YARCAT PET CARE FOUNDATION WILL BE CLOSED

The YarCat pet care foundation, which has been officially operating in Yaroslavl since 2012, will be closed. The animal rights activists announced this decision on the organization’s page in VKontakte social network. The volunteers spoke about their moral and emotional burnout associated with working in the shelter and the general negative state of affairs in the area in the region.

The shelter began its work in 2009, when members of the initiative group, united by the idea of ​​helping stray cats, came up with a name of the foundation. Later, the organization began to collect donations, conduct communication activities through its website and social networks.

The kittens, which were found, were nursed and treated by volunteers and housed by the organizers.

Now, however, the animal defenders have lost their heart. The volume of work, according to the representatives of the fund, is not decreasing, and every year the number of volunteers willing to come and help absolutely free of charge is getting smaller.

Among those willing to provide support, there are no people who have the power to initiate normative legal acts and make government decisions. Compassionate people are less and less common, many stop visiting the shelter after the only attempt to clean it, while the rooms where the cats are located is dilapidated, and there is no money to repair it in the organization's budget.

The pandemic has also played a negative role in the work of the YarCat Foundation.

Last spring, the head of the shelter, Svetlana Eremeeva, told reporters that the employees managed to purchase feed for animals and their processing means in advance. However, the trickle of financial aid, consisting of poor voluntary donations from the residents of Yaroslavl, gradually thinned out, but no one canceled the rent of premises and payment of utilities.

During the pandemic, cats are less likely to be taken to homes. Two or three people, who continued to work in the shelter, did not have any salary or leave, but at the same time, spent all their free time on saving animals. There was no money left for charitable support in the sterilization of animals for the townspeople with low incomes. At the same time, the representatives of the foundation note that the “competitors” distributing unsterilized animals to the townspeople instead of charity began to be engaged in business, discrediting the very idea of ​​protecting pets.