There are irresponsible cat owners who do not look after their cats or abandon them. The result is feral cats that breed uncontrollably. A single cat can have over 30 offspring after two years.

In addition, the regular feeding of un-neutered stray cats encourages uncontrolled reproduction and is thoughtless and inappropriate in terms of animal welfare.

In order to counteract the unchecked reproduction of cats, the neutering and identification obligation was introduced in Wolfsburg in 2013 and extended in 2018 by the ordinance on the neutering obligation in the city of Wolfsburg to include the registration obligation. You can find it here.

According to this, cat owners who allow their cats access to the outdoors must have them neutered and microchipped (minimum age 5 months) and are also obliged to register their cats in one of the pet registration databases (e.g. Tasso or Findefix - formerly the German Pet Register) immediately upon identification.

Feral cats are not lost and found cats.

Many well-cared-for domestic cats are allowed to roam free and use territories of varying sizes for their forays. However, experience has shown that cats that are found always return to their owner. For this reason, you should not feed them and thus bind them to you.

If you have seen a cat several times and it can be handled, it is usually a domestic cat that may have escaped (found cat).

If you have found a lost cat, you must report the lost animal either to the Wolfsburg animal shelter, telephone 05362 51063,

or at the Wolfsburg police station, telephone 05361 4646-0,

or to the Wolfsburg fire department, telephone 05361 844-0.

The city of Wolfsburg is not responsible for their care. They differ from found cats in that they are usually very shy of people and will not let them touch them.