Our main boarding area, as you know, is Angels Pet Shop, where the pens are now fully occupied, cared for by one person that is Aswat. Our secondary boarding space is my own home, where I am the caregiver. Being the only two caregivers for our rescues, our time, space and energy is limited and we can only manage to care for as long as our resources will hold out.
While we may love cats of all ages, adopters don't. Cruel fact of the market is that adopters don't like older kittens. Even those whom are nursed to health and socialised by us. Those of us who like them form the minority niche market.
So, the cats get older, and it is getting exponentially harder for us each day to re-home them.
This week, we are facing the problem with our previously young kittens who are now all about 10-12 weeks old already, kittens like Misty, Coffee, Macy, Totty and Layla (see right sidebar on their stories). In times like these, we start our problem-solving routine by working from the best-case solution to the last resort plans. Last resorts include sending the cats to SPCA, or releasing them into urban wildlife as strays which we manage. When all options are exhausted, we turn to the last resorts. In our short history, we have used both options before, when we simply can no longer provide the animals with boarding resources.
There are only so many homes available for kittens. Older ones don't stand a chance. Please help control the cat population in Singapore by getting involved in sterilisation work. Wildlife needs conservation, for some species, because they are endangered, for others, because the ecological system is imbalanced due to human interference. Cats are a mainstay of our urban wildlife in Singapore. we have to wake up and realise that. Plant a tree, sterilise a cat - one and the same in doing your part for the environment.
