(Perth, Australia) URGENT Help stop the cat slaughter

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Hi All,

 

This is an urgent appeal and your help will save thousands of lives.

Please help us save the lives of thousands of beautiful

kittens and cats in Perth, Western Australia.

Last year approximately 7,000 cats and kittens were euthanased by one

welfare society

in Perth. This carnage has to stop and money is needed for sterilisation and

education

programs.

 

1. The Problem

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In Perth, the capital city of Western Australia (population just over a

million people),

there are only three organisations taking in stray cats and kittens. The

RSPCA and the APS (Animal Protection Society) only take in a few hundred

cats and kittens and they are " no kill " shelters.

The Cat Welfare Society (locally known as the Cat Haven) in Perth is the

only remaining shelter to take in unwanted cats and kittens. The Cat Haven

is not a " no kill " shelter.

Sometimes the Cat Haven has room for kittens and cats and sometimes it does

not.

When the Cat Haven is full, cats and kittens taken there are euthanased

because of limited facilities.

Last year the Cat Welfare Society (Cat Haven) euthanased approximately 7000

cats and kittens.

 

 

2. How do we stop the slaughter - A positive result

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The Cat Sterilisation Society of WA Inc has very limited funding yet

everyone agrees

sterilisation/desexing is the most important issue regarding pet cats.

 

The Cat Sterilisation Society of WA Inc educates the public and SUBSIDISES

THE

STERILISATION OF CATS through a scheme with participating vets.

The desexing fees are subsidised for low income earners. Being able to take

cats

to a local vet near their home for a subsidised fee is more likely to

encourage

people on low incomes to desex their pet cats.

 

Sending a donation to the Cat Sterilisation Society of WA Inc will directly

influence

next years figures of Cat deaths through euthanasia of unwanted kittens and

cats

because the money donated goes STRAIGHT towards sterilising cats.

 

The Cat Sterilisation Society of WA Inc also sends submissions to

Governernment Agencies

when inhumane or impractical regulations are promoted by agencies or

politicians.

 

The Society also urgently needs $3000 Australian to produce a professional

educational video to be played in shopping centres and other venues

to help educate the public about the need to desex cats, identification of

cats

and confinement of cats indoors at night. This video will be a positive and

friendly video which may also help children understand the importance of pet

ownership.

 

The killing of thousands of helpless kittens and cats in Perth every year

seems to

have become habitual although numbers of euthanased cats have declined over

several years.

Cherry Leonard, President of the Cat Sterilisation Society of WA Inc. has a

vision which I share of a compassionate society where all pet cats are

valued and sterilised/desexed and the annual cat slaughter/euthanasia

figures in Perth are significantly reduced.

 

Please help us save the cats by donating to the Cat Sterilisation Society of

Western

Australia Inc.

 

Donations can be sent to The Cat Sterilisation Society of Western Australia

Inc,

P.O. Box 28, Kelmscott, Western Australia 6991

 

To date, the Cat Sterilisation Society of WA Inc has helped sterilise/desex

over 30,000 cats.

 

If you live in Australia, you can donate through your internet banking

option (Westpac provides an option to pay anyone through the internet as

long as you have the bank details).

Account number to donate to for the Cat Sterilisation Society of Western

Australia Inc

is (Bank,State,Branch) BSB 306-079 Account number 415568-8

 

Here is the web page of the Cat Sterilisation Society of WA Inc (it is being

updated)

 

http://www.green.net.au/csswa