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Notice of Nominations for Appointed Directors

Cat Protection Society of NSW Inc

AGM 5 November 2016

We are thrilled to announce our community partnership with Telstra Store Newtown. They will be supporting us with some great initiatives to help raise awareness of our important work and raising funds for our cats and kittens as well. They will be running an in-store promotion called ‘Our Bundles support Your Bundles’. For every Medium, Large or Extra Large bundle that Telstra Store Newtown sell and “Cat Protection Society” is mentioned, $25 will be donated to Cat Protection.

If you support the proposed changes to NSW regulation that would make strata more pet-friendly, ASAP email your support to strataconsultation@finance.nsw.gov.au.

Submissions close 27 May. Cat Protection is delighted to support the public consultation draft Strata Schemes Management Regulation 2016 and we have sent this submission to the review. Your submission can be as simple as stating that you support the proposed model by-laws, which support keeping people and their pets together.

If you wish to comment on the NSW Government Natural Resources Commission’s “Pest animal management review” you only have a couple of days left (submissions close 5pm May 30 – the deadline has been extended from last week).

The NSW Government department of Fair Trading has released the Strata Schemes Management Regulation 2016 for public consultation.

Cat Protection is very happy to see the proposed regulation is PET-FRIENDLY!

That’s right – the new Act and Regulation will mean that pet-friendly strata schemes are the norm rather than the exception. This is great news for pets in strata.

The NSW Government Natural Resources Commission is calling for submissions on its “Pest animal management review” and the deadline of 18 May is fast approaching. We want to carefully consider the many ethical, scientific, veterinary and legal issues in our response to these proposals and this takes time.

With so many kittens to cuddle we have decided to extend our Opening Hours!

As kitten season continues we will now be opening our Adoption Centre on

Sundays from 10am to 2:30pm.

Cat Protection’s CEO Kristina Vesk was asked for comment on the correlation between the rise in temperatures and an increase in kitten numbers in recent years:

Sydney Morning Herald  “It’s raining cats, it must be global warming”
Read the full article here

ABC AM “Climate change causing ‘spike’ in kitten numbers”
Listen here for the interview

ABC News 24 also ran the story featuring an interview with Kristina and Dr Anne Fawcett
Read Dr Anne Fawcett’s blog here

Congratulations to our CEO Kristina Vesk who was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for services to Animal Welfare. We are so proud that Kristina’s dedication and hard work for all our feline friends has been recognised, we are practically purring! A true champion for cats everywhere!!!

For local Honours list click here

16-17 January 2016, Sydney Morning Herald – Spectrum

My Secret Sydney

Kate Mulvany was kind enough to share her experience of Cat Protection saying, “They take such care of the cats and they really make sure the cats go to the right owners. It’s a beautiful place to spend time with a lot of felines that are looking for some love.”

Thanks Kate and lots of kitty cuddles for Bowie and Heisenberg!