Population Dynamics Of Free-Roaming Cats In Florida
This article describes a mathematical model to calculate the rate at which free-roaming cats would need to be spayed/neutered to prevent population growth in a Florida county. The author concludes that 370 cats per week must be spayed or neutered. He acknowledges that more complicated models are probably needed, as actual population growth is lower than his model would predict.
[Abstract excerpted from original text.]
“We investigate whether the Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program can be effectively used to control the population of free-roaming cats in Florida’s Lee County. We do this by estimating the number of cats that must be spayed/neutered in order to keep the population from increasing.”
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/ujmm/vol3/iss1/16/