The 12 cats adopted by employees of Shangri-La at the Fort, Manila, are not the missing felines from a beloved cat colony at Bonifacio Global City (BGC), an animal welfare group said on Thursday. Ria Ilano, senior volunteer at Compassion and Responsibility for Animals (Cara) Welfare Philippines, told the Inquirer that the group compared pictures of the adopted cats with those of the missing felines from a Facebook page run by a group of volunteers, Cats of BGC. “One thing’s for certain, those are not the cats of BGC,” she said, adding that they may have been cats rescued off the street, but not the park adjacent to the hotel where the BGC cats lived. Volunteers remain committed to searching for the missing cats, Ilano said. 10631, the amended Animal Welfare Act, because it did not have a permit from the Bureau of Animal Industry to transport the cats.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 22, 2018 20:37 UTC