A leading Melbourne animal shelter is facing its biggest kitten breeding season in almost a decade after the pandemic, begging owners to desex their animals.
There is a wall of mewling cats in the quarantine room at The Lost Dogs’ Home in North Melbourne. A coop door swings open to reveal a mottled female, nursing half a dozen tiny kittens, barely 48 hours old.
“It’s kind of scary to think about that one undesexed female and a mate, how quickly she can create a large population problem,” Wilde says. And despite successful efforts in the past two decades to drive down the population of lost and roaming felines, the number of cats turning up at The Lost Dogs’ Home is trending in the wrong direction.
The shelter’s directors believe the jump in numbers is likely a delayed effect of the COVID lockdowns, when councils pulled back local law enforcement and cat trapping services.
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