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Cat Protection Society of NSW Inc

AGM 3 November 2018

The following nominations have been received for the election of Appointed Directors, to be held at the AGM on 3 November 2018. Each nominee is eligible for election under the Constitution. There are two vacancies and two nominations:

1. Petra Dobrijevic
2. Guy Farrands

This year we’re celebrating 60 years of caring for cats and to mark this momentous occasion, we ran a competition asking people to send in photos of their cat with something diamond related. We were dazzled by all the wonderful entries and asked our faithful Facebook friends to vote for their favourites.

We are super excited to reveal the winners and launch the Fabulous Felines collection, a very special and very sparkly set of limited-edition brooches celebrating our Diamond Anniversary!

As members have been advised by post, Cat Protection is contemplating moving its incorporation from the auspices of the NSW Associations Incorporation Act and NSW Fair Trading to the federal Corporations Act and ASIC. The reason for this is that the NSW system is intended to cover smaller organisations and our operations and assets are considered too large. However, any decision to make such a change can only be made by members.

At Cat Protection we are very pleased by the news from our latest Ipsos survey showing positive attitudes to responsible pet ownership.

The great news is that vaccination rates have increased by 9% in the past year.

Read our media release for more details.

For the full Ipsos survey click here.

In 2018 Cat Protection submitted to the inquiry into the regulatory approaches to ensure the safety of pet food which you can read here

For more information on this inquiry visit the homepage

For more details of the CHOICE submission click here

Submissions closed in 2018.

Our cats deserve safe and nutritionally balanced food, and cat owners expect to be given accurate and reliable information about pet food.

With the 500 Cats Challenge under way, our CEO Kristina Vesk spoke with Alan Jones about our goal of getting 500 kittens and cats desexed and vaccinated before Spring.

You can listen to the full interview here

Our thanks to Alan Jones and 2GB who have been fantastic supporters of Cat Protection over many years, helping us to reach far and wide with our feline welfare messages. With the 500 Cats Challenge,

The Cat Protection Society of NSW is celebrating 60 years of caring for cats with a major discount desexing program in Sydney: the 500 Cats Challenge.

For just $50, pensioners and health care card holders can have their cat desexed and vaccinated. The goal is to have 500 cats desexed before the next kitten season.

“Desexing is good for a cat’s health and behaviour, it’s good for feline welfare and the environment and of course it curbs the number of unwanted and homeless cats,” Cat Protection CEO Kristina Vesk said “Vaccinations are essential to both individual cat health and feline population health.

This week Cat Protection’s attention was drawn to the cat trapping program commenced in recent months by Hornsby Shire Council.

It has been suggested that we are involved with this program. Cat Protection is not involved with this program – nor are we involved with any other trapping programs.

You can always call our office (and please do) to verify whether any person or organisation claiming to represent Cat Protection actually does so.

Herding Cats was an amazing group exhibition held over two months, as part of the Bein’ Narly 2018 Art Festival, in honour of Young Henry’s much missed brewery cat “Blackie”. Artists in the exhibition generously donated a portion of sales to Cat Protection, in total raising $1281 to help our feline friends!

The exhibition was dedicated to the wonder of cats and featured the following artists – Ben Hay, Sindy Sinn,

Do you have cat-loving friends visiting from overseas or interstate? How about treating them to an unforgettable experience Purrs & Pinot, a unique behind-the-scenes tour of our shelter.

Purrs & Pinot is an Airbnb social impact experience, combining an insight into feline health and sheltering with a mini-tour of Enmore Road, including a chat and a glass of wine at one of our favourite specialist wine bars, Cittavino.