32%
• a street cat24%
• a cat from a poor household13%
• a cat from a wealthy home12%
• a kitten from an unwanted litter7.7%
• a show-cattery cat5.3%
• a temple, shrine or mosque cat2.8%
• a backyard-bred kitten2.7%
• a lab cat<0.1%

Beliefs about cats

• Black cats: no strong belief

Laws and policies

• Shenzhen dog & cat meat ban — First mainland Chinese city to ban eating dogs and cats, from 1 May 2020. 📎 amp.cnn.com

Help real cats in China

• SPCA (Hong Kong) — Cat Colony Care Programme, adoption, vet clinics www.spca.org.hk
• Lifelong Animal Protection Charity (LAP) (Hong Kong) — Hong Kong cat adoption centre and TNR project www.lap.org.hk
• SPCA Hong Kong — Hong Kong: free desexing, vaccines, chips for colony cats www.spca.org.hk

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