Relaxed Day at the Cat Shelter

Finally had some time to help out at the cat shelter today.

People just keep sending cats and kittens in, some even crazy enough to think that the perfect life for a cat is in a 2' metal cage with food and water supplied for its remaining years. Imagine this: one moment you are prancing happily along the beach, enjoying the odd Ikan Kuning tossed your way and suddenly, someone picked you up by the scruff of your neck, stuffed you into a dark container and transported you to an airconditioned cell while serving you mashed premium food and filtered water everyday. You stay crouched at a corner for days, whatever happened to the fish bones and the cool seabreeze?

I can't see why a little island off the coast of Singapore cannot be a better place than a metal cage.

It is unfortunate that the adults on the island are regularly rounded up to be brought to the mainland to be put to sleep. With a proper sterilising program put in place, and understanding from the authorities, these cats and kittens will have much better lives there. I wouldn't worry about the cats going extinct on that little island even with active sterilisation - some residents are bound to hoard a breeding female or two for themselves. Especially when this feline group seems to produce a really pretty Siamese for every 10 midnight-black kittens.

We still have a long way to go, I just hope we have enough passionate people to go the mile.