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| 251 | Cats' Angel | I wish to do more for the stray cats and hope to get the co-operation of the public to stop abuse and care for animals. I also hope that cat-feeders in the neighbourhood to be more cooperative & understanding with one and another, for the better welfare of the cats. |
| 252 | Gina Ho | Please re-instate SCRS; the humane solution to managing stray cat population. |
| 253 | Anonymous | We can't simply kill all our "problem" ... human are the biggest virus in the world, do we wipe us off the face of the earth ? |
| 254 | Haslinda | |
| 255 | Kevin Lu | |
| 256 | Marcus Loo | Please spare these lovely creatures. |
| 257 | Anonymous | |
| 258 | Fahmy Said | |
| 259 | Lilian Wee | |
| 260 | John Chan | The Straits Times
Online STForum
April 7, 2007
Town councils, please educate irresponsible pet owners
OUT of concern over the constant killing of cats by the town council in response to complaints, a few residents including me, decided to volunteer in ‘cat management’ to cover about 20 blocks of HDB flats in my estate. ‘Cat management’ includes sterilising community cats and helping the town council investigate and resolve complaints about cats.
After four years that include many hours waiting for elusive cats to walk into cat traps on loan from the Cat Welfare Society, we are happy that almost all the cats in our part of the estate now sport a left tipped ear, a sign that it is sterilised, will not emit a caterwauling noise and will not produce litter after litter of unwanted kittens. Noise from male cats fighting to dominate female cats is now limited to the occasional fight over territory.
Our concern now is the lack of regulations on pet ownership. During the four-year period of ‘cat management’, we identified two families with unsterilised cats that were allowed to roam freely. We spoke to these families and persuaded them to let us send their cats to the vet for sterilisation. Recently, there was a family with five cats but they allowed us to send only four for sterilisation. As this family admitted they leave their cats ‘downstairs’, we now worry this one unsterilised female cat may be allowed to breed and the kittens will be abandoned. This will be a setback in the control of the cat population in the estate.
We appeal to the town council and perhaps the residential committees to help educate these irresponsible pet owners.
However, if the HDB will replace its ban on cats with regulations to impose a fine on owners who refuse to sterilise their cats and allow them to roam freely in the common corridors, this will speed up the success of the Trap-Neuter-Release-Manage (TnRM) programme to reduce the population of community cats humanely and cost-effectively. We too want a decrease in the cat population but we believe this can be done without the need to kill them by applying evidence-based TnRM.
Carol Sim Swee Chin (Ms) |
| 261 | Anonymous | |
| 262 | Yvette Yeow | |
| 263 | vee chong | Animals are part of our society and the govt should open their hearts to acknowledge their existence. In order to build a gracious society, the govt must take the lead. Please teach your citizens to love life and not kill unnecessarily. |
| 264 | Poon Sook Ching | YES! Cats have a right to live too! |
| 265 | Jonela Zarija | |
| 266 | Suhaimi Kamis | |
| 267 | Anonymous | It's sad that humane methods of controlling stray cats population are taken away by the Government. The SCRS is the only long-term solution to overpopulation of cats. |
| 268 | Amy Lim | Animals have a right to life too. Stop the unneccessary killing. |
| 269 | Oiern Sabine Sakasian | One of the primary misconceptions about stray/community cat caregivers is that they "establish" cat colonies. In fact, the opposite is true. Stray cat caregivers are helping cats who are already there. And by working to feed and alter the cats, the caregivers are improving the lives of the cats and reducing potential problems. Through TNR, the caregivers are actively helping the cats and working to reduce their numbers over time. By feeding the cats, they are reducing wandering and other behaviors that may lead to "conflicts" with others. By re-instating the SCRS, the AVA can help these individual caregivers more in reducing the cat population the humane way. |
| 270 | Gary Cheok | |
| 271 | carmen | |
| 272 | lincoln | |
| 273 | Ngiam Mui Wah | It's a very good idea. Pls reinstate it. Give them a chance to live. |
| 274 | Jamie Koh | The government chooses to eradicate anything which is not economically viable. It has lost compassion, yet we are falsely proclaiming to be a warm and welcoming society. Animals simply do not have any place in the society.. right? |
| 275 | Anonymous | |
| 276 | Travis Cooper | |
| 277 | Damy | |
| 278 | Wendy Eng | |
| 279 | Merrijo Hatfield | It's our fault there are so many unwanted pets, and we should solve the problem. |
| 280 | Anonymous | |
| 281 | Aminah Bee | Sterilisation not culling is the humane way to solve stray cats overpopulation. |
| 282 | Anonymous | |
| 283 | Lan Ruoting | There is no reason why residents in Singapore should pay S&CC and taxes to be used in unproductive ways like the current trap-and-cull approach to stray animals, when there are more effective options available. In fact, the successfulness and effectiveness of SCRS was proven in the Bukit Merah View study. Re-instating the SCRS will not only allow the community and AVA to enjoy peaceful nights and reduce the cat population in Singapore. it helps the AVA keep track of the health of the cat population as there are care-givers checking on these cats daily. |
| 284 | Lynn J | If the government would reinstated this SCRS programme.. all the caregivers of "community cats" will be most relieved that we have the support from the government. Please reinstate this programme back as it really helps the cats "to have a bit of share in this world". The funding will really help everyone and esp the cats/kittens who are in need to survive and with the TNRM programme too more cats can be neuter and adopt a more humane solution.. |
| 285 | Shela Keenan | |
| 286 | Nicole Tan | |