For nearly a month, I've been all excited about Spay Day. The planning and organizing kept me on the toes.Out of the 227 slots available, 210 are filled up. That's 90% filled, way above my estimation of 80%.
My heartfelt thanks go out to the wonderful caregivers at Tampines, who close knit network ensure that no slot went to waste. And the other caregivers who signed up for Tampines pick-up point, who are hard core cat trappers!! I am really touched by their commitment towards community cats.
Also worth mentioning, Bedok caregivers did a wonderful job by filling up all the slots too. I don't know how they did it, but still they are an amazing lot!
As for AMK, the overwhelming response that I was expecting didn't happen. Caregivers who had told me in advance that they will be bringing in extra cats to fill up absent slots, didn't bring those cats. Nevertheless, I tried my best to ensure that those unwanted slots are filled up.
Yeah, I went trapping just hours before Spay Day. I managed to catch 5 tom cats, thanks to the help of a trusting caregiver whom I never spoke to before. And thanks to her cats that trusted her so much to lose their balls.
I was at the AMK pick-up point the at 6.30am. Cats started to come in soon after. It was an eventful morning. We had people going to the wrong pick-up points. We had a transporter whose van broke down, I had to rush down to Bedok to help. Luckily there's another transporter who finish his route early enough to back up.
If that's not enough trouble, there's a veterinary centre who book us in as 2nd in priorty. We were told that they can't promise to finish sterilizing all the cats by that day. I have to reallocate the some cats to another clinic.
Like the previous years, the Spay Day volunteers are wonderful! This year, the volunteers at AMK point are new, but they really did a good job with labelling and sorting the cats! Special thanks to Regina, Timothy, Yang Huan, Qi Yao & Nancy!! And thanks to Ley Chin and June who volunteered for Tampines.
And of course, Spay Day couldn't happen without the wonderful vets who specially set aside time to do as many cats as possible for us.
Special Thanks to the top 3 vets.
1. Dr Kenneth Tong from Animal & Avian Veterinary Centre for sterilizing 32 cats.
2. Ms Bette Wong of People for Animal Wellness for doing 20 cats.
3. Dr Pauline Fong of Mt Pleasant North for doing 20 cats.
I'll like to Thanks the following vets for offering some free slots.
1. Dr Wendy Chee of James Tan Veterinary Centre for 5 free male cat slots.
2. Dr Grace Heng of The Joyous Vet for 3 free male cat slots.
3. Dr Cathy Chan of The Animal Doctors for 2 free male cat slots.
The weather stayed clear till 6pm. Just before the arrival of the 1st van, it started to pour. Due to the heavy rain, the other transporters were delayed. The last van finally arrive around 8.30pm. All the cats came back safe & sound.
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