CoCT praises public's response to its animal welfare survey
The city said it had more than 13,000 responses over the past six weeks.
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CAPE TOWN - With one week left before the City of Cape Town's animal welfare survey ends, it said that citizens had shown a commitment to being involved in the health of pets.
The city said it had more than 13,000 responses over the past six weeks.
The main aim of the survey is to collect data that could later help with funding animal welfare programmes.
MMC for Safety and Security JP Smith said that improving the health of animals would improve the health of communities.
"We share our city with animal companions in our houses, on our properties, and if you have an unhealthy animal population, you have an unhealthy human population, diseases jump the gap and you need to make sure that you have a single approach to improving community health."
Smith said that the data collected would help them address areas that were in need of more animal care.
"This is going to give us a proper representative sample that we can extrapolate towards city-wide results also extrapolating seeing different kinds of demographics and income groups, the health outcomes of those animals and that gives us the ability to have a data-based, data-driven conversation with national and provincial government."