These are exciting times for cat welfare volunteers, supporters and activists. In the beginning, they started websites, then forums and they blogged. Now more than ever, they have organised themselves into a remarkably coherent voice for the common community cat in our communal void decks and on our collective streets.

I remember that singular moment when my flame for cat welfare was fanned into burning scorching action. That was 5 years ago when sad old Maneki walked into my life. Back then, it was tough to get started. Cat Welfare Society helped by providing starter packets of information but because there were never enough people to start a TNRM group in this area, it didn’t make sense for CWS to come down to conduct workshops or to make contact with the town council.

I had to find my own way, attend a TNRM workshop in NLB, loan a couple of traps, make myself useful to the town council officer and just get on with it.

Blogs and bloggers certainly helped along the way but cold hard information was tough to come by to paint a coherent picture of how we arrived at the present milestones in cat welfare, who are our minor and major movers in government and civil society and what are the common goals for the future.

It is truly only after Facebook and the flowering connections it proffered that this organically emerging animal welfare ecosystem in Singapore is crystallising in a way that I hope will inspire progressive thinking and greater action in Singaporeans for our Singaporean cats. Facebook connects people, their human faces and their stories on a level that surpasses their carefully crafted words that make up websites, blogs and forums. This has done more to move bodies of knowledge around at great speeds without saying any much more than people are already doing.

So if you haven’t found your way onto the bandwagon, maybe this is the time.

If you want to join the revolution that is happening online, here is a list of Facebook groups that you can hook up with for starters. Perhaps by chance or design, we might become mutual online friends and fans and I look forward to that.

Organisations

Cat Welfare Society Page / Group

SPCA Singapore

Issues

Appeal to the AVA to Stop the Free Loan of Cat Traps

Cats in flats...

Support Pet Shops that Do Not Sell Pets

Stop Culling and Revive Stray Cats Rehabilitation Scheme in Singapore

STOP the culling of stray cats!

Support Groups

Cat-CareGivers' Support Group

Cat Fosterers (Singapore)

TnRM (Singapore and Malaysia)

Singapore Adoption Group

Student Groups

Cats Management Network

SMU Paw

NUS PEACE! People Ending Animal Cruelty and Exploitation

NUS Cat Cafe

Other Groups

Cat Absolut

Paw Pledge

MettaCats

Blessing Home

General

Cat Lovers Singapore

Singapore Community Cats

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