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Stray Cat Neutering

A few months after the organisation was set up it embarked on a major project, namely cat neutering. After dicussions with a German Animal Welfare organisation, it agreed to fund a limited number of neutering vouchers per month. The program took off, spreading in a few weeks to every part of the island. As more and more cat carers were made aware that help was being offered to neuter their colonies, the requests for help increased so much that unfortunately some requests had to be turned down due to the limited resources available.

Hungry and undernourished cat colony

To date, over 3,000 neutering vouchers have been issued. This has been achieved with the help of two other organisations, who, after vetting and approving the work SASG was carrying out, kindly offered to give assistance towards meeting the ever inceasing pleas for help. However, in spite of this, the increasing requests cannot always be met.

In some instances, the carer of the colony needs more than vouchers to get the colony neutered. Some have no experience in catching the feral cats; others have no means of transport to take their cats to the vets. SASG tries to encourage people from the same area to work together. Giving each other a hand makes the job much lighter. A number of traps are available to facilitate the catching of the feral cats. However the organisation needs to invest in more traps, as very often people who wish to neuter their colonies have to wait several weeks before a trap can be made available to them.

Stray cats that have undergone a neutering intervention require a few days to recover, especially in the case of female cats. SASG provides after-care facilities for those who need it. Cats are cared for at our premises for a few days and then handed back to their carer to be released back into their colony.

A few of our member friends have transported cats to and from the vets’ for those who are unable to transport the cats themselves. More volunteers are needed for this aspect of cat neutering.

More and more people are now aware that the answer to control the stray cat population is by neutering. What the organisation has achieved so far is only the beginning. We need to strive together to bring the situation under control.

In 2005 we neutered 295 female cats and 171 male cats.

In 2006 we neutered 146 female cats and 81 male cats.

With your help we could do more

Please do not look away, your help is needed.