How they started:
July 1999, having seen news regarding a
report of animal cruelty towards innocent animals that occurs daily throughout
Singapore. A few friends got together and decided to help other harmless stray cats
and kittens that live amongst us whom doesn’t have a caretaker.
They felt that having a organizations would
give them a more effective and stronger voice for the cats that were being ill
treated when they don’t deserve to be treated that way.
Their Mission:
“Saving lives through sterilization”
Before the organization came into
operation, records showed that 13, 000 community cats were put down every year,
which equates to 35 cat killed daily. To solve it, they had to find the root of
the cause. That boiled down to too many cats being born.
In ten years, it was proven that
sterilizing community cats and halving their population growth proved to be a
solution that is beneficial.
In that ten years sterilizing community
cats became the main focus of the organization on top of other movement and
campaigns to educate neighbors and fellow residents as well as to help their
community resolve various issues related to community cat and pet cats.
About Them:
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A non-profit organization run
entirely by volunteers
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To save lives through
sterilization, in turn controlling the
population
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Trap-Neuter-Release-Manage
(TNRM) programs are set up to provide free
sterilization for community cats in HDB estates in Singapore
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Serves to facilitate
caregivers, Town Councils and management committees in problem solving and
complaint management.
Trap-Neuter-Release-Manage (TNRM)
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A humane alternative to
euthanasia for managing and reducing community cat populations.
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A method that relies on
sterilization of the cats so that they don’t breed.
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Begins with the trapping of
community cats using human traps.
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Captured cats are then taken to
the veterinary clinic to be sterilized.
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Following that, once the cats recover from surgery,
they are released back to the site of capture and managed back to the original
environment.
Sterilization:
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A surgical removal of part of
the reproductive organs (ovaries and uterus of female and testicles of males)
from an animal so that it can no longer reproduce.
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A safe and quick procedure that
is performed by a veterinarian.
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During the process, the cat is
under anesthesia the entire time, so no pain would be felt.
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It takes a mere 5-15 minutes
for the whole procedure to be complete.
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A tipped ear that is done
during the sterilizing procedure, a universally recognized way of marking a
sterilized cat.
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Costs: Male [SGD 50-100] /
Female [SGD 80-150] / Female (Heat/Pregnant) [SGD 120 – 180]
