This week on The ChickPeeps, Robbie, Tylor and Evy visit the Stray Cat Alliance headquarters and talk to founder, Christi Metropole about her work running a shelter that saves and rehomes 1,400 cats per year. We discuss the role of vegan advocacy in an animal welfare organisation, the inherent inner conflict vegans face when adopting a cat, and the imperfect solutions we have to the problem of overpopulation. Also in this episode...

• Christi shares how her vegan values and her love of cats went hand in hand, and the decision to advocate for veganism through her work in animal welfare..
• How Christi ‘trapped’ her first cat and began her mission to protect cats when she founded Stray Cat Alliance.
• Christi explains the ‘Trap, Neuter, Return’ program and why culling animals in the wild doesn’t work to control the population.
• Isn’t spaying and neutering our companion animals taking away the reproductive rights of that individual?
• Christi highlights the urgency for resources for companion animals in underserved communities.
• We discuss the inner conflict of vegans who feed their cats a meat diet.
• Christi explains why Stray Cat Alliance is a ‘No-Kill’ organisation and why she believes the no-kill approach ‘isn’t a fantasy’.
• Christi gives her opinion on open admission shelters in LA.
• We talk about why the animal welfare community puts such a strong emphasis on the ‘Adopt, Don’t Shop’ initiative for companion animals.
• Momo and Evy discuss listener, Samantha’s question as to when does the frustration towards one’s non vegan friends and family subside.

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