Support us
Community cats need you
Help us protect cat colonies and enforce the laws on free-roaming cats. Animal Law Italia is funded only through donations and the 5×1000 (Italian tax allocation).
€15
You help us send a formal notice to a municipality that isn't starting neutering programmes.
€50
You support a complaint against someone who mistreats community cats.
€100
You support a day of training for colony caretakers.
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Where your help goes
The results of the pilot project
Since 2016, the “I Felini di Puglia” project has been holding municipalities and local health authorities (ASL) to their obligations toward free-roaming cats. With donations, Animal Law Italia is bringing it to other regions.
10
years of work
Since 2016 in the provinces of Puglia, then in Calabria.
33
citizen groups
Groups of citizens active in the network.
8
council resolutions
Municipalities that have formally joined the project.
4
active regions
Puglia, Calabria, Basilicata, and Sardinia.
What your donations make possible
Noicattaro’s ordinance and the cat colonies
A temporary ban on feeding animals threatened to stop the people who care for cat colonies. At our request, the mayor confirmed in writing that cat colonies are exempt.
Cats shut inside a building site in Lamezia Terme
The municipality closed every gap in the fence, leaving a colony shut inside a building site with no food or water. After Animal Law Italia's complaint and formal notice, a…
A cat colony in a shared building in Mola di Bari
The ASL Bari refused to recognise a colony because it lived in the grounds of a shared building. After Animal Law Italia's formal notice, the Puglia Region agreed with us:…
Mariagrazia DistanteFor too long, community cats have belonged to “no one”, left to the goodwill of a handful of people. With Rete Felina, we want to give these animals an identity.
Before you donate
Yes, if you pay taxes in Italy. Animal Law Italia is a Third Sector Entity (Ente del Terzo Settore) registered with the RUNTS. If you donate using a traceable method (card, PayPal, bank transfer), you can choose between:
- deducting 30% of the donation from your personal income tax (IRPEF), up to €30,000 a year;
- subtracting the donation from your total taxable income, up to 10% of your declared income.
This is provided for under Article 83 of D.Lgs. 117/2017 (the Italian Third Sector Code). Keep your receipt.
To train colony caretakers, to fund the legal team’s work (requests for clarification, formal notices, appeals against authorities that fail to enforce the law), and to bring the project to new regions.
If you donate by card or PayPal, you can download it from Animal Law Italia’s Donor Portal. If you donate by bank transfer, send us the receipt by email at info@retefelina.it or via WhatsApp.
Yes, any time and with no penalty: just write to info@retefelina.it.