FWD: Beach hotel’s a-mew-sing cure for strays

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letters commending the Bayview Beach Resort for their initiative in setting up a

'cat cafe'can be emailed to: Mr. Edwin Yap, The General Manager, Bayview Beach

Resort, Batu Feringhi Beach, 11100 Penang - email: bbrpen.

This is the first hotel in Penang to establish a cat cafe as mooted by the

Penang SPCA and it is hoped that all hotels in Penang will follow suit.

Therefore letters to this hotel will also encourage other hotels in Penang to

follow suit with the setting up of more cat cafes.

 

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Saturday, April 13, 2002

Beach hotel’s a-mew-sing cure for strays

By NG SU-ANN

 

PENANG: There is a new cafe on the island where all its guests are treated to

free lunch and dinner by the beach every day. However, there is one catch here –

it is only open to cats.

 

Touted as the first in the country, the cat cafe in the Bayview Beach Resort in

Batu Ferringhi started operating late last month – thanks to the Penang Society

for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA).

 

SPCA administrator Lily Leng said this was part of a “trap, neuter and release”

programme which had been proven successful in several places such as San

Francisco, Hong Kong, Bali and Vancouver.

 

“In the programme, the cafe will be used to catch the cats to be neutered and

vaccinated at our clinic before we release them back at the hotel.

 

 

 

“Apart from controlling the cat population, this will create an animal-friendly

environment in the hotel. Many guests, especially Caucasians, are animal lovers

and don’t like to see hotel staff shooing the cats away,” she said in an

interview yesterday.

 

Leng said the society spent RM150 to vaccinate and neuter each cat while the

hotel built the cafe hut and provided the meals.

 

“It’s a win-win situation for the hotel industry and animal welfare

organisations. Other hotels including Casuarina Hotel, Penang Parkroyal Resort

and Holiday Inn are also keen to set up similar cafes,” she said, adding that

the programme introduced by the World Society for the Protection of Animals

might be extended to restaurants later.

 

She also said if the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

could provide a mobile neuter clinic for the Penang branch, the programme could

also set up dog cafes.

 

Bayview Beach Resort executive assistant manager Ron Hasni Yusuff said two cats

which had once pestered their guests and cooks for food were now the resort’s

proud “resident guests.”

 

“We are tired of having to dump them in nearby markets as they will miraculously

find their way back here. So this cat care and control programme is the best

solution for every one,” he added.

 

He said the two cats, a male and a female, were fed rice and sardine or tuna.

 

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