Legislation
Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002Animal Welfare Act 2006
Welfare of Animals Act Northern Ireland 2011
Wild Mammals (Protection) Act 1996
Hunting Act 2004
Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006
Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011
Distribution and abundance
Feral cats are most conspicuous in areas of urban development, but also occur widely in the countryside. They have been introduced to many offshore islands to control rats and rabbits. The scarcity of mapped records outside urban areas probably reflects the difficulty in separating feral from dependent domestic cats.Estimates of feral cat abundance (numbers of individuals in the spring) across the UK, from Harriset al. (1995):
| United Kingdom | 813,000 |
| England | 625,000 |
| Scotland | 130,000 |
| Wales | 58,000 |
| N Ireland | no estimate |
Recent trends from the National Gamebag Census
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