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The Marine Parade Town Council (MPTC) is in hot soup with cat lovers all over Singapore, after their heartless act of relocating two cats that were from the Marine Terrace estates to HabourFornt backfired. One of the cats had died, while the other has gone missing.

Now imagine staying in a tight squeeze in the two room HDB flat and sharing it with 94 cats! AVA has reported over the weekend they are investigating a case of 94 cats being house in a two room HDB unit in Fernvale Link. Most of the cats are found in less than satisfactory conditions, with some suffering from eye infections and some bruises, confirmed the Cat Welfare Society (CWS), which had rescued the cats togethter with some volunteers. The HDB unit itself were found to have mouldy ceilings, and videos showed the house only had a bed, two stools, and some plastic bags that were stacked against the wall in the living room of the flat. AVA said they had been informed of the incident, and are currently investigating. The rescue operations of the cat took 4 hours in total, and 17 of the cats were sent to Mount Pleasant Pet Clinic for further treatments. According to reports, the person who looked after the cat is now unable to provide for the cats anymore.

AVA has acknowledged that they hired contractors to remove cats, but only those who reportedly enters residents homes. This recent issue came to light when a Cat Welfare Society (CWS) mediator said that he had approached a man seen with a net and carrier to catch a cat that allegedly went into a residents house. The man siad he had been engaged by the AVA to remove the cat, and to bring the cat to AVA, or he would not be paid for the job. However, the cat was not found in the resident's house, and the mediator expressed his misgivings that the man, and any other cat catchers, would just take any cats in the neighbourhood and deliver it to AVA to receive his pay. This raises the question of the safety of the cats. AVA clarified that they will close the loop by checking with the person who provided the feedback to check if the contractor was present, and if the correct animal was removed. They also reiterated that all cats caught will be taken care of by their officers daily at the AVA pound, and if those cats are found to pets, they will try to reunite the cats with their owners.

Read in the news today that the Cat Welfare Society (CWS) president, Ms Thenuga Vijakumar, has made overturning the ban on cats in HDB flats as one of her long term goals. This ban on cats has been in place since HDB's inception in 1960. Some progress has been made - a pilot project for residents in Chong Pang to keep their feline companions in their flats was launched in 2012. Talks on funding to extend the scheme to two more precincts are ongoing. Once again, the debate between cats and dogs will be opened up. Most will ask why, if dogs are allowed in HDB cats, then cats are not allowed. After all, there are already thousands of cats living in HDB flats. Thus, by legitimising their ownership, this will allow for better education and enforcement against errant owners.

According to a cat welfare Facebook group Yishun 326 Tabby Cat, 2 more cats have been found murdered: one with its throat slit and the other with its upper body left mangled and blood soaked. The badly mangled cat was found lying in the middle of a park road behind Khoo Teck Puat Hospital.

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These 7 cats are still in the pound on death row. The cats can't be saved without any adopter or foster help to buy time for rehoming.

Another community cat was found with severe chest trauma at 115A this week . This is the area where cats have been thrown down from height, and a suspect was caught and currently on probation . Reports of abuse continue to come in from the area with one dead cat recently. We strongly appeal to the community there to come forward , pm us or call AVA if you have any information. This is important for the authorities to pursue the cases further.

A single legged runner posted on his Facebook about a group of stray dogs near the park connector route towards Mandai. Warning that the dogs could pose harm to children or senior citizens, he called on people who spotted the dogs to make a report to AVA.

We have seen a few of our Aljunied crescent community cat at block 96-98 are injured. Yesterday, Makcik was feeding cats around there where this APEK came and kick one of the cat while eating. Makcik saw and shouted at him. He said " No feeding cat here. very dirty (makcik use plate ok) later cat berak(shit) everywhere. Makcik Replied " u dont eat la like that, you dont berak (shit) also lah! " Makcik wanna take his photo he show his butt and shake his butt to makcik and run. We suspected the old folks over there are making the cats injured/ We hope people in Aljunied keep a look out of these annoying people and shout or take a video and complain when you see they abuse them.