We need help from you, our friends and volunteers, to help with the stray cat population.
The industrial area where we feed our strays have plenty of stray cats, and while we try to help with the sterilisation of cats, we can only trap about 12 cats a month due to our limited resources.
While it’s better than doing nothing, more hands will be helpful!
Female cats are capable of having many kittens in a year, and they become sexually mature from just four months old. Each litter has about five kittens, and that’ll multiply really quickly.
Therefore, sterilisation is the only humane way of controlling the number of strays.
Our volunteers have been trapping cats and getting them sterilised for free at designated vets who have kindly offered such services in partnership with a Cat Welfare Society supported programme.
Although the sterilization is free, trapping, transport, post-op boarding and other medical costs will have to be covered by us. To save on costs, our regular volunteers would try do their own trapping which would take many hours at a time, and we aren't successful all the time. And to help us save on boarding, sometimes the volunteers have no choice but to release the cats immediately after sterilization without sufficient time to observe the kitties' recovery.
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| Setting up the cat traps |
To put things in perspective, a 2-night boarding would typically cost around $250 a month for 12 cats. Transport to the vet would cost another $150 or so in a month, Several trips are needed as trapping is done each week. All in, it costs about $400 to sterilize 12 cats assuming no other medical costs. It's quite a substantial amount of money each month, and on top of that we have vet bills and boarding expenses to pay for our rescues.
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| Trapping cats is a waiting game |
With this post, we hope that more kind souls can step forward to help! We need drivers on weekdays to pick up and release the cats, and sponsors for short-term boarding. To reach us, please email hopedogrescue@singnet.com.sg.
Written by: Felicia Tan
