NTU Cat Management Network

Annual General Report

Academic Year 2017-2018
Contents
Message from the President

The AY 2017/18 Main Committee and Hall Coordinators

The Campus Cat Report

Obituraries

Events for AY 2017/18

Campus Collaboration for Animals AY 2017/18

About the NTU Cat Management Network

Message from the President
Like what we had experienced in AY16/17,
the past academic year had an influx of new
cats on campus. In addition, we had encoun-
tered a major stray dog incident that had oc-
curred in the beginning of the academic year
which led to a chain of events we had not ex-
pected or prepared to handle.
We had a total of seven new cats entering
the campus — four were successfully inte-
grated into halls. Two have been adopted out,
and one is currently still up for adoption.
As the year went by, we had also discov-
ered that there were feral cats living in various
hidden spaces in North Spine. We decided
that it was better for these cats to be left in
the current caretaker’s care, since they were
unapproachable.
Instead, we would be supporting the cats’
welfare through her. In September, three
stray dogs were sighted on campus, two of
which were spotted daily, which was unlike
the usual cases of stray dogs being sighted on
campus on previous occasions. It became an
issue for us when the dogs started attacking
our cats, which we believe was the cause of
Youth’s passing.
We teamed up with NTU’s Animal Lovers’
Society (ALS) and with the guidance from
Save our Street Dogs (SOSD), we success-
fully trapped both dogs — whom we named
Nanyang and Techie — and housed them at a
boarding kennel.
From then, we conducted collaborative
fundraising sessions with ALS to raise funds
for both our cats and for Nanyang and Techie
for their boarding fees while they underwent
rehabilitation.
Amidst these events, we grieved the loss
of Youth and Teh Bing, who had unexpectedly
passed on while recovering from anaesthe-
sia after undergoing a surgery for his urinary
tract blockage.
In this year, we have spent about $5,300
throughout, including fundraising expenses,
food supplies, vet bills and transport.
Our fundraising efforts had also paid off as
we had raised $2,363 from online and offline
sales, which was an increase from last year.
$798 of our profits went to ALS as part of our
collaboration to raise funds for Nanyang and
Techie, resulting in a $1,565 net profit.
All in all, although not as smooth-sailing,
AY17/18 had been a fruitful year for us as
we experienced and overcame multiple unex-
pected issues. This year, may we continue to
grow and be more known to the student body
and the public, so that we would be more of
a close-knit community with endless love to
shower upon our campus cats!
Cheryl Tan
President
AY 2017/18
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The 14th NTU Cat Management Network

Main Committee
President Tan Cheng Yee Cheryl
Vice President Albert Tan Yee Hau
Honorary General Secretary Liu YuCong
Financial Controller Lee Mei Wai
Deputy Honorary General Secretary Chen Taoyu
Marketing Design Director Feng Daifei
Publicity and Publications Director Natasha Ganesan
Business and Events Managers Wang Pinxi
Sun Ruijia

Hall Coordinators
Operations Manager Nur Qalishah Adanan

Northwest (Hall 3, 12-16, 22-24) Yu Xi

North (Hall 10-11, 19-21) Eunice Loo
Central (Halls 2, 8-9) Kimberly Tan
South (Hall 1, 4-6, 17 and 18) Ryan Soh Han Wei
Hall 7 Chong Shi Min

Faculty Advisors
and Associate Members
Founding Members Marcella Do
Judith Lindley

Associates Vicki Tan

Asst Prof Judith Walls

Faculty and Staff Advisors Ronald Anthony Lin

Catherine Cheng
Jow Lee Ying
Asst Prof Jesse Thompson
The Campus Cat Report
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From top left: Aaron (LT19A), Bandit (LT1A), Cotton (LT19A), Dipper (LT1A), Flynn (LT1A), Jasper (LT19A)
Meet the North Spine strays.
In 2017, we found a clowder
of three stray cats living un-
derneath LT1A in North Spine.
We have seen stray cats in the
area before — notably, sever-
al attempts to capture Tooth-
less in AY2016/2017 were
in North Spine — but never
this regularly. We determined
that the cats were being tak-
en care of by staff members in
the area, and decided to assist
in managing food supplies
and in purchasing a cat-proof
storage box.
We then found three more
strays living underneath
LT19A, and while we found
plates laid out for the stray
cats, requests for caretakers
in the area to reach out to us
remained unanswered.
The North Spine strays are
more feral and timid than the
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usual hall cats. This may be
because of an aversion to hu-
mans, perhaps because of a
lack of socialisation, or abuse
from passing humans. They
may also be averse to traps,
due to previous attempts at
neutering the colony.
In the next year, we are
planning to recruit volunteers
who may be able to help the
North Spine cats.
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Sandy
Cola
Chip
Nachos

Doritos

Albus
There are about 29 cats on campus.

