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CARE
4 CATS IBIZA
Caring for feral cats in Ibiza
care4cats
is an English charitable organization, founded
by animal lover Angela
Collins in 1999, with the aim:
caring for the welfare of abandoned, stray & feral cats in Ibiza. |
The thousands of abandoned, stray & feral cats of Ibiza experience great
difficulty surviving, but still the cat population in Ibiza grows
tremendously every year.
While many cats suffer of AIDS and other diseases, cats also frequently
fall to prey of the starving dogs of hunters, or simply get shot, but no
matter what, new kittens are born regularly.
Unfortunately, there are only very few people who care for their piteous
and desperate existence.
Therefore, the volunteers of CARE4CATS come to the island of Ibiza twice
a year.
Each visit they are responsible for the trapping of, approximately 350
feral cats, which are taken to one of the local vets for a health
check and any necessary medical care and of course the very important
neutering.
From each ’neutered’ cat a small tip of the right ear is cut, to prevent
them of being trapped again.
Then the animals are brought back to where they were trapped, and
CARE4CATS will also make sure that local volunteers bring food to these
animals.
They also arrange a loving home for sick and / or convalescent cats, who
can not survive outside.
Animal shelters and cat shelters are overcrowded in Ibiza, and
usually the poor animals are put to sleep after 3 days.
Local governments are not taking any action against the cat
surplus in Ibiza, such as:
- Regular sterilization operations at a reduced rate!
- There is NO medical care for homeless, or sick animals.
* There is the
possibility that the Spanish Government
on short term carries through an amendment,
which allows the police
to fine everyone who feeds feral cats !! |
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To date, over 9000 cats
in Ibiza are cared for, adopted, spayed and neutered by CARE4CATS,
something that helped to reduce the number of cats on the island
significantly.
Although the veterinarians, adjoined with CARE4CATS, work for a reduced
fee, the organizational costs for each visit run up to € 10,000.
The CARE4CATS
charity is entirely dependent on donations.
IBIZA4ALL hereby calls on your love for animals, so we
together can make sure this fantastic initiative of
volunteers can continue its important work:
to improve the
lives of all the abandoned, stray & feral cats in Ibiza that
have no home and spend their lives outside. |
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