Responsible Cat Feeding

Responsible Feeding of a Community Cat called Kunyit

There ARE residents who LOVE cats and they ARE residents who feed community cats RESPONSIBLY

"Balancing" the interest of "cat lovers" and "cat haters" is NOT by KILLING the cats but by resolving problems HUMANELY through sterilisation of the homeless cats, educating cat-owners to be responsible by sterilisation, keeping the home-cats indoor and NOT abandoning their pets and through educating residents who feed cats to do so responsibly.

This lady is in her 80s and she loves animals. One of the joys for her is to offer food to the community cats such as this one named Long-Tail, on her way to the market. She places the cat food on a paper plate and on her way home from the market, she picks up the paper plate with whatever left-over food and discard into the dust-bin nearby.

Fracas over cat feeding leads to case, mediation and apologies

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Note to feeders: It is important to keep calm and not resort to the tactics of others to yell, insult, intimidate. More important, feed responsibly so that we have a strong case against detractors. Remember, we are ambassadors to our community cats.

To those faced with irresponsible feeding issues, do contact NEA and CWS so that issues can be resolved amicably.

Feeding cats responsibly

Makine Paper Bowls from Recycled Papers to Feed Cats Responsibly

Illegal and unhelpful sign put up by Hong Kah Town Council

Such signboard is offensive to residents who volunteer themselves to manage the cats in the neighbourhood with TnRM but who also feed cats responsibly.

Such signboard can result in harrassment of responsible cat feeders.

The sinister-looking black cat in this signboard only serves to increase the prejudice against cats and even encourage psychotic cat abusers into putting their hatred into action.

Please write to the GM of Hong Kah Town Council, Ms Christina Goh, at christinagoh@hktc.org.sg to remove this signboard and put up Responsible Feeding posters from either the CWS or the SPCA.
3-Step Responsible Feeding
Responsible Feeding Brochure (Front)
Responsible Feeding Brochure (Back)

Today Online 18 Nov 05
No strays = social responsibility
Letter from Geraldine Soh Geok Lian

During a visit to the Social Responsibility Carnival organised by the Tampines Town Council on Nov 12, I was taken a back by two posters.
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There was a gigantic blue check mark on a poster bearing the words "An Estate Where There Is No Strays" (picture), while a "Feeding Stray Cat" poster, which featured a sterilised stray cat eating neatly off a newspaper, was marked with a huge red cross.

Maintaining an estate devoid of cats does not equate with social responsibility. Neither is feeding strays socially irresponsible.

As a country with first-world infrastructure, the Town Council's aim of a stray-less Tampines shows Singapore's backward mentality. The anti-cat stance harks back to medieval Europe's prosecution of cats, which were branded as heretical due to their role in "pagan" worship.

In the same period that the church sponsored the Grand Inquisition, cats were tortured. Europe's cat population shrank to less than 10 per cent of its former numbers.

Ironically, the Black Death brought a brief respite to such persecution in the 14th century. Cats rapidly multiplied and attacked the plentiful food supply: the plague-carrying rats. There is evidence that the plague (that claimed two-thirds of Europe's population) ended partly due to the rise in the number of cats.

Similarly, after the Agri-Veterinary Authority cancelled the Stray Cat Rehabilitation Scheme in 2003 and culled more cats, a rat extermination drive was launched later that year. More taxpayers' money was spent as a result.

Studies have shown the benefits of interaction with animals and how children exposed to pets develop tolerance, compassion and social responsibility. Unfortunately, the carnival instilled negative values in our children: the intolerance of other living beings in our community and the acceptability of a sterile humans-only Singapore.

Lest we forget, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong stated during his walkabout in Kim Keat that it is not illegal to feed stray cats, but it must be done responsibly.

Unless Singaporeans are proud of being a sterile nation, attitudes such as those held by the Tampines Town Council must change.

http://catwelfare.blogspot.com/search?q=cat+feeding+bylaw

Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Bylaws

...The town council wrote back to tell me where I can get the bylaws, but I already got hold of a copy. They said that they actually do not have a problem with them feeding, but want the person to do it responsibly. I have no problem with them and have spoken to the feeder and asked him to change his feeding spot. He agreed that perhaps feeding next to a childcare centre was not the smartest move.

I do not however like the fact that they came up basically to say that stray cat feeding is illegal under the bylaws. I have looked through the bylaws and don't see anything to suggest that at all.

posted by Dawn @ 2:43 PM

http://catwelfare.blogspot.com/2005/08/feeding.html

We notice that when signs go up to say to stop feeding, the converse happens. The responsible feeders stop and the irresponsible ones don't want to get caught, so they become what we call '...ghost feeders' - ie they throw food surreptitiously in corners, from windows, and scuttle off before they're caught.