Robbie
Bushy

Millie

Mimi
Sally

Sky
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Marmalade/Ginger
Bobby
Nougat
Terry
This number includes the
cats in North Spine — and
one cat, Spot, that has been
put up for adoption
AY 2017/2018 has proven
to be yet another year where
it’s been raining cats. While the
number of cats we are caring
for (pictured on these two pag-
Wangcai
es) remained constant at about
22, the campus saw around six
new cats, two of which were
eventually adopted out. NTU
Chin Chow
Rusty
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Minerva
Xiaohei
also saw a cluster of six cats
that we found in North Spine.
Another freak accident oc-
cured with Youth in Hall 10/11,
who we suspect was mauled
by stray dogs that came by
the area. Teh Bing, in Hall 7,
also died following complica-
tions from surgery for urinary
tract blockage. Vet bills this
year focused on check-ups for
new cats, as well as medica-
tion and treatment for illness-
es like cat flu.
Snowfoot
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Seven new cats were found on campus this year.
A total of six new cats were
found on campus this year.
Unlike last year, most of these
cats were abandoned as
adults, and only a small num-
ber was adopted out.
The cats we found include
Chin Chow, a former commu-
nity cat in Jurong West found
in Hall 10/11; Albus, who was
found in Hall 17/18; Steven,
who was found at Hall 16;
Chip, who was found in Hall
1; Spot, found at SRC, Dor-
itos, known as Fake Nachos
until this year, found at Hall
17/18, and Nomi, who was
found in Hall 10 and 11.
Our volunteers helped fos-
ter some of these cats, and
bring them to the vet.
We would like to stress that
abandonment is a crime that is
punishable by law. We will make
every effort to report cases of
abandonment to the police.
NTU Cat Management Network
Socialisation and
adoption ages
We do not send kittens that are
more than eight weeks old up for adop-
tion, as they would be beyond the age
where cats develop a fear of humans.
This may vary between cats,
however, and some cats may choose
to trust humans if trust has been
built properly. Some may also have
been abandoned after they have
been socialised by former owners.
Hence, we deal with each new
cat on a case-by case basis.
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Campus dogs vs. campus cats
Two campus dogs — suspect-
ed to be the cause of death for
one hall cat and disappear-
ance for another — brought
CMN and ALS together to
find a humane solution
Early in the start of the ac-
ademic year, we saw three
stray dogs appear on cam-
pus. These dogs — nicknamed
Nanyang, Techie and Uni (af-
ter our university) — roamed
the ring road surrounding
the campus. They were more
widely spotted around the
Northwest and Northern clus-
ters. Then, on 19th September
2017, Youth’s body was found
highly decomposed under a
Grad Hall 1 building. He was
missing for nearly a week be-
fore, while Milky was missing
nearly two weeks earlier.
There was no certain proof
that Nanyang and Techie were
the cause of Youth’s death —
the only proof we had lay in
a report from a resident say-
ing that he heard dogs bark-
ing, and a cat running off, the
morning Youth went missing.
But we remained concerned.
Dog attacks decimated 12 cats
on campus in 2013, and has
happened infrequently since.
We later received news
from facilities management
that NTU was planning to trap
and send the campus dogs to
the AVA pound, where we
were certain that they would
be put down.
Since AY2015/16 — the
last time dogs were sighted on
campus — our policy has been
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Top: Nanyang and Techie roaming on
Nanyang Crescent near Hall 14/15
Inset: file pictures of Milky and Youth
to assist in trapping, rehoming
and rehabilitation efforts as
much as we can.
We believe while these
stray dogs need to be treat-
ed humanely, concerns from
the resident communities also
need to be taken into account.
Hence, we partnered with
the Animal Lovers’ Society and
SOSD Singapore to trap, reha-
bilitate and rehome these dogs,
and raised $800 for Nanyang
and Techie’s rehabilitation.
With the debut of an is-
landwide stray dog sterilisa-
tion program late last year,
we hope that stray dog in-
cursions will become rarer on
campus in future.
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10 campus cats went to the vet this year.

