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Prevention is the kindest way: Sterilization program in Montenegro
Prevention is the kindest way: Sterilization program in Montenegro

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Montenegro is a small beautiful country unfortunately not particularly renowned for the high standards of animal welfare and protection. Wherever you turn, you see suffering cats and dogs roaming on the streets. The few laws into effect are poorly enforced and incessant cases of animal cruelty and abuse are reported every day.

Local population not always is correctly educated to providing right care for their pets. Sterilization is a rare event as not yet considered as the solution to prevent diseases, give animals’ healthier lives and keep stray animal population under control. This lack of awareness and low responsible pet ownership education do lead as consequence the growth of dumped puppies, kittens, unwanted cats and dogs who are suffering on the streets after being regularly abandoned when sick, injured or no longer needed.

Montenegro has very limited resources to allocate for companion animals needing shelter, rescue, foster care, or vet care. There are very primitive municipal shelters for dogs and no municipal shelters for cats. Only compassionate people or foreign groups privately care for homeless animals and give support to families who cannot bear veterinary costs helping enhance animal welfare within the country.


The focus of our project is to start helping Montenegrin animals with a sterilization programme addressed to stray and owned cats considering that cats can produce litter of kittens at a much higher rate increasing exponentially the number of stray animals in just a few years. Many times, pregnant cats and newborn kittens are thrown in the trash, abandoned along highways, in forests, parks, or in carton boxes and the majority of them are sick and injured animals who will suffer and die alone, because no vet care is available for them. With so many unwanted cats in the community, animals are easy targets for human cruelty. Cats and kittens are routinely kicked, stomped on, drowned or shot by children and adults.

Thanks to our OIPA representative in Montenegro, we have started collaborating with Kotor Kitties, an all-volunteer non-profit organization with the primary goal of removing barriers to spay-neuter procedures for companion animals and reducing the suffering of community animals in Montenegro. Their objective is to reach and maintain a sterilization volume that surpasses the birth rate, effectively reducing the number of stray and feral cats in the area, giving the ability to local community to properly care for them. Additionally, they are the only organization in Montenegro focused on cats and their specific needs, reason why we have decided to collaborate with them.

 

Our joint project “PREVENTION IS THE KINDEST WAY!” will help increase the available number of high-volume spay-neuter surgeries for cats in collaboration with local veterinary clinics in order to reduce the overall population of unwanted cats while improve the health of animals.

 

HELP US SAVE THE LIVES OF LESS FORTUNATE CATS IN MONTENEGRO!