Cats Protection Launch The Cat Manifesto – Northern Ireland

We were delighted to be invited to Stormont this week, where Cats Protection launched The Cat Manifesto – Northern Ireland.  This was an opportunity for members of the Cats Protection team to engage with Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) and DAERA’s Minister Muir to raise awareness of five key areas where Cats Protection wants to see action taken to ensure cats are protected.  These actions will help to ensure that all cats in Northern Ireland are able to live free from cruelty, exploitation and suffering.

These five key areas are:

• Give cats their best life,
• End cruelty to cats,
• Protect cats in a digital world,
• Recognise cats as family,
• Keep cats safe and secure,

And you can read about these in more detail on the Cats Protection news page here.

Friends of The Links Group will be aware of the long-standing collaboration and connections between our charity and Cats Protection, particularly with Lifeline, their specialist domestic abuse cat fostering service.  The five key areas listed above are all fundamental to our work in protecting cats and their people from domestic abuse and animal abuse.  We were honoured to be a guest at the launch alongside our colleagues from Dogs Trust in Northern Ireland, where we were able to discuss some of the issues facing all victim-survivors of domestic, child and animal abuse in Northern Ireland.

It was a pleasure to be amongst like-minded colleagues and people, and the giant cat and cat face biscuits were a hit!

You can read The Cat Manifesto – Northern Ireland here

Thank you to our friends at Cats Protection for inviting us to be a part of this event.

The Cat Manifesto – Northern Ireland