We think this is something of an image problem, no?
Is there a lurking subtext here that they do not want the Cats Protection League to be associated with the concept of Crazy Cat Ladies, or perhaps, to be less gendered, Pathological Pet Hoarders?
Cat charity CEO quits over colleague keeping 18 cats in house: Charles Darley claims chair of trustees is not adhering to standards charity expects of public.
Actually, it sounds as though there is a new regime, that is a bit concerned: [T]hat the charity should have a code of conduct for trustees and an animal welfare audit of cat fosterers, which he said the “board has blocked for several years”. “I have never in my career, working for 14 different charities, found trustees unwilling to sign up to a code of conduct,” Darley said. After failing to get the company’s backing for a new code of conduct, including welfare standards, he concluded he could not change the culture and stepped down. “My view is that if trustees’ duties in supporting the charity’s objectives ever conflict with their own private position, they should always put the charity first,” he said.
The trustee in question has 18 cats in a three-bedroom house.
A spokesperson for CPL made a statement: “In the case of our chair of trustees, herself a volunteer fosterer, we found the six foster cats in her care were kept in a separate, clean and well-kept area of her house, away from her pet cats. All were happy, healthy and had sufficient resources for them to express their natural behaviour, such as separate food and water bowls, scratching posts, hiding places and so on. Such conditions are in line with Cats Protection’s guidance and therefore there are no welfare issues of concern.”
Which suggests that she already had a dozen as pets? Hmmmmm.
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This is charming: the man who built homes for 60,000 swifts. He has also made about 700 boxes for barn owls and 800 for blue tits, finches, blackbirds and thrushes. According to the British Trust for Ornithology, a high percentage of swift boxes put up in the UK have been made by Stimpson.
The issue being that the upgrading of buildings in which swifts used to nest means the traditional nesting holes are no longer there.
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