JoTong’s Latest Rescue Project And Reflections

This is JoTong’s story:

These past few weeks I have been helping a feeder from my taman to catch and neuter cats abandoned by a tenant who moved out last month. According to the feeder, tha tenant just released the cats out from her compound. As to date, we have caught 4 and sent for neutering already. So irresponsible of that tenant. 

The neutering costs are borne by this feeder (luckily) as she takes care of the cats after the surgery before releasing them back to the street. So she only pays for neutering and I helped to send to clinic under my name as I got rescuer rate. The tenant abandoned a total of 7 cats.

Then yesterday I rescued a Persian lookalike cat from nearby my taman when I was buying lunch. Heavy flu and cough. Poor thing. The cat even has a collar. Yesterday I spent 30 minutes with this Persian cat and he is super manja. I hope I can get an interested neighbour to adopt him. 

Sadly, there will always been such owners. They will abandon their pets when they move out.

There are all kinds of humans in this world and that’s not going to change.

I was also recently approached by a gardener who said someone’s mother-cat had delivered 5 kittens in an unoccupied house. Now, the next-door neighbour of that unoccupied house is complaining about the cat family and insists that the gardener gets rid of them. The gardener asked if I could take in the family and I explained to him that I simply cannot take in anymore cats. According to him, someone from that neighbourhood had offered to help him spay the mother-cat. So I told him to get that done first.

The gardener had also called a local shelter if they would accept the family but he could not afford the surrender fees. The kittens have already weaned off milk and are running around. He said his last ditch effort would be to call the council to which I pleaded with him not to. He was unaware of what local councils would do to captured animals. I told him again and again not to do it.

He also told me that he sees many kind hearted hawkers feeding cats at a coffee shop near where he lives, but while there are kind people, there are also those who would come to scold the hawkers for feeding. I told him to consider taking the cat family back to his home and advised him to get the whole family neutered when the kittens are of age. But for now, he must get the mother spayed first. Another alternative for him would be to track down the mother-cat’s owner and approach the owner to take back the whole cat family.

The world isn’t going to change, folks. People are not going to change either. There will be a minority number of sympathisers and a majority number of unfriendly people.

It will always be an uphill battle.

Hence, the work to help street animals must go on and it won’t get any easier. It simply has to just go on.

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