Culling stray cats not the way: Khaw
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NATIONAL Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan on Friday weighed in on the long-standing war between people bothered by stray cats and those who love them and seek to protect them.
His stand: Culling of cats in HDB estates is not the way to go.
He wrote on his blog, Housing Matters, that he has asked the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) to review its practice of culling stray cats.
He has also roped in his Minister of State Tan Chuan-Jin to work with the AVA, animal welfare groups and residents to 'forge a compassionate and mature approach to this problem'.
Last year, about 5,100 stray cats were put down. The year before, the figure was 5,400 and in 2008, it was 6,800.
The minister wrote the post following a Meet-the-People session, during which a resident cried to him about her pet cat, which she said had been picked up by the AVA and could be culled.
-- ST
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good... there has to be some middle ground..
people should stop feeding the cats too...
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Yeah, people who feed the cats expect them to clean up after themselves. In the end, you see food lying everywhere around the void deck, because everybody thought and think already.
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let nature solve its own problem.
fine people who feed cats.
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It's only humane to feed stray animals but these feeders should exercise better responsibility of cleanliness.
To really control the population, owners have to sterilize their pets. There shd be laws on this in place. AVA is also trying its best to sterilize them. Those cats with the tips of their ears cut means they have been sterilized.
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Send the cats to JB.
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Sterilise the cats. My house downstairs got one pregnant cat.
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Originally posted by charlize:
Send the cats to JB.
Go buy house in JB if you cannot afford Singapore ones. -
I think muslims cannot keep dog so they feed stray cats.
I always see malays feeding stray cats food.
Cos dogs unclean to Muslims.
Fine those malays.
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Open a 猫肉店
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Originally posted by charlize:
Send the cats to JB.
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Originally posted by βÎτά:
Send Mr Khaw to JB.
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Finally, a more humane approach.
We humans are not the only living creatures in this world.
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we cull crows...cats and dogs...
SPCA has a greater agenda and responsibility as the only defender of animals....this much they can do....
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Originally posted by MissZ:
Finally, a more humane approach.
We humans are not the only living creatures in this world.
I totally agree with MissZ. And to add, we human beings are not the first to come into existence on this planet and we do not deserve to lord it over the other living animals when human beings behave far worst than animals at times.
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Originally posted by charlize:
Send the cats to JB.