As Battersea celebrates its 140^th anniversary of serving to cats, the charity has right now introduced a brand new collaboration that can considerably enhance the welfare of hundreds of thousands of cats worldwide.

World-renowned charity Worldwide Cat Care (iCatCare) has developed the Cat Pleasant Homing (CFH) programme, which can intention to basically enhance the welfare of cats all over the world by shifting present approaches to rehoming within the sector in direction of a extra proactive and strategic method 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, contains 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 drugs, and convey collectively specialists and organisations from totally different areas to deal with cat inhabitants administration collectively extra successfully.

Vicky Halls, Head of Unowned Cats at Worldwide Cat Care, mentioned: “Presently, we’ve not one disaster however an ideal storm of challenges, together with the affect of a world pandemic and the cost-of-living disaster, impacting severely on an already overstretched sector. Now could be the time for us to adapt, cease the endless cycle of reactivity and make a change for cat welfare. Cat Pleasant Homing, an iCatCare initiative, represents a shift to a extra proactive method of working that won’t solely deal with the issue at a inhabitants degree, but additionally assist extra unowned pet cats to attain 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. By way of the charity’s World Programmes technique, Battersea works with organisations throughout the UK and internationally to assist enhance animal welfare on a world scale. As a part of this work, final yr Battersea awarded twenty grants to rescues and different organisations throughout six international locations, benefiting nearly 350,000 canines and cats.

Roxanne Nazir, Head of Grants and Programmes at Battersea, mentioned; “At Battersea we consider it’s our accountability to assist not solely the animals which can be delivered to our centres in want of our care, however to assist hundreds of thousands extra by working with organisations like iCatCare in direction of a shared purpose of bettering the lives of canines and cats all over the world. We’re proud to help such an bold programme and as we mark our 140^th anniversary of serving to cats, there couldn’t be a greater time to announce this collaboration. We can’t 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.