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A liter is a measurement for liquid in the metric system so I'm going to assume you meant litter as in kittens. The average female cat reaches puberty at 4-12 months and can have up to 3 litters per year. The average domestic cat lives to be 16 so if we start at 12 months that would be 3 litters per year for 15 years or 45 and possibly 46 litters. A litter is usually 6-9 kittens so the average female could conceivably (no pun intended) produce 276 offspring. Hope this helps.

Here is my answer. but first...smart alack above you obviously knew what they meant so why be a smart alack and second a litter cannot have 60-90 kittens a litter can have 1-9 thank you. (lets keep this PG folks)

Excuse me but may i point out that fertile female cats usually have 3-9 kittens which on average have 1 male 2 females and based on statistics 2-3 of them die because of not being able to feed.

now i have been searching this question also and here is the conclusion ive come to after weeding out the "spade your cat" and " breed only so many times" answers.

a cat goes into heat about every two weeks and they can have there first litter at about 9 months old. though most cats don't have there first litter until about a year old. going from there a cats gestation is about 9-10 weeks long (64 days) a cat can go into heat as soon as 1-2 months after a litter is born. so that is about every 4 months a cat can have a litter or about 3 times a year. at this rate a queen will die from the stress at under 10 years old if they have a "colony" that is fed by humans. on its own it can live for as short as two years so that means between 6 and 30 litters a lifetime. now multiply that by the amount of kittens in a litter that is 9-27 kittens a year and 18-270 cats in a lifetime. now granted half of those 270 cats wont live to breed but the other 135 could live on to have 270 kittens of there own 135 will survive and have 135 survivors...get my point? but remember you can cut down on the litters not only by neutering your queen but also by neutering your tom. just a thought.

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