American Susan Roberts, of the Kansai-based Japan Cat Network, met with a dozen interested persons March 8 in Tokyo as part of the animal welfare group's expansion to the capital and its plans to open a cat rehoming center in west Tokyo's Hachioji.
Roberts explained the group's activities, exchanged views and ideas with the animal-loving people at the meeting. All current residents in Japan, participants hailed from some six countries. Their common ground — a keen desire to ease the suffering of animals in their areas.
Roberts and her husband, fellow American David Wybenga, have been instrumental in helping stray cats through the couple's TNR projects carried out over the past 14 years.