Most of these visits were
for minor issues, though our
campus cats are still see-
ing health issues stemming
from old age

Not counting cats that are

new to this year’s Campus Cat
Report, 10 cats went to the vet
in the last academic year.
The visits were related to
issues ranging from small
wounds to urinary tract block-
ages, though injuries were
more common, given the stray
dog problem that occurred
earlier in the academic year.
Cat flu was also a major issue.
The new campus cats also
visited the vet for a gener-
al checkup — which allowed
us to look for health problems
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that occurred before it be-
came serious. The checkups
included a general microchip
scan, so we could determine if
it had been lost or abandoned
within campus.
Notably, Teh Bing, who
was hospitalised repeatedly
for a urinary tract blockage,
Drama surrounding Chin Chow
The former Jurong West cat
was at the center of a tussle
between caretakers over where
she should continue to live
On 15th Feburary, we
found a tabby cat we’ve never
encountered hanging out at
Hall 10 and 11. The cat was
friendly, and appeared to have
been released by a resident,
who claimed that he was its
owner and took it back. The
cat was then seen again a
few days later, with the owner
nowhere to be found. We
unfortunately succumbed to
complications during his op-
eration and passed away.
Other cats that required
long term hospitalisation or
fostering included Bobby,
who was believed to have
survived an encounter with
stray dogs in the area.
then posted a found notice
on social media, which led
to two separate groups of
people approaching us about
the same cat. We learnt that
the tabby — originally named
Hunter — came from a cat
colony located in Jurong West.
The two groups each
claimed to care for Hunter,
and both groups claimed to
have fed the cat for decades,
and while one party wanted
the cat to remain in our care,
another demanded that the cat
be returned to the community.
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We have attempted to
save costs this year by get-
ting volunteer fosterers to
care for cats with minor is-
sues, which helped reduce
hospitalisation costs.
In general, this has al-
lowed us to spend $3,433.60
in total this year.
As we were concerned over
the cat’s welfare, we decided
to bring all parties together
for a discussion, where it
was decided that Hunter —
now Chin Chow — will be
integrated into Hall 7.
Exceptions like these are
rare. We always return com-
munity cats back to their ter-
ritories, if we can determine
where they formerly lived. But
in this case, as Chin Chow had
already been integrated into
Hall 7, we decided to continue
to take care of her.
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The campus cats through the years

Lion and Peanut were kittens

that were eventually adopted
The cat icons were out by volunteers and staff
created in AY 15/16 by
Merlin Cheng to pro-
mote our campus cats

Mimi was reclassified

as part of the Central
cluster in AY 2016/17

The North Spine cats

reside in two colonies
— LT1A and LT19A
They were ‘discovered’ in
separate batches, hence the
staggered lines in the chart
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We’ve recorded 62 individual campus cats who have lived on campus through the years.
Most of them are no longer on campus, except the 29 we have included in this year’s report.
We’ve listed their names here, and tracked their lives from July 2014 to August 2018

Cats that existed before 2014

are marked with a dotted line
before the start of this graph

Toothless and Kieran were

two elusive black cats that we
sought to integrate but failed

The number of Hall 2 cats have

remained relatively constant
through the years — with only
minor changes to territory

Two of Hall 10/11’s cats died

on 2015 of age-related issues
— like kidney failure and FIV —
while another died at the vet.
Obituaries
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Teh Bing
(circa 2012 to 22 November 2017)
Teh Bing, a ginger cat from
Hall 7, passed on at the vet on
22 November 2017 as he was
undergoing catheterisation for
a persistent urinary tract infec-
tion that had plagued him ever
since he was integrated into
the Hall 7 community.
Teh Bing, who was found at
the Hive in September 2016,
was introduced in the Hall 7
community after it was deter-
mined that he was not suitable
for adoption. “He was a friend-
ly and sweet cat, who was
always showering everyone
with love,” said Chong Shi Min,
Hall 7’s coordinator.
An efficient hunter, and an
overall guardian of his hall, Teh
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Bing was always there to re-
assure residents whenever the
going got tough. “(He) would
always be there to tell us that
everything was going to be
fine, with an adorably innocent
look on his face,” said Fariq,
another feeder in Hall 7.
Rest in peace, Teh Bing —
run free over the rainbow bridge.
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Youth
(circa 2010 to 17 September 2017)
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Youth’s life in NTU start-

