Written Answer by Ministry of National Development on cat-related nuisance feedback

Feb 18, 2019

Mr Louis Ng Kok Kwang: To ask the Minister for National Development 

(a) for each year in the past ten years, what is the number of cat-related nuisance feedback for common property areas that HDB has received involving

    i. stray cats and
   ii. owned cats living in someone else’s residence respectively; and

(b) whether such feedback has decreased in the Chong Pang constituency over the past 10 years.

Answer:

Cat-related nuisance feedback in HDB estates is tracked by individual Town Councils. AVA, in its role as First Responder for animal-related feedback, receives cat-related nuisance feedback from across Singapore. AVA started tracking such cat-related feedback from 2016. Stray cat-related nuisance feedback across Singapore increased from around 2,300 cases in 2016 to 3,600 cases in 2018. Pet cat-related nuisance feedback increased from around 500 cases in 2016 to 900 cases in 2018. Cat nuisance feedback in Chong Pang constituency has remained relatively constant over the same period.