TODAY
More effective measures needed to stop abandonment of cats
05:55 AM Sep 29, 2010
Letter from Dr Tan Chek Wee
For the past six years, I have been partnering with fellow residents in my HDB neighbourhood to manage the cats by trapping them for neutering, releasing them and provide assistance to the town council in resolving feedback about cats (this is also known as Trap-Neuter-Release-Manage or TnRm for short).
In past one month, we have had an increase in the number of “new” cats in the neighbourhood. I am in the Facebook “cat network” with other cat caregivers all over the island and many of us face the same increase in “new” cats during this period. We all share the same frustrations of the lack of effective support from the relevant authorities to resolve the problem of abandonment of cats.
We need to formulate more effective and practical measures such as offering low-cost sterilisation and more intensive education.
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