These pages and guides were created to provide every visiter with up-to-date and relevant information about cats. I write here mainly about the "management" of street cats and volunteering, but also about feline needs, behavior, care and food. You will also find various instructions and manuals here. I am a volunteer who has been doing this for over a decade.

Cats are everywhere outside. But they shouldn't be.

A cat differs from for example pigeons or rats (and other animals around human residences) in that it is a domestic companion animal and needs human care.

Each should therefore have its own safe home and responsible owners. But they doesn't.

Street/stray/feral cats are homeless cats and, although they are shy, they stay around places marked by human activity - housing estates, gardens and parks, cemeteries, company and hospital areas, parking lots, construction sites...etc. The fact that such cats exist is an unnatural phenomenon that was caused and still is caused by humans through improper care (mainly because cats reproduce unnecessarily and owners are indifferent to this, they do not have their cats that go outside neutered, they give kittens to anyone, where the reproduction process continues, etc.).

What about that?

The ideal would be to take all those cats and find them homes. That is partly what I and other associations are doing. But there are so many homeless, abandoned cats that no shelter or civic association has the capacity to help them all.

People sometimes resort to quick but unsustainable solutions (they take the cats far from their original place or kill them, which is a crime). However, this does not solve the problem, because new cats move in to replace the original cats. It is not related to whether someone feeds cats there - an awful lot of cats are outside and they have nowhere to be.

A much more complex and long-term solution is to have cats under control in a certain area. It is a more demanding process, but I have experience with it and it works. It mainly involves systematic neutering of cats so that they do not reproduce any more and feeding them so that individuals can be controlled (cats learn to come to a certain place at feeding time) and of course education regarding cat care.

Neutered and controlled cat group:

✔️ does not reproduce and rarely lets foreign cats into its territory

✔️ if a new individual appears there, it can be quickly responded to by trapping and neutering

✔️ cats continue to fulfill their pest control function

✔️ they will live out their feline life there at least partially "with dignity", since they`ll never find a home

✔️ after neutering their health improves and they`ll have lower nutrient consumption

✔️ if cats die over time, they will gradually be replaced by new ones, but since they are controlled, new individuals can be gradually neutered again and the group will remain stable in terms of numbers - it will not grow

✔️ a neutered individual has an ear tip trimmed so that it can be easily recognized by its silhouette

There are several places in Bratislava with such controlled cat groups. Unfortunately, even more with uncontrolled ones, which continue to reproduce. The few volunteers (who catch, take to neutering procedure and control the cats) can't do everything - more of us are needed!

Such "management" of street cats is common internationally. For example, in Dubai, Greece, the USA, the UK, Italy or Turkey you will notice cats with a missing ear tip.

⚠️ WARNING: I am not a service or a shelter. I do what I can in my free time. I am not paid for my activities, it is volunteer work (i.e. I do not sh*t money for gas or food, I live in a 2-room mini apartment and I have my own cats). If you find an animal that needs help, help it yourself. I also do it myself and fill almost all my free time with it. I would like to do more, but unfortunately there are only 24 hours in a day and I only have 2 hands and 1 brain.

I do not do this as a hobby and if I had to choose, I would rather lie on a beach or travel with a caravan through the Rub-al-Khali. I do this job for free because it`s necessary. I believe that if someone understands something, likes life, has something to eat and somewhere to sleep, it is their unofficial duty to contribute a drop in the ocean by solving some "world problems" - for example, helping the weaker/endangered/neglected/discriminated individual. Human or animal.

On these pages you will find, among other things, instructions on how you can take the situation into your own hands.

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