ed out during the 2010 Youth
Olympics Games, when NTU
was hosting athletes all around
the world. He was found in
Hall 10 and 11 back then, and
named for the Games.
As Youth aged, he gained
a number of nicknames (the
oddest and most unfortunate
being Hitler, under which an
unwitting volunteer managed
to raise about $100 for his vet
bills). A cautious yet flamboy-
ant presence at Graduate Hall
1, Youth was popular amongst
the students who crossed
paths with him.
Youth died in September
2017, while trying to avoid
a spate of dog attacks from
stray dogs that had wandered
into the area. He went missing,
and later succumbed to his in-
juries. His death took a toll on
volunteers, who had just be-
gun to join CMN at the start of
the school year.
“I’ll always remember how
Youth would be so excited to
see me and bump his head on
my leg,” said Eunice Loo, hall
coordinator in Hall 10/11 at
the time. Joelle, another feed-
er, said that “she was glad that
she at least got to meet Youth
once, as it was enough for a
lasting impression on her.
Rest in peace, Youth. You
will be greatly missed.
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Vet Bill Expenditures

for the Academic Year 2017 to 2018
1 August 2017 to 31 July 2018
The vet bill expenditures report includes spending cats have incurred at our veterinary clin-
ics — Vets for Pets (primary) and Island Vet (secondary) — but excludes the following:
a) prescription diets purchased for two or more cats
b) sterilisation costs
c) non-prescription medication for cats (e.g. Revolution) that was not purchased at our
partner vets.
The bills here may not be complete as of publishing; additional bills, if any, will be published
in the next Annual General Report.
Date Cat Cost

28/08/17 Xiaohei ($39.00)

09/09/17 Bobby ($32.00)
04/10/17 Nomi ($20.00)
06/10/17 Teh Bing ($1,015.60)
19/10/17 Marmalade ($123.00)
19/10/17 Teh Bing ($54.00)
14/11/17 Rusty ($62.00)
22/11/17 Teh Bing ($795.20)
27/12/17 Cola
Snowfoot ($155.00)
19/02/18 Chin Chow ($100.00)
31/03/18 Cola ($20.00)
06/04/18 Cola ($115.60)
27/04/18 Steven ($85.00)
04/05/18 Steven ($20.00)
11/05/18 Millie ($428.30)
14/06/18 Sandy ($369.50)

Total ($3,433.60)
 Events
AY 2017/2018
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Participating in the Singapore Cat Festival

