Charity to Spay/Neuter Cats

[GinBoy2]

I have been thinking for a while about trying to establish (through my wife of course, heaven forbid a farang would think of pseudo working) a charity to spay & neuter cats in Thailand.

The suffering that you see everyday here of cats wandering the streets or kittens dumped at the local Wat, breaks my heart.

For the cost of 2 bottles of Thai whiskey a cat can be spayed and relived of a pregnancy every couple of months, not to mention the less than enviable lives of the kittens produced.

If anyone has any ideas of first steps I'd be happy to hear

[BuaBS]

2 Bottles of thai whiskey ? Spaying a cat is aound 2000 B. I've recently taken in a female cat , but I am very distrusting about thai vets. Do I want to take the responsibility of letting some butcher cut open the cat , and trust him/her with it ? What if it is done in the usual thai "mai pen rai " way. A human's life isn't worth much here. An animal's life is worth nothing. I even have a distrust against vets back home in the nanny state with much better university than here. What if they damage the animal inside , and it suffers for the rest of it's life ? What about hygiene , which is very poor here , infections, virusses from the tools that aren't cleaned well,...

But you are right , the miserie of these unwanted , uncared for animals is terrible. The same for dogs.

I can't even decide for this 1 cat . Fortunately many kittens have a short life so they don't have to suffer too long, and many get runover.

[Hedghog]

BuaBS.

The vets I have encountered have been very professional.

One even made a carriage for a stray dog that had been run over and its back end was paralysed.

It now gets about with back wheels instead of legs.

Often seen in the vets surgery waiting room.

[GinBoy2]

BuaBS; in my experience the cost has been ~฿1000 which is not bad at all. To compare in California I'd expect to pay somewhere in the $70 range.

As for the vets themselves. I've never really had a problem with vets here. Granted I don't live in Bangkok, so don't have much knowledge of many small animal 'foo foo' vets. The surgeries I've been to tend to be basic, but perfectly adequate, albeit with the caveat that their availability is not as great, generally they do another job in the daytime and open their surgery in the evening.

I have a friend who teaches veterinary medicine at KKU, and his skills are globally recognized enough that he serves on veterinary support teams at international horse competitions in California, so competency I don't think is a problem here in Thailand.

As for the risks? Well the risks of infection etc pale compared to the inevitable reduced lifespan of a female cat breeding every 2 months

[BuaBS]

When I lived in another province in Isaan , cats came to me too , I'm a sucker for cats. And they started to muliply. So I went to serveral vets and their price for female cats was always around 2000. Some of them got runover by cars of trucks and kittens dissapeared. If I had gotten them sterilized , it would have costed me a bundle , and them they wind up dead or takes by guests where I stayed.

Do they really have a reduced lifespan for breeding a lot ? Every 2 months is impossible.

[GinBoy2]

When I lived in another province in Isaan , cats came to me too , I'm a sucker for cats. And they started to muliply. So I went to serveral vets and their price for female cats was always around 2000. Some of them got runover by cars of trucks and kittens dissapeared. If I had gotten them sterilized , it would have costed me a bundle , and them they wind up dead or takes by guests where I stayed.

Do they really have a reduced lifespan for breeding a lot ? Every 2 months is impossible.

You are correct I was being a little hyperbolic, in reality they can breed every 16 weeks. Still way too much.

As for lifespan. It's a strain on any female body having, then suckling babies. For the feral cats here they have to get enough food to survive as well as rear their young, which increases the risks associated with malnourishment and the added dangers they risk in obtaining that food.

Certainly your average street moggy isn't going to have the same anywhere near the life expectancy of any properly fed and well cared for house cat

[BuaBS]

In any case , setting up a charity , is not going to be easy and there are many cats, depending where you are. I'm not a dog person but I think the situation with dogs is far worse.

[fakename]

Old post, but im a cat lover, so what can we do to help them? I feed the ones in the village, but that isnt enough.

[BuaBS]

Maybe get some vets onboard ( even retired foreign vets ?) that really care for the animals and not as much for the money , but this is Thailand where everything is about money , as in other countries too , of course.

Even if you set up a charity , how can you and people that support it , garanty the money is rightly spend?

[Bantex]

I have been thinking for a while about trying to establish (through my wife of course, heaven forbid a farang would think of pseudo working) a charity to spay & neuter cats in Thailand.

The suffering that you see everyday here of cats wandering the streets or kittens dumped at the local Wat, breaks my heart.

For the cost of 2 bottles of Thai whiskey a cat can be spayed and relived of a pregnancy every couple of months, not to mention the less than enviable lives of the kittens produced.

If anyone has any ideas of first steps I'd be happy to hear

There's a charity in Sangkhla Buri that spay & neuter dogs in the area. They seem to use visiting foreign vets. They are based close to a small restaurant I use and I am always meeting staff there. If you want I could try to get a contact number for you to find out how they operate (pardon the pun) if you want.