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You answered your own question. A lot of people spay and neuter.

• ogre_codes 6y ago
  I thought it was clear with my second sentence. My question was facetious and rhetorical.
• ergocoder 6y ago
  In US, any cat that touches any shelter get spayed and neutered. Some shelters are also kill shelter. If the cat doesn't get adopted, it will be put down. Sometimes I wonder if we would accidentally make cats extinct.
  • egypturnash 6y ago
    Cats breed fast. Sexual maturity is 6-9 months, pregnancy takes 2-3 months, and a mother cat can go into heat a month after giving birth. Litters are mostly 2-6 kittens, and there is no such thing as "cat menopause" - your ancient housecat well past the end of a wild cat's lifespan can still get pregnant. As long as there's a few breeding pairs out there, they can repopulate quickly. You would have to go to a very deliberate effort to make them extinct. Or accidentally destroy everything they would eat - which, given that they will eat pretty much any animal they can take down, would be a serious global extinction event.
  • ogre_codes 6y ago
    House cats are insanely adaptable, it would be incredibly difficult to wipe them out. There are feral cats on every continent and while they are incredibly well adapted to cities and people, they also do just fine in the wild.