Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Why were two sterilised cats trapped from Blk ** and Blk *** xxxx, that were subsequently killed in the AVA?
Dear ****,
We are supporting the cats sterilised programme and allowed the responsible cat lovers to look after their sterilised cats in the estate.
We will not take away any sterilised cats from the estate...However, the contractor who has mistakenly trapped two cats from the estate and did not check whether its were sterilised and send them to AVA.
We apologise for the mistake made by the pest control contractor.
We had penalised the pest control contractor and have remind them not to repeat the same mistake in future.
Regards
SML (Ms) Senior Property Officer
****** Town Council
Reply to Ms SML (the Senior Property Officer or SPO)
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:13 AM,
Dear Ms Seah
Thanks for your prompt response.
However we need to know
1) Why was the pest controller activated in the first place? Did you activate them and that they caught the wrong cats? If there was a complaint, why was the caregiver/CWS not informed?
2)Why didn't you supervise the trapping? From our understanding, this was supposed to be done to ensure the pest controllers caught the "right" cats.
3)The supervisor/s involved in this wrong trapping so that we can speak to him/them to educate him/them on what tipped ears mean. Are the personnel in your cleaning contractor certified by AVA to be trained pest controllers?
4) What penalty was meted out to the pest controller?
This is very upsetting as we put in a LOT of effort and a LOT of our own MONEY to manage the cats in our estate. We are NOT crazy CAT LOVERS who want more cats. Please avoid this term of reference. We are residents who have an awareness of the need to manage cats in a HUMANE manner which is really a win-win situation for the town council as well as it means less cats - less complaints.
However we wish the town council to acknowlege our effort, just as it has acknowleged residents who are Plant-lovers and herb-lovers by alloting plots of lands for them to plant their plants and herbs.
We wish for the town council to
1)Support our sterilisation program by writing to AVA to reimburse our sterilisation fees; this reimbursement is already in place but AVA needs the town council to activate it.
2) Put up posters in the blocks to promote
a) Responsible Pet Ownership (available from the SPCA www.spca.org.sg)
b) Responsible Feeding (posters from www.spca.org.sg and www.catwelfare.org)
Thank you and have a good weekend.
