A Michael Broad Blog
There is a growing feeling that human population growth is having a very bad effect on animals. Although you have to differentiate between domestic and wild animals. The UK’s favourite broadcaster, said David Attenborough, is an advocate for stabilising the planet’s human population. Negative effects [We should] stabilise the human population as low as …
Yes, it is estimated that there are more dogs than cats in the world as at 2020. In fact there are more dogs by a factor of two (100% more). The word “estimated” is important because nobody is actually counting. We are of course referring to domestic dogs and domestic cats and their feral …
No is the answer to the question in the title. In fact, there are far more humans in the world than cats. Humans outnumber cats by a factor of 16. In 2020 the world population of humans is 8 billion. We don’t know how many cats there are in the world exactly. You would …
You have probably heard about the $1.5 million Washington DC project to count all the cats, namely domestic, feral and strays and those in shelters. On this scale, it’ll be the first of its kind. It’s important because to the best of my knowledge Americans don’t know with reliable accuracy the number of feral …
Around 100 cats on the planet die every minute of every day on my calculation but it is based on a bunch of assumptions which I am forced to make because we don’t have the figures.
There are an approximate half a million domestic cats in London. I came to this figure as follows: There are 7.4 million cats in the UK. The population of London is 8.674 million. The population of the UK is 64.1 million. Therefore the population of London is 13.53% of the UK population. 13.53% of …
An RSPCA report states that in order for the domestic cat population to be stable (i.e. neither increasing or decreasing) the domestic cat neutering rate needs to be 92%. This means that 92% of domestic cats need to be neutered at any one time. Sadly, as at 2012, neutering rates in the UK of …
I recently wrote a short article about a survey which concluded that the domestic cat population in Australia was declining except in Tasmania. Not soon after I read that article I bumped into another article written by the science correspondent for the Daily Mail. The article comes to a similar conclusion namely that the …
