‘Facts About Feral Cats’
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals: each year 860,000 cats are euthanized in U.S.
Feral cats live in colonies. Their life expectancy is two to three years but could be 10 years if fed. They could have four litters per year of four to six kits.
Thirty-six to 60 percent of dumped domestic cats go feral within three years.
California Animal Control in 1999 received 9.5 million over three years from a private foundation which funded surgical procedures on 170,334 feral cats.