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We were a (small) part of the
inaugural Cat Festival — and
we had the chance to help put
a campus cat up for adoption
Singapore held its inaugural
Cat Festival earlier in July 2018.
The festival was held in Kallang
Leisure Park, which featured
many local and international cat
product vendors, educational
talks, workshops and also had
an adoption drive held by Cat
Welfare Society.
The Cat Festival aimed to
gather the local community
of cat owners, while educat-
ing prospective cat owners on
proper cat care and ownership.
Many cat owners also brought
their own cats to the event,
and we saw a whole clowder
of exotic breeds such as maine
coons, bengals, Scottish folds
and British shorthaired cats!
We were given the oppor-
tunity to hold an educational
talk to spread awareness about
Feline Immunodeficiency Virus
(FIV) and what owners should
know about FIV-positive cats.
One of our objectives for par-
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ticipating in this event was to
spread word about Spot, an
FIV-positive cat that was found
on campus. As FIV is conta-
gious to other cats, we decided
to find Spot a home rather than
integrate him on campus; this
would benefit not only the rest
of our campus cats, but Spot
himself as well, as FIV-positive
cats have a weakened immune
system and are more suscepti-
ble to secondary infections.
As of now, Spot is still up for
adoption and we do hope he
would find a loving home soon.
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Visiting the Cat Museum
We visited the Cat Museum
this year, and though it saw
many setbacks in the past
year, that didn’t stop us from
supporting them
Singapore’s first Cat Mu-
seum with live animals for
adoption was located at Purvis
Street. Due to an issue with the
Ministry of National Develop-
ment leading to the landlord re-
fusing to renew the lease, The
Cat Museum, originally occupy-
ing three floors, was forced to
shift out of two floors and could
only continue their operations
in one unit. However, that did
not stop us from visiting and
supporting them!
We first visited the lovely
Supurrstar resident cats and
also had the opportunity to hold
Mama Maisie’s three ginger
kittens. They were full of en-
ergy and could never keep still
in your hands! We also stayed
to play with the cats that were
rescued and put up for adop-
tion. While some were taking
their afternoon naps, others
were running around the whole
NTU Cat Management Network
space chasing toys or receiving
cuddles from the visitors.
Unfortunately, the Cat Mu-
seum ceased operations on 10
June 2018. They managed to
get most of their cats adopt-
ed, though some are still look-
ing for their forever homes.
The Cat Museum has helped
countless cats during their
four years of operation, and
we think it is a shame to watch
them close because of lease
issues. We hope that they will
be able to find a new place to
start up once again.
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Training, service and learning
Service learning continued
to be a big part of CMN’s train-
ing for volunteers this academ-
ic years, with the continuation
of an improved Intermediate
Cat Care Service Learning Pro-
gram, held with Love Kuch-
ing Project, as well as training
meant to impart skills to our
regular volunteer caretakers
and Outreach & Education sub-
committee members. We con-
ducted a First Aid training ses-
sion for all volunteer caretakers
this year, the first year it was
made mandatory for all CMN
members, as well as an exten-
sive outreach training program,
where subcommittee members
learnt important skills regard-
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ing fundraising, like operating
our WooCommerce merchan-
dise platform.
These training programs will
continue to be a cornerstone of
our culture of learning and care,
and we hope that our members
can use this knowledge to help
other animal welfare groups in
our community.
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Fundraising
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Raising funds for both
campus dogs and cats
Fundraising through the Cam-
pus Collaboration for Animals
also saw us producing e-cards
for the first time, so people
had a convenient way to give
Our annual fundraising
events had a slight twist this
year — we raised funds not
just for our campus cats, but
for two campus dogs.
We collaborated with the
Animal Lovers Society (ALS) to
organize the Campus Collabo-
ration for Animals, with the aim
of raising funds to support the
boarding, rehabilitation and re-
homing of Nanyang and Techie.
Our club’s talented design-
ers produced new merchan-
dize this year such as e-cards,
lanyards, phone covers, enam-
el pins, and a brand new
T-shirt design.
Our Campus Cats Tee (last
year’s T-shirt design) made a
comeback too due to popular
demand.
We also set up one fund-
raising booth at the School
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of Biological Sciences during
College of Science Day, and
another booth at the Sky Deck
@ North Spine alongside ALS.
Apart from these booth
sales, we also conducted on-
line merchandize sales via the
online shop on our club’s web-
site. Both offline and online
sales were a huge success,
bringing in a total of $2,363
profit this year. $798 of the
profits went to Nanyang and
Techie as agreed, resulting in a
$1,565 net profit for the year.
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Great financial advice and sponsorship
This year, we received
monetary sponsorship from
Credence, a group of financial
advisors under Great Eastern
Life. The $500 we received
helped in the production of
merchandise for our annual
fundraising event. In March,
two guest speakers from Cre-
Making what students want
by Feng Daifei
Taking up the role of Market-
ing Design Director has been
one of the best decisions I made
in NTU. As many of our cats are
aging, it was inevitable that we
need money to take better care
of them, and making merchan-
dise has become a main source
dence came down to NTU for a
sharing session with the CMN
members, raising awareness
about their company and The
Great Internship – a summer
internship conducted by Great
Eastern. The Great Internship
appealed not only to business
students, but students from
of funds for them. The thought
of this always made me feel a
bit pressured but at the same
time proud, because we could
utilise our skills to actually pro-
vide our cats with greater care.
Besides, it was a really en-
joyable experience to work with
our committee members. I was
guided by helpful seniors but at
NTU Cat Management Network
other courses as well.
Their sharing session al-
lowed us to realise that we
students are not tied down to
only internships related to our
course, and that it was import-
ant to expose ourselves to var-
ious internships and other job
opportunities.
the same time was also given
freedom to make decisions on
my own.
I would like to thank all our
designers — Chen Yue, Yit
Ling, Yue Xin and Emma, who
helped me a lot along the way.
Let’s continue to work to-
gether for our cats — and the
people who care for them.
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Campus Collaboration for Animals

