Ivan:
With the completion of hectic July doing outreach projects, I am shifting to a slower 2nd gear with CWS’s taks for August as I am involved in the judging of the Animal Protectors Grant which requires several meetings in the month of August. Moreover, school starts for me so I need to hit the books and do my research.
CWS just got an email asking us to speak to some Chinese Animal Welfare Delegates. We were asked to speak to them about the larger and finer issues with regard to caring and controlling the population of community cats in Singapore (so that they can bring the understanding back to China and apply them).
LiTin and I are the assigned Mandarin liasions for CWS and we are discussing if we should take up this project up as it happens in August when I am busy with the grant judging and LiTin with merchandise/website projects. Having said that, it is likely that we take it up as the plight of the community cats in China is really very sad, especially with the street strays cleanup before the Olympics (cats were caught and left to die) and cats/dogs eating in Canton. The sharing of knowledge about implementing and managing TNR programmes in Singapore will help our Chinese partners with their plans to more effectively reduce the population of stray cats in China. This in turn will minimise the harm done that could possibly be done in the future when there are other street clean-up exercises and killings for cat meat (since there will be less cats on the streets due to effective TNRM programmes).
An elderly caregiver I met when I was in the Eastern part of Singapore just called me as I blogged this entry. He was asking about his membership status as he has not got a reply from us. CWS does not issue receipts but we give out membership cards to applicants for CWS membership. The cards are being made ready and will be sent out in August.