
As Battersea celebrates its 140th anniversary of serving to cats, the charity has as we speak introduced a brand new collaboration that can considerably enhance the welfare of tens of millions of cats worldwide.
World-renowned charity International Cat Care (iCatCare) has developed the Cat Friendly Homing (CFH) programme, which can intention to essentially enhance the welfare of cats world wide by shifting present approaches to rehoming within the sector in direction of a extra proactive and strategic means of working, and in flip enhance cat inhabitants administration on a long-term, international scale.
The programme, funded by a three-year grant from Battersea, contains plans to help the rescue sector to develop into extra skilled and sustainable, ship veterinary coaching round key topics together with neutering and shelter drugs, and produce collectively consultants and organisations from completely different areas to deal with cat inhabitants administration collectively extra successfully.
Vicky Halls, Head of Unowned Cats at International Cat Care, stated: “Currently, we’ve got not one disaster however an ideal storm of challenges, together with the impression of a worldwide pandemic and the cost-of-living disaster, impacting severely on an already overstretched sector. Now is the time for us to adapt, cease the endless cycle of reactivity and make a change for cat welfare. Cat Friendly Homing, an iCatCare initiative, represents a shift to a extra proactive means of working that won’t solely deal with the issue at a inhabitants stage, but in addition assist extra unowned pet cats to attain the end result that most accurately 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. Through the charity’s Global 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 yr Battersea awarded twenty grants to rescues and different organisations throughout six international locations, benefiting virtually 350,000 canine and cats.
Roxanne Nazir, Head of Grants and Programmes at Battersea, stated; “At Battersea we consider it’s our duty to assist not solely the animals which can be delivered to our centres in want of our care, however to assist tens of millions extra by working with organisations like iCatCare in direction of a shared objective of enhancing the lives of canine and cats world wide. We are proud to help such an bold 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 see the impression this work begins to have on feline welfare and the rehoming sector over the subsequent three years and past.”
For extra details about iCatCare’s Cat Friendly Homing Programme, go to
https://icatcare.org/unowned-cats/cat-friendly-homing/. To discover out extra details about Battersea’s Global Programmes work, go to the Battersea website.