AY 2017/2018

The Campus Collaboration

for Animals is a partnership
between NTU’s two animal
welfare groups — the NTU Cat
Management Network (CMN)
and the NTU Animal Lovers’
Society (ALS).
It began as a collective first
step in 2016 towards a more
humane campus, and a more
humane society.
This year, we started the
collaboration to help Nanyang
and Techie (pictured) find a
home away from campus.
We look back at our fund-
raising efforts to help Nanyang
and Techie.
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Getting people to know
Nanyang and Techie
An intensive social media
campaign — with a student
film and a Instagram account
— helped get people to know
more about our campus dogs
When Nanyang and Techie,
a pair of Singapore Specials,
came onto campus in Septem-
ber, not many people knew
what to do.
While signs and posters ad-
vising residents on what to do
with campus animals were fre-
quently posted, not many un-
derstood what they could and
couldn’t do with them.
The dogs, though wary of
humans, were daring enough
to walk by them when they
were initially spotted by CMN
volunteers.
Campus authorities had indi-
cated privately that they would
trap the dogs and send them to
the AVA pound, where we were
certain that they would be put
to sleep.
Hence, we launched a cam-
paign on social media to get
people aware of what to do
when they saw the campus
dogs, and set up a Google
Form for tips, so we could know
where to trap them.
Later, our campaign turned
to fundraising for their boarding
and rehabiliation. Another stu-
dent group also helped us make
a documentary about campus
dogs and the cat-dog conflicts
that have occurred.
Fundraising efforts — to her first adoption drive on
where we sold merchandise
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online and at booths, saw
CMN raising nearly $800 for
Nanyang and Techie’s boarding
and behaviour training.
The constant efforts of ALS’
volunteers — along with Lee
Ying, our faculty advisor and
Poey Yee — put Nanyang and
Techie on a path of rehabilita-
tion, which Lee Ying document-
ed on an Instagram account.
While SOSD Singapore
helped with sterilisation and
vaccination efforts for the two
dogs, other welfare groups,
like Action for Singapore Dogs
(ASD) and Friends of Seven
(F7) later helped with adop-
tion. Techie is now on home
trial, while Nanyang has gone
1st September.
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Helping future strays go to a loving home
In mid-October, Nanyang
and Techie taught us a lesson
that we needed to be pre-
pared. While the disappear-
ance and deaths of cats can be
heart-wrenching, we could not
stand for putting stray dogs
down when we have a chance
to save them.
In this regard, we would
like to thank SOSD Singapore,
who helped with sterilisation,
vaccination, and boarding
post-surgery for Nanyang and
Techie. Campus authorities
also dispatched its contracted
trapper to assist, for which we
are very grateful.
We are also grateful to our
faculty advisors, like Catherine
and Lee Ying, and volunteers-
from the Animal Lovers’ Soci-
ety, who put in their effort and
time into helping Nanyang and
Techie go to a loving home.
With the help of intensive
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fundraising efforts after, where
SOSD assisted with dog ther-
apy and outreach, Nanyang
and Techie’s rehabilitation has
gone well, with Techie having
gone to a forever home, and
Nanyang up for adoption.
Going forward, we hope to
codify a standard operating
procedure (SOP) with campus
dog sightings, so as to cement
a humane approach to campus
animals from the top down.
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About the NTU Cat Management Network
The Cat Management Net-
work is a cat welfare CCA car-
ing for Nanyang Technologi-
cal University’s campus cats.
We were set up 14 years
ago, on 15 September 2004,
by representatives of the Of-
fice of Facilities, Planning and
Management, a few members
of the (now defunct) Nanyang
Pets Support Group, and rep-
resentatives from the Cat
Welfare Society (CWS).
The NTU Cat Management
Network aims to:
(1) ensure that cats on cam-
pus enjoy an environment that
is safe and away from harm,
through the establishment
of ‘cat cafes’ — now known
as hall clusters — feeding
grounds for our campus cats.
(2) ensure that the campus
cat population is kept with-
in manageable limits through
the trap-neuter-return man-
age programs
(3) educate campus residents
and students on cat care and
cat behaviour, mediating dis-
putes relating to cats on cam-
pus
(4) rescue community cats
that are injured or sick on
campus
We currently have five hall
clusters on campus — feed-
ing grounds for our campus
cats, each led by their own
hall coordinators. Hall co-
ordinators manage the cats
within their designated hall
clusters, and handle any
emergencies that occur.
The ‘cat cafe’ concept —
NTU Cat Management Network
which is not unique to NTU,
and also exists in other cam-
puses, like in NUS — stress-
es humane control of the cat
population through trap-neu-
ter-return programs, and vet
care for cats when they are ill
or injured.
It emphasises responsible
feeding practices — allowing
cats access to clean food and
water, which are cleared after
the cats are fed.
We also educate residents
and students on campus
about cat care and cat be-
haviour, through the use of
social media campaigns and
posters, to mediate disputes
related to cats on campus.
Our volunteers are main-
ly undergraduates, graduate
students, alumni and staff
who are passionate and want
to care for campus cats.
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