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🇹🇭 Thailand

1 in 119 of the world’s cats lives here

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Numbers

pets

4.31 million 📎 www.nationthailand.com 2026 4,306,843 cats surveyed (rabies command centre)

street

0.75 million 🎲 cms.stateofpethomelessness.com 2024 SoPH ~753k homeless cats, unverified extract

Share of the world’s cats

0.8% 🎲

Lifespan in the data

11.2 yrs 🎲

Neutered (pets / street)

45% / 7.0% 📎 www.frontiersin.org street = semi-owned cats 7% sterilised; home value sim

Kept indoors

35% 🎲

And what kind of cat 🎲

• a cat from an ordinary home43%
• a cat from a poor household17%
• a cat from a wealthy home15%
• a street cat8.6%
• a show-cattery cat6.8%
• a backyard-bred kitten3.4%
• a kitten from an unwanted litter3.3%
• a temple, shrine or mosque cat3.0%
• a lab cat<0.1%

Beliefs about cats

• Black cats: the Thai cat treatises list both lucky and unlucky cats
• Thai cat treatises: some coats are thought auspicious

Laws and policies

• Municipal neuter programmes — Bangkok and municipalities run free neuter rounds · foundations do TNVR at temples. 📎 he01.tci-thaijo.org 📎 www.four-paws.org.au
• Bangkok ordinance B.E. 2567 — Cats and dogs must be registered and microchipped. 📎 www.khaosodenglish.com
• Pet caps by home size — Condos of 20–80 m² may keep 1 pet. 📎 www.khaosodenglish.com

Help real cats in Thailand

• Soi Dog Foundation — Rescue, neutering, vaccination and rehoming of strays www.soidog.org
• Lanta Animal Welfare — Koh Lanta cat and dog rescue, sterilisation, mobile clinics www.lantaanimalwelfare.com
• Thai Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — Anti-cruelty work and animal welfare law projects thaispca.org
• BMA vet clinics — Free dog and cat spay/neuter, office hours, 8 clinics webportal.bangkok.go.th
• Soi Dog CNVR — Neuters & vaccinates strays in over a third of provinces www.soidog.org

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