As Battersea celebrates its 140th anniversary of serving to cats, the charity has these days introduced a brand new collaboration that can considerably support the welfare of thousands and thousands of cats international.
Global-renowned charity World Cat Care (iCatCare) has advanced the Cat Pleasant Homing (CFH) programme, which can intention to support the welfare of cats around the globe via moving present approaches to rehoming within the sector against a extra proactive and strategic method of running, and in flip support cat inhabitants control on a long-term, international scale.
The programme, funded via a three-year grant from Battersea, comprises plans to strengthen the rescue sector to transform extra skilled and sustainable, ship veterinary coaching round key topics together with neutering and refuge medication, and convey in combination professionals and organisations to take on cat inhabitants control in combination extra successfully.
Vicky Halls, Head of Unowned Cats at World Cat Care, stated:
“These days, now we have now not one disaster however a great hurricane of demanding situations, together with the have an effect on of an international pandemic and the cost-of-living disaster, impacting significantly on an already overstretched sector. Now could be the time for us to evolve, forestall the endless cycle of reactivity and make a transformation for cat welfare. Cat Pleasant Homing, an iCatCare initiative, represents a shift to a extra proactive method of running that won’t most effective take on the issue at a inhabitants degree, but additionally assist extra unowned puppy cats to succeed in the end result that most nearly fits their wishes.”
Battersea’s longstanding challenge to be ‘right here for each canine and cat’ does now not most effective observe to the animals at its centres. During the charity’s International Programmes technique, Battersea works with organisations throughout the United Kingdom and the world over to assist support animal welfare on an international scale. As a part of this paintings, remaining 12 months Battersea awarded twenty grants to rescues and different organisations throughout six international locations, reaping benefits nearly 350,000 canines and cats.
Roxanne Nazir, Head of Grants and Programmes at Battersea, stated;
“At Battersea we consider it’s our duty to assist now not most effective the animals which might be delivered to our centres short of our care, however to assist thousands and thousands extra via running with organisations like iCatCare against a shared function of making improvements to the lives of canines and cats around the globe. We’re proud to strengthen such an formidable programme and as we mark our 140th anniversary of serving to cats, there couldn’t be a greater time to announce this collaboration. We can’t wait to peer the have an effect on this paintings starts to have on tom cat welfare and the rehoming sector over the following 3 years and past.”
For more info about iCatCare’s Cat Pleasant Homing Programme, discuss with https://icatcare.org/unowned-cats/cat-friendly-homing/. To determine extra details about Battersea’s International Programmes paintings, discuss with the Battersea site.