My heart goes out to the poor cats caught in this human madness...
Article below taken from asia1
Cat drama adds to Laguna woes
There is more drama in the soap-opera that has been brewing in Laguna Park.
The management committee of the over 500-unit condominium at Marine Parade has, in a recent meeting, unanimously agreed to cull stray cats in the estate.
In June, there was a posting on an online cat lovers' message board here that the condominium management had called for feedback from residents on the severity of car scratches by stray cats.
A resident my paper spoke to said that the cat-culling decision has created disquiet among animal lovers in the estate.
Those against the proposed culling are now trying to gain support to reverse the decision via a petition, said a resident who did not want to be named.
Another resident, animal-lover Tan Thuan Kok, 68, is worried that the current issue with the stray cats would only create more unpleasantness in Laguna Park.
The issue is the latest episode in the estate's on-going en-bloc disagreements and repeated incidents of car andmailbox vandalism.
These events have considerably diminished the spirit of neighbourliness among the residents.
Mr Tan, a retiree, told my paper: 'Residents do not need another source of aggravation or tension. There is already a lot of underlying tension that is not expressed openly among residents.'
Up until the current decision, Laguna Park had, for about a decade, maintained a policy of keeping the stray-cat population low by sterilising existing strays.
Mr Tan understands that the existing sterilised stray-cat population is under 15, compared to 30 to 60 prior to the condominum's sterilisation practice.
He hopes that the issue with the strays can be reversed, given the current tense conditions.
When contacted by my paper, Laguna Park's management committee declined to comment.
The bickering in Laguna Park is likely to have an impact on the en-bloc process and, also, the selling price of apartments in the condominium.
Mr Charles Chua, head of the investment sales department at property company PropNex, commented that the en-bloc process would be dragged on unnecessarily.
'Moreover, the property market has been cooling down,' Mr Chua said.
He and other property agents added that there could be home buyers who might take the opportunity to ask for a lower price when buying a unit in the troubled estate.
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