Is Explaining Enough?.

Some of us at Cat Welfare Society are getting pretty discouraged at the negative comments coming our way. Or maybe it’s just me.

The recent one came from an anonymous commenter on our unofficial blog.

I don’t think closing down CWS, just because we cannot afford to have someone answering phonecalls (even during working hours) because most of us have our day jobs to focus on, would help the situation of cats in Singapore at all. The fact that we are answering emails at all during work is a stretch, so all the more we hope people can just understand the predicament that we’re in.
Aren’t we all in this to care for the well-being of the little creatures we so love? Why the daggers?

It’s a steep climb uphill, trying to regain the trust from the caregivers, but we’ve just started our term since May - so we hope everyone would give us some time to get everything purring smoothly again.

But as an animal welfare group (we are not exactly an animal rescue group), our first priority is education, and in our case - on sterilising community cats to improve their behavior, their health, and as a long-term humane approach to controlling the population of cats on the streets.

We can’t go running to every injured cat, or to every hungry cat out there, that would be micromanaging… we can only hope to chip off bit by bit, the various misconceptions people have about cats on the streets, and hope to make a bigger impact as more people learn of the better ways to deal with specific situations (eg. people feeding cats upstairs and leading to cat poop in flower pots; owners letting pet cats roam).

We are still trying to get HDB to revise their rules on no-cats in flats policy. It’s still the biggest hurdle that we have yet to overcome, even after so long.

Oh well. On to answering more emails.