Statistics show that 10-12 million pets are euthanized annually in the United States. 3,500 cats are also born. The majority of these cats and kittens are bright-eyed and healthy, with no physical or mental deformities. Because their caretakers, the ones who have sworn to love and protect these animals are not spaying and neutering. Just because a pet is pure-bred, exotic or declawed or cropped does not mean that this type of pet won't end up on the street or in a shelter.
Shelters are full of pure-breds, exotic, declawed and cropped unwanted pets.
Too many pet owners are grossly uneducated on this issue. Unwanted cat litters create the feral colonies of cats . There's no such thing as a stray cat, any more than there are native ferals - ferals are simply unwanted, abandoned domesticated house cats. Go ahead, just take a LOOK at actual excuses given to shelters and humane societies. In the meantime, the unwanted Tiger and Princess have grown to love and trust their caretaker, depending on them for their very lives.