A "new" cat in the car park! Frightened, hungry and thirsty (he slurped a collection of condensed water under a car), he was easily trapped. Despite the fear, the vet assistant said he seemed like a docile cat.
Some town councils blame caregivers for "more cats" (especially when there is a surge of abandonment during the pre-festive period) in the neighbourhood to justify their "balanced" approach of culling.
In a well managed neighbourhood where caregivers spent a lot of money, time and effort to trap the cats to be neutered, they are on perpetual lookout for "new" abandoned cats so that they can be trapped before the pest controllers are activated by the town councils.
Abandonment is NOT the fault of caregivers. Nipping abandonment has to be a concerted effort between government bodies like the AVA, the HDB, the Town Councils, animal welfare organisations, the media, and the Residents' Committees to educate, provide low cost sterilisation and to remove the HDB ban on cats and replace with regulations to enforce responsibilities in keeping cats.
