Some useful facts and figures about Cats Protection, the UK's leading cat welfare charity, founded in 1927...
- We have over 6,000 cats and kittens in our care at any time.
- We rehome and reunite 52,500 cats every year.
- We help to neuter 176,000 cats per year.
- We have 29 adoption centres spread across the UK.
- We have over 250 branches run by volunteers nationwide.
- We have around 8,000 active volunteers.
- We reunite 3,000 cats with their rightful owners every year.
To find out about our current campaigns, or to discuss the statistics in more detail please contact our Media Office.
Further cat facts...
UK cat population trends (source: study undertaken by Cats Protection’s funded research fellow, published in 2010)
There were an estimated 10,332,955 owned cats in the UK
26 per cent of households owned one or more cats. Of these households:
58 per cent owned one cat
29 per cent owned two cats
7 per cent owned three cats
6 per cent owned four or more cats