In the Huilong New Town community in Lane 515 of Xujiahui Road, a campaign to control stray cats has been going on for five years, successfully creating a new model of a pet-friendly community. The number of stray cats has decreased from 58 in 2018 to 15 today, how did the Huilong community do it? Recently, the reporter walked into the Huilong New Town community to find out.
Beautiful and tidy Huilong community
Innovate community governance, starting from the pain points that plague residents
"The stray cat management action was launched in 2018 and is the first step for Huilong to achieve low-carbon community transformation." In 2018, with the support and guidance of Dapuqiao Sub-district, Huilong Residential Area innovated the community governance model with the concept of green development and ecological civilization, and launched a low-carbon community transformation action. The blockages, difficulties and pain points of the community are also the starting point, foothold and breakthrough point of community governance. Before formulating the low-carbon community transformation action, Ding Wenliang, secretary of the general party branch of Huilong residential area, led the community workers to sort out the incurable diseases existing in the governance of Huilong community through field visits and the "community wish wall", and accurately located the pain point that residents are generally concerned about - stray cats disturbing the people.
Subsequently, the problems caused by stray cats in Huilong residential area were further sorted out, mainly including: first, the rapid reproduction rate of stray cats, and the surge in the number of stray cats in a short period of time is easy to cause safety accidents; Second, the non-scientific feeding of cat lovers has led to increasingly prominent environmental problems; Third, stray cats occupy part of public facilities, and property management is more difficult; Fourth, there are huge differences and contradictions among residents on the governance of stray cats. To this end, when formulating a low-carbon community transformation action plan with the idea of "breaking the situation at the point, deepening online, and integrating on the surface", Huilong residential area took the pain point of stray cats disturbing the people as the main content of "creating a new model of pet friendliness" to break the situation.
Gather multiple wisdoms and formulate scientific strategies
Scientifically formulate strategies to stop wandering in this generation
With the goal of "letting stray cats stop in this generation", Huilong residential area has developed a scientific three-step strategy for the management of stray cats in Huilong community by inquiring about relevant governance case information, contacting and learning from the Shanghai FN team:
The first is to form a volunteer team. The Huilong New Era Civilization Practice Station mobilized and organized community cat lovers and residents to form the "Huilong Community Stray Cat TNR+ Group Care Adoption Volunteer Service Team".
The second is to introduce external empowerment. With the help of the professional strength of social organizations and enterprises such as "An'an Pet Hospital", "Shanghai FN Group" and "China CITIC Bank", the volunteer service team is empowered to formulate a stray cat rescue plan through three levels: sterilization vaccine, group care and rescue, and adoption action; In terms of project fund raising, the fund is raised by a combination of spontaneous fundraising and social venture philanthropy projects. Strengthen internal management, and the team negotiated and formulated the "Responsibilities and Specifications of the Huilong Community Stray Cat TNR+ Group Care Adoption Volunteer Service Team" to clarify service responsibilities and standardize rescue behaviors; Improve safeguard measures, draw up action plans before the official operation, discuss specific details and group protection measures, and equip volunteers with uniform clothing, protective gloves, disinfectant tissues, etc., and do a good job of sterilization docking with An'an Pet Hospital.
Propaganda of the TNR for stray cats
"One cat, one file" establishes a stray cat sterilization file
Control the distance between humans and cats through scientific feeding in remote places
The third is to implement scientific actions. In terms of population control, through the implementation of scientific TNR (capture, neuter, release), the number of stray cats is basically controlled, and residents' complaints are significantly reduced. In terms of safety group protection, through the establishment of a standardized group care system, love feeding points are set up in remote locations of the community, and the distance between humans and cats is controlled, so as to prevent safety accidents and effectively alleviate the contradictions among residents. In terms of loving adoption, we have expanded adoption channels through online and offline platforms, and adopted a total of 16 stray cats, so as to further reduce the number of stray cats year by year.
Consolidate the achievements of governance and promote the concept of ecological civilization to take root in the community
How effective is stray cat management? The feelings of the residents are the most convincing. Since 2020, some residents have successively reported to the neighborhood committee: "The sound of cat meows and cat dirt has decreased significantly, and the community environment is much cleaner and cleaner!" ”
Statistics show that in 2023, the number of stray cats in the Huilong residential area has dropped from 58 to 15. In order to ensure that every stray cat is sterilized in time, and at the same time dynamically understand whether there are new stray cats into the community, with the joint efforts of the volunteers of the service team, Huilong residential area has introduced the "street cat" black technology, through the feeding cat house equipped with surveillance cameras and mobile phone client, the service team has realized the 24-hour remote monitoring of stray cats, scientific and technological feeding and cloud cats and other functions, basically eliminating the situation of feeding leftovers, and at the same time reducing the use rate of disposable lunch boxes, and the community has a new look. Looking forward to community governance in 2024, Ding Wenliang said: "The harmonious coexistence of humans and animals is a key part of the construction of ecological civilization in the community. ”
Use technology to empower the management of stray cats
Promote civilized dog breeding
It is worth mentioning that Huilong Residential Area has broken the situation on the point to "create a new model of pet friendliness", summed up the successful experience of community governance with "people-centered, participatory governance as a means, and community governance community as the goal", and applied it to deepen the "construction of a low-carbon environmental protection ecosystem" and the integration of "building a green block community" online. LEED has both community gold certification and other honors.