Gyeonggi-do Opens Cat Adoption Center, 12 Cats Adopted Within One Month

Exterior view of the Cat Adoption Center

Gyeonggi Province has adopted 12 cats within one month after opening a cat adoption center in ‘Banryeomaru Hwaseong’ to promote the culture of adopting stray cats.

The cat adoption center is currently protecting about 50 stray cats, and it was announced on the 10th that 12 stray cats found new families from May 4 to June 7.

The ‘Banryeomaru Hwaseong Cat Adoption Center,’ located in Mado-myeon, Hwaseong-si, Gyeonggi Province, is a specialized center for cat adoption and opened on May 4.

The center can accommodate up to 80 cats and consists of 21 individual cat rooms, 6 play areas, an adoption consultation room, a kitten room, a grooming room, a quarantine room, an isolation room, and a veterinary hospital.

Additionally, there is a 120㎡ cat-specialized veterinary hospital equipped with an operating room, X-ray, ultrasound, and blood test facilities for customized cat medical care.

Meanwhile, stray cats at the intake stage undergo a one-week quarantine period in the quarantine room, receive basic health checkups, and then move to individual cat rooms to go through the adoption process, including socialization, vaccination, and neutering surgery.

Park Yeon-gyeong, head of the Companion Animal Division of Gyeonggi Province, said, "As the first cat adoption center established by a metropolitan local government in Korea, we hope it will help activate the culture of adopting companion cats," and added, "We will do our best to help residents who wish to raise companion cats find new family members in stray cats."

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