By the time, caregivers arrived after being tipped off, only 2 very frightened cats remained.
The rest were probably hiding in the drains.
Abandoned home-cats is sheer cruelty. One can imagine how frightened the cats must be! As fearful as children lost in a shopping centre!
It is heart-breaking for caregivers to see the suffering of these cats. It is also frustrating for the caregivers who spent a lot of effort, time and money to neuter the cats in the neighbourhood. Now they have to search for 6 "new" cats to trap for neutering.
If the caregivers didn't arrive at the scene to help, how would the cleaners treat the two cats still in the cages. Would they remove all the cages including the two with the cats in them and dump them into the garbage truck that compresses the rubbish? There is absolutely NO training or protocol to guide these cleaners on how to handle such animal-related issues humanely.
The cargivers will do what they have to do, i.e. search for these frightened cats, and if found, trap for neutering.
If only the town council will be more appreciate of their effort and not blame them for an increase in the number of cats. If these caregivers give up this "cat managment" or TnRm (Trap-Neuter-Release-Manage), it will be back to endless cycles of culling without any reduction in complaints. In fact complaints may increase with an un-neutered population of cats!
Caregivers need help to reach out to owners of cats to educate them on what it means to be a responsible cat owners and to inform such owners that abandonment is a crime!
It is time that HDB realises that its archaic cat ban does NOTHING to stop residents from keeping cats. In fact HDB officers will inform HDB cat owners (if there are complaints against them, mainly resulting from the lack of confinement of these cats within their flats) to "remove" the cats and these cats may end up in the void deck like these 8 cats! The owners may not even be residing in this block!
Named Morgan (photo taken on 20-02-2010)
These two cats could have been in these cages all their lives!
They are now boarded in a shelter and will be sent for neutering and vaccination.
If you would like to support the care of these cats or better still, adopt them , do email to adoptarescuedcat@gmail.com
