Orchid wrote:

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 04:43:26 -0500, "Phil P."
wrote:

Remember that indoor-only cats tend to live longer than
free-roaming cats. For purebreds to continue to make up 6% of the
owned population, breeders could not churn out 2.6 million cats per
year. I'd be extremely surprised if breeders registered half a
million cats per year -- I'll send some emails out to the registries
and see if I can get some information regarding total number of cats
registered last year in each of the major registries.

I have all kinds of conflicting data - but I'd still like to know. Perhaps
I wouldn't be so hard on them.

I have numbers! Only a couple, but I'll post more as I
get them.

CFA - 44,777
AACE - 10,000

So the current total is 54,777. I'm going to estimate that TICA's
number will be very close to CFA's, and that ACFA is going to be
around half TICA and CFA. So my current projection is a total of
122,277 purebred cats registered in the US last year. Which is a *far
cry* from 2.6 million.


Thanks for finding this info and posting it, Orchid. You are correct; that's a
comparative drop in the bucket.