According to Snopes.com, “Here are the assumptions used for the population projection: One female cat gives birth to six kittens per year. Kitten gender is 50 percent female, and only 25 percent of kittens survive to reproductive age. All surviving female kittens become adults and reproduce with the same birth and kitten mortality rates. If no adult cats ever die, how many cats/kittens would there be at the end of seven years? One female cat and her offspring could produce between 100 and 400 cats by the end of seven years.”
There are several low-cost spay-neuter programs available and I urge Kingston Aldermen Senor and Fuentes and others to craft a bill that requires people who feed and harbor these cats to neuter them and have certificates available to prove they have done this.
The problem is less feeding stray cats than it is taking responsibility for spaying and altering them.
Residents in our square block area know this all too well from the cats laying under our bird feeders waiting to kill the birds and spraying our house foundations and gardens.
