Ref: http://animalcare.my/2013/05/27/something-from-singapore/
It’s been a long day today, of searching for reports, materials, facts and figures that will help in presenting our case to the local council and the authorities.
I was very fortunate that the Singapore Cat Welfare Society (CWS) has shared an abundance of very valuable and useful materials and information on their quest to get the people and their authorities to support TNR.
It hasn’t been easy for them, just as it would not be easy for us too. I’ve been asking for 3 years now, and it is still a “no”. But I am not giving up.
Here is what the President of CWS tells me:
One thing we found that turned the tide in Singapore is the formidable network of caregivers all around Spore so the govt knows it is not a small group of people doing TNRM but a big army out there. To build this network means not doing it with just core volunteers but to give subsidies for anyone who wants to do it.
So yes, we ARE giving subsidies to all who qualify, but do we have a big army out there?
If we do, how are we going to convince and assure the authorities that we (the big army out there) will do the TNRM or CNRM. We are not asking the authorities to even fund the project. We are only going to ask them to stop catching and killing, that’s all. We will provide the funds for neutering but we need YOU to form the “big army out there” who will do the hands-on catching and sending the animals for neutering (and ensuring that the animals are ear-notched, please).
Will you do it?
As I have said right from the start, we need a BIGGER voice, please.
We need a BIG ARMY out there!
Comments
2 responses to “Learning from those who are doing TNR”
One thing perhaps you might want to consider is to have a Chinese blog. I know . I would gladly volunteer to translate your blog post, but I cannot because after more than 40 years not actively using it at all, my Mandarin is reduced to reading, speaking but no longer writing.
BUT, I am sure there are many rescuers out there with these short-coiming: non-FB user, non-English speakers.
I know for sure in Taiping, for example, youngest sister told me so-and-so is feeding the cats near her market stall, so-and-so is taking of dogs … These people are not reached.
My purpose of responding here with my ideas, is to hope someone might see/read it and would do something about it, say, Taiping. Round up all the resuerers.
I am going to post this on my class FB to try to spread the news. My own FB is very dead, but I will do it as well.
And many of us can help to spread the news.