The Straits Times and The New Paper gave valuable coverage to animal welfare groups in Singapore recently. The Cat Welfare Society was mentioned in both articles, featuring our President Fareena and our CWS Mediator Michelle respectively!
About The Campaign
Where did that cute puppy in the window come from? 98% of puppies in Singapore's pet stores are from puppy mills*, where breeding dogs suffer a cruel fate that’s arguably worse than death. These breeding dogs live in very poor conditions where overcrowding, poor sanitation, and contagious diseases are the order of the day. Their only purpose is to reproduce and once they are unable to do so, they are thrown out and left to fend for themselves. *Source: http://travel.cnn.com/singapore/puppy-mills-pet-store-337803
Policies are as good as its perceived fairness and integrity.
Policies however are often made with very practical concerns in mind – social order and enforceability. As such, advocacy for change must focus not only on why policies should be changed but how they can be changed to be fairer, more inclusive while still upholding social order and enforceability.
Part of a talk by CWS, together with SPCA and Vegetarian Society of Singapore, on the intelligence and emotions of animals that was aired at the South & West Asia Vegetarian Congress, held in Bangalore on 30 Oct-1 Nov…
CNA | Feb 17, 2013
Spike in abandoned pets during year-end festive season
Tan Qiuyi
SINGAPORE: The festive season is well over, but animal welfare volunteers are still dealing with the aftermath of “pet spring-cleaning”.
The number of abandoned pets saw its usual spike over the year-end period. Activists say the yearly numbers are not coming down.
150 cats were abandoned in three months, from November 2012 to January 2013. These were just cases that were reported to the Cat Welfare Society, so the real numbers are likely to be higher.
MyPaper | Sep 9, 2013
Few hauled up in animal abuse cases
Samantha Boh
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We spayed a record of 210 cats last year. Help us spay even more cats this year!
We are setting ourselves the target of 300 cats this year to help even more community cats!
Donate to CWS for Spay Day 2010 at
Bank: DBS Current Account
Account number: 065 – 013507 – 8
Bank Code: 7171
Branch Code: 065
with an email to [email protected] with the title “Donation to Spay Day 2010” and the following infomation:
Name of donor:
Amount donated:
Transacting bank:
Transaction number:
Please note with immediate effect the changes to our sterilisation reimbursement policy.
Caregivers who are members of CWS will be reimbursed $20 per cat sterilised and $30 for the 5th cat onwards for receipts dated in the same month. Reimbursements are capped at $500 per person per month.
With these changes in place, we will be accepting sterilisation reimbursement claims in the new form format. You can download the new form here.
The Special Appeals page is to help caregivers gain more support for the care of community cats. As many donors have asked for better accountability, from 1 Sep 2010, all donations for Special Appeals will be channelled through CWS and disbursed to cargivers accordingly to ensure veracity of appeals and transparency of donations of funds.
