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🇲🇾 Malaysia

1 in 80 of the world’s cats lives here

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Numbers

pets

2.5 million 🎲 no official count · Rakuten 2021: 34% of online respondents own a cat · DOSM 2020: 8.2M households → 2.5M is a game value (an older 0.8M figure looks like a registered-pet count)

street

5 million 📎 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 2023 “believed ~5M stray cats”, the paper itself says the true number is unknown

Share of the world’s cats

1.3% 🎲

Lifespan in the data

9.4 yrs 🎲

Neutered (pets / street)

59% / 5.0% 📎 agris.fao.org 2019 Putrajaya survey: 59% of pets neutered (all species) · street share sim

Kept indoors

40% 🎲

And what kind of cat 🎲

• a street cat44%
• a cat from an ordinary home17%
• a kitten from an unwanted litter15%
• a temple, shrine or mosque cat8.0%
• a cat from a poor household6.7%
• a cat from a wealthy home6.0%
• a show-cattery cat2.7%
• a backyard-bred kitten1.3%
• a lab cat<0.1%

Beliefs about cats

• Black cats: no strong belief
• Mosque cats: fed and looked after

Help real cats in Malaysia

• SPCA Selangor — Cruelty reports, adoption, shelter www.spca.org.my
• PAWS Malaysia — Cat and dog shelter since 1987 www.paws.org.my
• SPCA Penang — Penang shelter, founded 1948 spca-penang.net
• DVS Malaysia — Government body for the Animal Welfare Act 2015 www.dvs.gov.my

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