A large part of the inhabitants of our city are cats – the ones that have homes and owners, as well as those that have been abandoned or born on the street and search for food in the trash, in basements or from people who feed them at some corner of the house or in some yard.
We are often angry at these cats, because they loudly sing their mating songs in the spring, mark their territory on every corner and nook with foul smelling urine, fight and injure each other. Afterwards kittens are born – hundreds of tiny, unnecessary kittens that die under the wheels of cars, in the teeth of dogs and at the hands of cruel people; they die sick and weak with infected eyes in basements, attics and the yards of our buildings.
They do not appear from thin air – they have appeared because of us. One day the first person through a no longer needed cat out onto the street. Then on a sunny day of March, this cat lady met a wandering cat gentleman from another household, well cared for and full of strength. Two months later the first six kittens were born to this cat lady, afterwards six others were born to each of those kittens…
One cat and her generation are capable of creating 420 000 kittens during a period of six years. There is no way and neither there will be any way to find new homes for all of them, and for another reason – street cats born in the second or third generation cannot be domesticated for life together with humans. Street cats are no longer pets, though they're also not wild animals, since they cannot exist without humans. This is a new species in nature – street cats. This is reality that coexists and cannot be rejected.
The project foresees the:
The implementation of the successful world practice of a stray cat control programme, “catch-sterilise-release”. Sterilisation is a surgery during which the cat’s reproductive organs are removed. The surgery is simple and the cat quickly recovers from it. Several days later, the sterilised cats are transported back to their former locations of residence.
For the project to be as successful as possible, the association Dzīvnieku SOS invites everyone who cares for the life of these four-legged inhabitants of our city to transport the street cats to a veterinary clinic within the framework of the programme “catch-sterilise-release”, by previous appointment by calling: +371 22027095.
Care for one cat costs about LVL 20 – 25 (sterilisation for a female car about LVL 25 – 30, for a male cat about LVL 15 – 25, euthanasia – LVL 15 – 20). Project implementer – the association Dzīvnieku SOS is capable of providing the care for 15 to 20 cats per month.
Project Benefits
The “catch-sterilise-release” programme prevents street cat colonies from increasing, because new litters are no longer produced. Sterilised cats do not fight, they do not meow, and their urine does not smell. The risk of infections is also decreased because the severely ill cats are humanly euthanized. As a result of implementing the “catch-sterilise-release” programme, small colonies of clean and healthy cats will be created in the city. Street cats will no longer be a burden, but the grace of every yard.
Project implementer:
Animal protection association Dzīvnieku SOS in cooperation with veterinary clinics. Animal SOS is an animal protection association trying to change public opinion about animals, their rights and their protection, as well as to help abandoned and mistreated animals. The project will continue the project “The Life of the City Cats” launched by the Animal Protection Group of the Latvian Cynological Federation and the foundation Dzīvnieku draugs. This project was closed in 2007, because the “catch- sterilise-release” programme was funded by the Riga City Council. Now the funding of the municipality is no longer provided and public support is necessary, so that the work started could be continued.
For more information about the foundation, please call: +371 22027095 or e-mail .
Every case is important and together we can achieve more!
Project published in the portal: 20 August 2008
A large part of the inhabitants of our city are cats – the ones that have homes and owners, as well as those that have been abandoned or born on the street and search for food in the trash, in basements or from people who feed them at some corner of the house or in some yard.
We are often angry at these cats, because they loudly sing their mating songs in the spring, mark their territory on every corner and nook with foul smelling urine, fight and injure each other. Afterwards kittens are born – hundreds of tiny, unnecessary kittens that die under the wheels of cars, in the teeth of dogs and at the hands of cruel people; they die sick and weak with infected eyes in basements, attics and the yards of our buildings.
They do not appear from thin air – they have appeared because of us. One day the first person through a no longer needed cat out onto the street. Then on a sunny day of March, this cat lady met a wandering cat gentleman from another household, well cared for and full of strength. Two months later the first six kittens were born to this cat lady, afterwards six others were born to each of those kittens…
One cat and her generation are capable of creating 420 000 kittens during a period of six years. There is no way and neither there will be any way to find new homes for all of them, and for another reason – street cats born in the second or third generation cannot be domesticated for life together with humans. Street cats are no longer pets, though they're also not wild animals, since they cannot exist without humans. This is a new species in nature – street cats. This is reality that coexists and cannot be rejected.
The project foresees the:
The implementation of the successful world practice of a stray cat control programme, “catch-sterilise-release”. Sterilisation is a surgery during which the cat’s reproductive organs are removed. The surgery is simple and the cat quickly recovers from it. Several days later, the sterilised cats are transported back to their former locations of residence.
For the project to be as successful as possible, the association Dzīvnieku SOS invites everyone who cares for the life of these four-legged inhabitants of our city to transport the street cats to a veterinary clinic within the framework of the programme “catch-sterilise-release”, by previous appointment by calling: +371 22027095.
Care for one cat costs about LVL 20 – 25 (sterilisation for a female car about LVL 25 – 30, for a male cat about LVL 15 – 25, euthanasia – LVL 15 – 20). Project implementer – the association Dzīvnieku SOS is capable of providing the care for 15 to 20 cats per month.
Project Benefits
The “catch-sterilise-release” programme prevents street cat colonies from increasing, because new litters are no longer produced. Sterilised cats do not fight, they do not meow, and their urine does not smell. The risk of infections is also decreased because the severely ill cats are humanly euthanized. As a result of implementing the “catch-sterilise-release” programme, small colonies of clean and healthy cats will be created in the city. Street cats will no longer be a burden, but the grace of every yard.
Project implementer:
Animal protection association Dzīvnieku SOS in cooperation with veterinary clinics. Animal SOS is an animal protection association trying to change public opinion about animals, their rights and their protection, as well as to help abandoned and mistreated animals. The project will continue the project “The Life of the City Cats” launched by the Animal Protection Group of the Latvian Cynological Federation and the foundation Dzīvnieku draugs. This project was closed in 2007, because the “catch- sterilise-release” programme was funded by the Riga City Council. Now the funding of the municipality is no longer provided and public support is necessary, so that the work started could be continued.
For more information about the foundation, please call: +371 22027095 or e-mail .
Every case is important and together we can achieve more!
Project published in the portal: 20 August 2008
The Project is placed online on: 20.08.2008
Project completed 31.12.2011
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