Feline straying: challenge your candidates!
In France, nearly 11 million homeless cats survive as best they can in the dark cornersof our towns and villages. Cold, hunger, disease, malice: their daily life is a constant struggle against these evils. Yet this misery is not inevitable: solutions exist. What is needed is the political will to implement them.
What the law says
The management of stray cats is the responsibility of mayors. Your future elected representatives have the power and the duty to act! Municipal elections are a decisive moment.
A charter to be signed to challenge your candidates:
You can demand concrete commitments to a sustainable and ethical policy and thus in the fight against feline straying. One Voice has prepared a charter explaining the issues and detailing the measures to be taken by municipalities for real action against feline straying. Between now and the mid-March elections, ask your candidates to sign the charter, and send us the signatures you collect!
A clear commitment in five measures:
1. Set up or actively support sterilisation campaigns, in conjunction with local associations and veterinarians.
2. Create and maintain living spaces for sterilised cats that have been released and left free, in particular through appropriate measures such as Chatipi.
3. Conduct awareness-raising campaigns among the population, as feline straying is the result of abandonment and lack of sterilisation.
4. Deploy educational tools to teach children from an early age the values of
responsibility, respect for animals and harmonious cohabitation.
5. Support the mandatory neutering of all cats from 6 months of age at national
level, with penalties for non-compliance (except for cats registered in the Official Cat Breed Registry and without outdoor access) in order to tackle the root of the problem.
Chatipi: more than a shelter, a place to live
For years, One Voice has been working to combat feline straying and supporting local authorities willing to take action. Pending a national emergency plan, the Chatipi scheme creates spaces for sterilised stray cats: safe places where they can be protected, fed and receive health care, while raising public awareness of their plight. More than sixty partnerships already exist throughout France.
Saturday 14 March 2026: a national mobilisation
To alert and raise awareness about feline straying, One Voice is organising a coordinated
campaign in several cities across France on Saturday 14 March 2026.
Cats without families dont it have a vote. But you do!
Send the charter of commitment to your candidates! No, the street is not freedom. Contrary to popular belief, the life of a stray cat is neither free nor happy. It is precarious, violent and often short. To do nothing is to condone suffering.
Download our educational tools. Take part in the national campaign. Discover our Chatipis
Feline straying: challenge your candidates!
Solutions exist to combat feline straying,