Saturday 24 April 2010

[resolved!] Help CWS conduct door-to-door survey on stray cats on Sat 17 Apr

Town Council is ordering the culling of cats at Yishun. After appeals by residents, caregivers and CWS, they have taken a different tactic to send out a survey form (see picture above) to residents. As we all know, no one will bother to fill in such surveys unless they really do not like cats so the results can only be skewed! As such, we are organising a door to door survey of our own on Saturday, 17 Apr 5pm. If you can participate, please contact veron@catwelfare.org.

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Background: http://meowies.multiply.com/journal/item/1583/Killing_of_Yishun_St_71_cats_by_April_18

[Fri 16 Apr. Source: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Cat-Welfare-Society/99555921064, Fri 16 Apr.]

Update Sat 24 Apr
Good news, the cats will not be rounded up! Town Council were very reasonable and we can concentrate on solving the real problems such as "Ghost Feeders" who leave a mess after feeding. One officer also pointed out that they use their common sense when dealing with complains... giving as example a resident who wanted the cats removed because she claimed they attacked her two large dogs! I can guess who that was.... some will come up with the most ridiculous claims to get the cats removed!

Our survey showed that only about 5% want the cats removed. Those forms returned to RC showed a very different picture but AVA pointed out that our figures conform with the usual result of such surveys!

Thanks again to everyone for their support!

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