Category: Thoughts

I first got into the animal community only 16 years ago when I chanced upon Cow, Bunny and Pole as newborns being abandoned on the wet grass beside the road on my morning walk round the playground. I was so ignorant as I knew absolutely nothing about cats, their behaviour nor had I ever even…

This article was first published in April 2019 and again in January 2020. We are republishing it again as a gentle reminder to all applicants that our neutering and vaccination aid is prioritised for those who practise One-Street CNRM, with particular emphasis on the C=Care and M=Manage components. Our priority has always been to help…

The article: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tender-paws/202206/how-pet-owners-cross-the-line-become-animal-hoarders The purpose of sharing this article is for education. To all new pet owners and rescuers, please do not cross the line to become animal hoarders in your fervour to save and rescue. What is an animal hoarder? According to the article: Also known as “Noah’s Syndrome,” animal hoarding is defined by an…

The article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583418/ It says: An animal hoarder is defined as someone who has accumulated a large number of animals and who: 1) fails to provide minimal standards of nutrition, sanitation, and veterinary care; 2) fails to act on the deteriorating condition of the animals (including disease, starvation or death) and the environment (severe overcrowding, extremely…

In Cantonese it’s called the “ying-koi” mentality. The “entitlement mentality” – the backlash that we have to endure when we are no longer able to help someone whom we have been helping before due to (1) lack of funds, (2) changes in policies or (3) violation of policies on the part of the recipient (especially…

The article: https://www.themalaysianinsight.com/s/270167 An excerpt: The technology already exists for us to consume meat that does not cause animal suffering, or harm our health or the environment. “Clean meat”, grown from harvested stem cells, is now reaching a scale of production where it will soon be as affordable as animal-based meat. Producing meat in laboratories requires…

AnimalCare strongly encourages self-sufficiency and discourages over-dependence on our funds. The first line of our policy statement in neutering aid is this: Our primary objective is to help CNRM street animal caregivers who do small-scale rescue work or those who are just starting out. We urge those who are doing large-scale work to seek other sources to sustain…

Many animal lovers and organisations have been appealing to the authorities and lawmakers to enact kinder treatment of street animals. We’ve been doing it for more than 11 years too, but until animal lovers’ voice becomes the voice of the majority, only then can we hope that can happen. But meanwhile, we, as individuals and…

This is a gentle reminder to all applicants: We have been updating everyone here on certain cheating cases which we have discovered over the past few months. These included forging the vet’s signature as well as blaming the vet for not notching the ears of female animals. Both of which, after checking with the respective…

I’ve wanted to write this since last week, but simply could not find the time to do it. It was meant as a ranting (because I have not ranted for more than a year now), but thanks to a lovely email I received today, I will cut down on the ranting and focus on the…

This article was first published in April 2019. We are republishing it as a gentle reminder to all applicants that our neutering and vaccination aid is only for those who practise One-Street CNRM, with particular emphasis on the C=Care and M=Manage components. Here is the article again (with some additional remarks): We would like to…

….and really, that would be enough already. …and honesty.