So please, before surrendering an animal to the SPCA:
-Have you tried to re-home the animal?
Ask friends and relatives if they can help. Or try taking out an ad in the newspaper classified section and putting notices on bulletin boards at supermarkets and vet clinics. Emails and posts on the Internet (on websites dealing with animal welfare for example) can be effective ways of finding the animal a new home. For contact details of animal organizations and websites, please go to http://www.spca.org.sg/links/links.asp
-Be aware that any animal surrendered to the SPCA may be put to sleep due to our limited resources.
If you are not comfortable with the idea that your surrendered animal may be euthanased within 24 hours of it being turned in, please find an alternative to surrendering it to the SPCA!
I feel that this Surrender Notice they made to public seems alittle contradicting.
Since young I have always make an impression that SPCA is a place where unwanted or abused pets would be cared for. from the first notice it was meant that way. - pleased.
now...what made me felt a little contradicting among the sentence were the following:
like have we tried to re-home. or are we aware that SPCA will put them to sleep. are my family members aware and changing minds within 24hrs.
i'm just wondering is the SPCA trying to tell me that only family pets will be entertained when send to SPCA. and those strayed pets would be ignored when bring to them. Or... on the good side to let us know that don't dump our pets. true enough that we shouldn't dump our pets. What about those strayed pets?
they do have a life too. don't they?
why do i have such a spur on writing SPCA stuff here? here comes why...
a fren's mum saw a few (not local) indians went around catching cats(dunnoe for what particular reasons.) so... my fren's mum went to release a cat found in those bags. ---- i felt what the ah neh-s were doing is considered as abusing pet animals. on a lighter note, my fren mum brought it back home. Cats and Dogs aren't meant to live under the same roof. forgot about something... my fren owns a dog. okay...so...they don't seems to get along? no...they didn't have the chance. the dog was pretty afraid of the cat. isn' t it suppose to be the other way round? oh nevermind. so the family felt that the dog don't seem comfortable with the cat due to many incidents(not fighting.)- the dog didn't dare to do her business at home anymore. this is pretty serious. imagine you are so scared, and you are to hold whatever you have inside till the next day.
my fren decided to bring the cat to SPCA. since this wasn't the first time they found strayed cats being abused in the public. when they were there, the staff at SPCA asked if the strayed cat is sterilised. unsure from my fren since it was found strayed. so i guess the SPCA went to do a thorough check on the strayed cat and found out that it was sterilised. this was what the staff mention to my fren that the cat is sterilised, they can't take the cat. What does this mean? SPCA don't take sterilised strayed pets? - fair enough that the cat is adult(don't know how old it is). But why posed such ideas like it's either you put the cat to where you found or take it home as pets. Now...I'm dumbfounded. Lost for words when my fren told me this.
when i refered to the surrender notice. I was suprised. Surprised by the fact that so many animals might be dumped. but why turn away from sterilised strayed pet. they needed a home too.
"The SPCA is the only animal welfare charity in Singapore that does not turn away any animal. Around 1,000 animals come to the SPCA every month! That's an average of 35 animals each day!!"
Choices given to my fren
1. put back to where you have found.
2. bring it home as a new pet.
3.let the SPCA put it to sleep.
I'm sure most of us will choose the 2nd choice. why? you wouldn't want to put the cat where you found it because you feared the fact that it might be abused by other people living there or somewhere else. Since the SPCA stated that it might put it to sleep due to the limited resources, you definitely doesn't want to take a life away. so the only choice left is to bring it home as a pet.
I have SCV at home. watched the SPCA documentaries from aust. I realised they take pets seriously. Laws will befall anyone who abused the pets. Sinagpore has that too. remember the incident of someone going around killing cats some time ago? Aust SPCA take strayed animals seriously too. Aust SPCA would treat the strayed animals in good condition before finding them a good home. the only one time i saw the Aust SPCA put a cat to sleep was due to the fact that she was badly abused to be saved, if it was saved it will be a paralysed pet. who would want to keep a paralysed pet and it would be hard for people to adopt it. so the only way to is put it to sleep. sad to hear but it would be a better way for that cat.
Are you comfortable to let a pet to be put to sleep?