From: Nanyang Main
Subject: Re: Irresponsible poster at blk 811,Jur west st 81
cc: "PR Main"
Date: Tuesday, 12 October, 2010

Thank you very much for your feedbacks.

We wish to explain the signage was not put up recently. It was put up at the corner of the void deck of Block 811 Jurong West St 81 ten years ago at the request of the residents. We have removed the signage.

Regards,

LAI POH WAH
PROPERTY MANAGER
HONG KAH TOWN COUNCIL ( NANYANG )

Responsible Feeding poster in Simei

New "Responsible Cat Feeding" Poster - Please save and email t to your town council's property officer to put into notice boards

SPCA's Responsible Feeding Poster

Write to your town council and ask the General Manager (GM) to put this poster in your block's notice board. cc. your email to enquiries@spca.org.sg for the GM to request for original copies of the poster.

Some town council officers blame cat feeders for "breeding" mosquitoes

This plastic bag is a human litter that is collecting rain water.

Responsible feeding should include ensuring that water in bowls is fresh and not be allowed to stagnate.

The solution is to educate feeders.

Removing community cats to AVA for "assistance" is not going to eradicate irresponsible feeding and prevent "new" cats to fill the "vacuum."

Email these Responsible Feeding posters to your town council and request that they put these in the notice boards

CWS' Responsible Feeding flyers (can be downloaded to educate feeders)

PM Goh: " it was not illegal but it must be done responsibly"

The Straits Times, 21-08-2004, VOICES
Postcards to a PM;The Straits Times asked readers for their thoughts on the Goh years - and this is what some had to say

"ONCE, WHEN A LADY asked PM Goh during his Kim Keat walkabout about whether it was illegal to feed stray cats, he wisely replied that it was not illegal but it must be done responsibly. On behalf of all cats in Singapore, I want to say 'Thank you very much."
- Mabel Koh, Pasir Ris

Cat food in Origami Boxes

Instead of scattering dry cat food on the ground, put them in paper boxes made "origami" style.

The food do not scatter and leftovers are easy to dispose of.

The boxes also put a certain "class" to feeding and perhaps less of an eye-sore.

Here's websites on how to create origami boxes:

1) http://www.wackykids.org/origami_box.htm

2)

Origami Boxes Figure A Figure B Figure C

Materials:

1 square piece of paper

1. Fold paper in half in a left/right direction. Then open it up flat again and fold it in half from the top/bottom direction.
2. Fold paper in half on the diagonals and open it up flat again.
3. Fold the corners of paper to the middle (figure A).
4. Take this smaller square that you have just created and fold the left and right sides in half toward the middle.
5. Open those side flaps up and now fold the top/bottom sides in half toward the middle (figure B).
6. Open those flaps up, then take hold of the tips of the top and bottom triangular flaps and pull them out.
7. Fold the sides of the shape to the middle and pull them up into a 90-degree position. These will make the sides of the box (figure C).
8. Bring up the top and bottom sides of the box also into a 90-degree position, pushing the tipped flaps up and over into the bottom of the box.

Tip: To make a top for the box, all you have to do is make another box just slightly larger than the first one.

Products: This craft will work with any kind of paper, but some really beautiful papers for this project can be found at Asian specialty stores.

"Do Not Feed Whole Fish" Flyers - print these to educate ignorant feeders

Environmental-conscious Responsible Feeding of Community Cats

Download this brochure : http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2071/1539355622_59d2820871_o.jpg

Irresponsible owner or irresponsible feeder?

This cat was seen outside a flat on the second storey of a block of HDB flats. There were a bowl of water and a bowl of dry food.
Is this a home cat allowed to roam freely or a downstairs cat lured upstairs to be fed.
Either reason spells trouble for the cat.
Not everyone likes cat. All the town council needs is just one complaint about this cat and the pest controller will be in business!
What if the owners of the flat decide to sell off the flat and move away. This cat could be left behind and it won't know that it is not supposed to go upstairs anymore. The next lot of human beings who move into this flat may not be cat lovers. Again just one phone call to the town council and this cat is "dead meat".

So if you do really care about cats,
Keep your home cats indoor
Keep the community cats downstairs and feed them in discrete areas such as the back of the void deck. Always clear away any leftover.
The lives of the cats depend on our sense of responsibility.