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That's extraordinary. I thought rescue cats with serious/expensive injuries usually get put down? Especially somewhere like HK.
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With official charities yes they do get put down, even the healthy ones. Last year there was a lost cat who got 'rescued' by the HK SPCA, he had an owner but with no microchip. The owner came forward and wanted to take the cat home but the SPCA refused on the grounds that she failed to provide a picture of her and the cat together, she provided tons of pics of the cat, but not good enough. So instead she said she was happy to pay the rehoming fees and rehome her own cat again, as did many cat lovers came forward putting in the same request. However, the vets said the cat was deemed aggressive thus not suitable for 're-homing'. They killed the cat 7 days later, despite an on-going dispute regarding the ownership of the cat and whether the cat was actually aggressive or was he just scared of what was happening. The boss of the SPCA covered the killing of the cat for a further 2 weeks before revealing that cat was long dead. It made it to the national newpaper.
7 days is all captured stray cats will have with the big official charities, which is why a lot of people would rather go to parks and alleyways or what have you to feed stray cats every day than bringing them in. It's created a social problem with people who love cats and people don't mind them vs people who just don't like animals. A lot of the time stray cats get poisoned from their regular feeds because they have learnt to trust their feeders who would leave food out on the same spot regularly, but some selfish people who would put rat posion or other harmful stuff in the mix. It's sad.
As a result of the long lasting killing rather than ignoring or saving culture, there have been a lot of independant cat volunteers and semi-official but not really cat chairties (basically a bunch of friends with loads of spare time and love for animals) who would do just this - rescue as long as they stand a chance. They usually set up a FB page to ask for donation, like this kitty here. I think this woman has raised around £3k so far in the last few weeks, which sort of just about cover the on-going vet bills.
This pic is a cat called Lucy, lost her eyes due to neglact of cat flu, also got rescued by the same woman
Someone else rescued a cat that got run over by a train or cat or something and his back legs, tails including half his rectum were gone, but they didn't give up and donation was flooding in, sadly he passed away a couple of days later.
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Facny looking after a seriously traumatized cat? I have no relation to any party involved, but I just feel that a western person with a different mindset (more open, wouldn't lock a cat in a cage because they scrtach the odd sofa, wouldn't force their cat for a cuddle or selfie etc) would probably do this cat a world of good. I am from HK so I know how weird some cat people can be in HK.
His skull got eaten by bugs but he is on the mend after going through a lot of expensive treatments and will be leaving hospital in a couple of weeks. I think the woman who rescued him is looking foa a foster home for this cat pretty urgently.