I went to town for a free student haircut with a fellow caregiver today... to relax and be pampered for 2 hours...or so I thought. Ended up spending the whole time on the phone...my friend had to give the instructions on what to do with my hair because I was more concerned about getting a cat back from AVA.
A few days ago another caregiver IK had messaged me that the town council said there were complaints about caterwauling and too many cats at the bin center of this area: http://meowies.multiply.com/journal/item/299/A_bad_estate
She checked the area and agreed to sterilise the cats after one of the feeders (the owner of the hairdressing salon) offered to pay for the vet fees. She sent an email to inform TC.
Today IK smsed that the pest control came this morning. Luckily the hairdresser had noticed and managed to get the cat released. The caregiver called her property officer, who denied having called in the pest control ! Saying that they are only trying to trap one black cat which defecates on the common corridor.
AVA confirmed that they had an unsterilised cat from that area. The cat was caught by the TC's Pest Control service yesterday.
I advised IK to go down to AVA... I had learned my lesson on betrayal the hard way. Penny also went down to assist and support... while I spoke to the property manager, who first told me the same story about trying to trap only that particular black cat until I confronted him with the fact that the trapped non-black cat is at AVA right now. Then he said there was a complaint and he had to be fair. Okay, so the complainant (who sent some emails without even giving his address to tc) is promptly served. The caregiver, also a resident of that area, is not even told the truth that the cats are being trapped.. Is that a way to treat people who spent much time and money to control the cat population in a humane way. When I requested for a letter to be sent to AVA the TC manager even suggested "to let this one go". I said " No Way!" IK said the same thing when I told her.
In the end the cat was micro-chipped at AVA because of miscomunication between Penny and myself... I had assumed she would request for TC letter. IK had to pay $80 before the cat was handed over to her. She will get him sterilised tomorrow with the help of SPCA voucher from Penny and then release him in a safer area. She will still make arrangements to get the remaining cats sterilised.
