In memory of Michael Houghtby

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veron November 16, 2011 0Comments 218Views 0Likes

A loving & faithful husband, awesome father and animal-lover.

Working with the Cat Welfare Society, we often have the honour of meeting some really wonderful people. Katherine and Mike are two such good souls we got to know through Facebook who have been supporting the Cat Welfare Society since. Veron had a chance to meet Mike in person earlier this year when he donated cat supplies from the States. And again recently at our adoption drive at NEX.

It was with shock that we learnt that he passed away on 5 November 2011.

Our deepest condolences to Katherine and the rest of the Houghtby family. We are deeply grateful that Katherine has asked Mike’s colleagues and work partners at APL/NOL to donate to the Cat Welfare Society in memory of him.

Their donation has helped us kickstart Project 500.

His loving spirit lives on.

Niko the Houghtby family cat

Relocation is Abandonment!

Joanne_CWS June 4, 2015

Recently, a Town Council officer from a Town Council we were generally working closely with has been pressuring volunteers to relocate cats while not providing full information that will help resolve the case.

She had also boasted that it was easy to trap and release cats to other areas.

Update on MUIS case

ivanong December 8, 2008

Ivan:

Regarding the earlier post about MUIS’s stand on keeping and treating pets, Salina has written in to them. According to her, she decided to write to MUIS directly as a milder approach, rather than addressing them through the press as she felt it might create a fair bit of negative reactions.

On the same topic, the magazine that I mentioned yesterday has a section on religion and pets too (Pg 63). However, it did not touch on MUI’s stand: if a pet causes conflict in the family, it is permissible to kill it. CWS hopes this particular suggestion by MUIS can be changed as it conflicts with responsible pet ownership which is what all the local animal welfare groups are advocating.