As Krabi Animal Welfare celebrates our 7th year in operation, we have a lot of information to get through from over the years. Our main focus has always been sterilization because it is the ONLY way to successfully approach the problem of overpopulation. People with vast sums of money have attempted to provide environments where animals can just replicate like mad and no matter how much money they throw at it, the end result is always overcrowding and eventually disease and suffering.
You see, animals are hard-wired to have as many offspring as they possibly can from tens of thousands of years of living in rather harsh conditions where it is expected that a majority of them do not survive. The survival of the species is dependent on them having as many offspring as possible. These days though and even in our modern times, many of those dangers have been eliminated and most animals are not hunted by various enemies and decimated by such things. These days, overpopulation can happen quite rapidly because of the fact that the animals, namely cats and dogs, do not have very many natural predators anymore but their urge to have as many offspring as possible continues regardless.
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These days what is most likely to happen is that they will get too many members in the pack and then competition for food will begin and then disease will spread quickly due to weakened immune systems. There is only one solution and that is sterilization.
Here are some stats that might actually blow your mind a bit and perhaps can shed light on how and why we have performed nearly 400 sterilizations in just 2025 thus far.
- Just one unspayed female cat and her immediate offspring are mathematically capable of producing around 400,000 cats over the course of 7 years.
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This of course is just a mathematical model and it has never actually happened. If such a thing was possible, cats would have taken over the world a long time ago. What actually ends up happening in the world that we live in is that a great many of them die due to disease or abandonment by the mother due to lack of food. In western countries that have animal control, 1.5 million cats are euthanized every single year.
Cats and dogs will continue to have more and more babies even once it is evident (to us) that doing so isn't going to help anyone involved. They don't have a plan, they are just reacting to natural instincts. Here in Krabi, it is extremely common to see a new load of kittens in your neighborhood a couple of times a year. Then, half a year later, almost all of them or in fact, all of them, are magically gone. Unfortunately this isn't because they were given wonderful homes either.
More often than not, the cats are either subjected to a wide variety of disease, or they become a nuisance to the various neighborhoods and they are chased off or in worse situations, intentionally poisoned. It's a tough life for a kitten in Thailand, and our primary focus is to prevent this.
The sad reality also is that cats that are semi-feral, are not good candidates for adoption. While dogs possess the social skills to adapt to human interaction, a cat is a far more solitary creature that isn't likely to take to being a pet and therefore will continue to live a "wild" life wherever it can. Dogs, especially the ones that end up at our temple projects, are constantly subjected to human interaction and even though they don't know it, the ones that approach the humans the most and develops a sort of personality are the ones that get adopted more often than not.
While we do not know exactly how much suffering we have prevented by our constant sterilization efforts, it is a lot more than none, and that makes it all worthwhile.
If you have a cat that is and indoor/outdoor cat (or a dog), I would highly suggest you consider getting it sterilized for not the sake of that animal, but to prevent the suffering of the offspring that it hasn't even had yet. It's really the only responsible thing to do. If you are in Krabi, we can help... just reach out to us
If you would like to see how you can help out or simply spread the word, please visit our website at
http://krabianimalwelfare.org
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