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🇻🇳 Vietnam

1 in 109 of the world’s cats lives here

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Numbers

pets

4 million 🎲 no official cat count · industry estimate ~4M households (14%) own cats (AFIA via Global Pet Industry, year unconfirmed) · one cat per household used as a floor

street

1.5 million 🎲 no estimate found; strays are thinned by theft for meat (Four Paws 2020) · 1.5M is a game value

Share of the world’s cats

0.9% 🎲

Lifespan in the data

10.8 yrs 🎲

Neutered (pets / street)

20% / 2.0% 🎲 no national neuter rate · Four Paws Da Nang/Hoi An sterilised 454 animals in 2023 (real) · shares sim

Kept indoors

50% 🎲

And what kind of cat 🎲

• a cat from an ordinary home36%
• a street cat19%
• a cat from a poor household15%
• a cat from a wealthy home13%
• a show-cattery cat5.8%
• a kitten from an unwanted litter5.5%
• a backyard-bred kitten2.9%
• a temple, shrine or mosque cat2.7%
• a lab cat<0.1%

Beliefs about cats

• Black cats: still seen as unlucky by many

Help real cats in Vietnam

• FOUR PAWS Vietnam — Free spay/neuter and vaccines in Da Nang, Hoi An www.four-paws.org
• Paws for Compassion — Sterilisation, vaccines, school talks in Da Nang pawsforcompassion.org
• Animals Asia — Cat and dog welfare, ending the meat trade www.animalsasia.org
• Humane World for Animals — Works with authorities to end the meat trade www.humaneworld.org

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