As Battersea celebrates its 140th anniversary of serving to cats, the charity has as we speak introduced a brand new collaboration that may considerably enhance the welfare of thousands and thousands of cats worldwide.
World-renowned charity Worldwide Cat Care (iCatCare) has developed the Cat Pleasant Homing (CFH) programme, which is able to purpose to enhance the welfare of cats around the globe by shifting present approaches to rehoming within the sector in the direction of a extra proactive and strategic approach of working, and in flip enhance cat inhabitants administration on a long-term, world scale.
The programme, funded by a three-year grant from Battersea, consists of plans to help the rescue sector to turn out to be extra skilled and sustainable, ship veterinary coaching round key topics together with neutering and shelter medication, and produce collectively specialists and organisations to sort out cat inhabitants administration collectively extra successfully.
Vicky Halls, Head of Unowned Cats at Worldwide Cat Care, mentioned:
“At present, we now have not one disaster however an ideal storm of challenges, together with the affect of a worldwide pandemic and the cost-of-living disaster, impacting severely on an already overstretched sector. Now’s the time for us to adapt, cease the unending cycle of reactivity and make a change for cat welfare. Cat Pleasant Homing, an iCatCare initiative, represents a shift to a extra proactive approach of working that won’t solely sort out the issue at a inhabitants degree, but additionally assist extra unowned pet cats to realize the end result that most closely fits their wants.”
Battersea’s longstanding mission to be ‘right here for each canine and cat’ doesn’t solely apply to the animals at its centres. Via the charity’s World Programmes technique, Battersea works with organisations throughout the UK and internationally to assist enhance animal welfare on a worldwide scale. As a part of this work, final 12 months Battersea awarded twenty grants to rescues and different organisations throughout six nations, benefiting nearly 350,000 canines and cats.
Roxanne Nazir, Head of Grants and Programmes at Battersea, mentioned;
“At Battersea we imagine it’s our accountability to assist not solely the animals which are delivered to our centres in want of our care, however to assist thousands and thousands extra by working with organisations like iCatCare in the direction of a shared aim of enhancing the lives of canines and cats around the globe. We’re proud to help 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 not wait to see the affect this work begins to have on feline welfare and the rehoming sector over the following three years and past.”
For extra details about iCatCare’s Cat Pleasant Homing Programme, go to https://icatcare.org/unowned-cats/cat-friendly-homing/. To search out out extra details about Battersea’s World Programmes work, go to the Battersea web site.
