22 Aug, 2007 - Monday - Meet the MP session - Cats issue -

There has been an uproar in the westenders side of the Cat Welfare Society as of late. 2 women has been coming along, and catching strays in our neighbourhood, and causing some of us some major heartbreak.

Imagine you feed a cat responsibly for a few years, develop bonds with him/her, and then suddenly one day, he/she's gone. Catnapped by someone.

How would you feel?

When we did eventually made contact with the 2 women, they claimed they were sent by the town council. We checked, and they were indeed sent by the TC, based on a complaint by a resident.

Seems like this resident had a cat sit on his car for a while, and perhaps stank it or something. We offered to pass him some anti-cat spray, but he just decided it'll be better if there were no cats in the area, and so he complained.

And based on that 'loud' complaint, the tc has decided to renege on the previous agreement we had 2 years ago about not culling cats, and called the 2 women in.

And because its not just a few cats that have been seized, we're looking at maybe 8 missing cats or more, and we all know that there's a high chance they'll be put down after they're caught, we decided to meet up at a moment's notice, and meet the mp on monday.

Its the first time i've ever seen the mp, and the first time that i've ever waited outside the centre as well. We had to register and get numbers, like they were queueing up to see the doctor.

After waiting for a while, all 7 of us, from various races and ages went in. Karen presented her case to the mp, and basically spoke all the way to the end. The rest of us just nodded along, while i listened and looked.

From the beginning, i could tell that he thinks of this as a headache. The moment he said, "So.. Cats huh?", somehow i knew it isn't going to turn out very well. He did mention that in his personal opinion it would be better if there were less cats in Singapore, considering the incident he had with his neighbour's cat which came over to his place and poo-ed on his lawn. And how it stank.

Suffice to say he did promise to send a letter to the TC, and the next day i heard from Karen that they're going to have a meeting with her on friday at 10am. Lets just hope this works out fine for all of us.