Kitten Season!

  

With kitten season fast approaching, now is the perfect time to start planning to desex your kitten. Kittens can go on to heat from as early as 16 weeks of age. At only 24 weeks of age they could be the mother of up to 8 kittens. Having babies when your pet is still a kitten them-self, can cause a number of physical and medical problems which can cost you a lot of your time and money as well as permanently affecting the well-being of your pet.

Every year thousands of unwanted cats and kittens are taken to the pound in NSW. In 2009 of the 50,462 taken in at the pound only 36% were released either through adoption or being returned to their owners. That means 64% were unfortunately humanely euthanised; this can be due to the cat being injured or sick, unsuitable for adoption, or more commonly, due to overcrowding in the pound. This data does not include cats and kittens euthanised in vet clinics or small animal shelters, or those cats who die living on the street.

To help save all these unwanted cats and kittens please call us today to discuss desexing your pet, and do your part to reduce the number of animals destroyed in pounds every year.

The below table is just to give you an idea of how many kittens one undesexed cat can bring into the world, and how quickly the stray population can grow. 

  

To take it further, if none of the kittens born are desexed, this is what can happen over the course of 9 years... 1 Year: 12 Kittens  2 Years: 67 Kittens  3 Years: 376 Kittens  4 Years: 2,107 Kttens  5 Years: 11,801 Kittens  6 Years: 66,088 Kittens  7 Years: 370,092 Kittens  8 Years: 2,072,514 Kittens  9 Years: 11,606,077 Kittens!