If you are feeding free living cats, you surely know that it won’t be long before the females are pregnant. A never ending cycle of pregnancies not only increases the group of cats, but adds a huge amount of hard work and suffering to the cats and also to you.
By working with Aldea Felina you can make their lives better and your job easier.
How does it work?
Cats who know and trust you are easier to catch. You have the best chance to get them in to a cat transport box and to our clinic. Those who are not so easy to catch can be transported using a special trap. We hire these traps to you for the duration of the time, until all the cats are caught. We can give you advice on how to use the traps and we also arrange with you the appointments at the clinic.
Once the cats are neutered, health checked and returned to their feeding place, you can enjoy caring for them without the worry of babies appearing. Any new cats to the group must be dealt with immediately, catching them and bringing them for neutering as soon as possible. Thus keeping the group healthy and as small as possible.
The costs on your part, for the medical expenses are:
♦ Hire of trap: 50 € deposit. Returned to you when we receive a clean, undamaged trap back
♦ Operation female: 80€, includes short stay in the clinic to monitor her recovery
♦ Operation male: 45€, less than 24 stay in clinic
To secure the appointments and organisation work that needs to be done by Aldea Felina, we require a deposit at the beginning of the job. Once all the cats have been sexed and neutered, we can confirm how many operations we have done and present the final costs. Should a cat present any health problems while in our clinic, we will contact you to discuss them with you and provide the necessary treatment needed.
If you cannot catch and transport the cats yourself, we can arrange to do this for you, for a fee. We are all volunteers and require the travel costs and expenses to be covered. We can confirm a price once we know the size of the colony and amount of work involved.
Talk to us about arranging to catch and neuter the cats you are caring for, it is a relatively quick job, and together we can share the work and costs.
Please fill in the this form if you need help controlling a group of cats, so we can work out a plan. Time is of the essence!
Important: once you start feeding cats, you take on the responsibility for them. Please consider this when you see a cat in need and help them, not turn away. Many sick and injured cats can, with a little attention and medication, make a full recovery. Cats have a strong tolerance for pain, but why should we leave them to suffer when we can stop it? Wouldn’t you want that for yourself?
At Aldea Felina we have the ability to care medically for the cats we come into contact with. The sooner a cat can be returned to a healthy condition and be neutered, is a life saved and years of suffering stopped, for female cats who do not have to care for their family and all that entails. We look forward to working with you reducing the population of abandoned cats living in our communities.
If you have a heart for cats and would like to support our Programme, please donate. You can read more about our work and find all the donation methods here. Thank you!
