Ivan:
Li Tin just flagged this poster to the committee.
This poster is found at the lift or mailbox areas of many blocks under the West Coast TC. The wording appears to suggest that feeding cats is illegal. Feeding is actually not illegal but littering is.
Given the misconception the poster might give to non cat lovers or the [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 31, 2008
Feeding Strays Posted by Town Council
July 31, 2008
CWS Membership Cards Coming To You This August!
Li Tin:
Thank you everyone who have signed up for CWS membership programme. The cards are ready and will be sent out in August!
Understand that many of you are eager to receive the membership cards which is overdue, a million apologies for that!
But not to worry, we will be mailing out the cards by end August [...]
July 30, 2008
Spay Day 2008 will be in October
Ivan:
For everyone who are concerned about when the next Spay Day will be, it will be held on a weekday in October. This was decided during our last meeting. The details will be revealed once the TNRM Subcommittee & Executive Committee meet to discuss this further.
July 30, 2008
Dedicated Caregiver Award Winners
Ivan:
It is CWS’s pleasure to announce to everyone that we are giving out five Dedicated Caregiver Awards. The receipients of these awards were nominated by other caregivers and CWS. The award winners are from various parts of Singapore.
These five individuals were selected because of their hard work sterilising community cats over many years and their constant efforts working with their respective [...]
July 30, 2008
List of Licensed Pet Shops and their Grades
Ivan:
I just found this regularly updated and helpful AVA’s weblink that reflects the licensed pet shops in Singapore and their grading (as done by AVA).
July 28, 2008
Catsnip Email
Ivan:
I just got a feedback from a caregiver that our Catsnip Email Volunteer has not wrote back to her. CWS has received similar feedbacks a few weeks back. Wiggie, our Catsnip Email/Hotline Volunteer and part-time Operations Manager is usually very quick in her replies. And so we did a check on our email system and found that catsnip@catwelfare.org wasn’t working [...]
July 28, 2008
Shifting to 2nd gear for me, Chinese Delegates & Membership
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 [...]
July 28, 2008
More Meeting Updates..
Ivan:
Thanks LiTin for the update and the photo showing us hard at work till 2300hrs :P
Organisational Changes
Aside from the issues that LiTin has mentioned, there are some changes in our executive committee. Firstly, Clodya Kennedy, one of our new committee member has just stepped down from her position due to personal reasons. CWS thank her for her time in the past few [...]
July 28, 2008
Meetings!
Li Tin:
A month passed by really quickly, and we have had yet another meeting last night at the Orchard Road area. Many issues were discussed, and phew! There’s still a lot of work to do! Apart from many cheques to sign, Michelle also had to decide what to do with all the submissions for [...]
July 26, 2008
Cats in bathroom case update
Ivan:
Yesterday I did a home visit for the cats in bathroom case that Dawn has blogged about before. The remaining 8 cats (owner started with 14 cats in 3 cages in her master bedroom’s bathroom, 3 has since died) are doing well but the owner has no intent of adopting out any more cats, which [...]
