How Rete Felina works
Citizens, colony caretakers, municipalities and local health authorities (ASL), lawyers and legal experts: Rete Felina offers each of them concrete tools to play their part.
Different forms from one municipality to another, neutering programmes that never start, unclear roles between local health authorities (ASL), administrations and volunteers
For a citizen, it’s often hard to understand who should do what, by when, and with which tools. That’s why Rete Felina exists.
How we follow a case
From the report to the solution: the service is free for colony caretakers and volunteers.
1. You report the case
You sign up for free on legal.retefelina.it and describe the colony’s problem: what’s happening, where, and who is involved.
2. The legal team reviews it
The network’s lawyers check the applicable rules and get back to you: often it’s enough to know what the law provides and who to turn to.
3. If needed, we step in in writing
Animal Law Italia writes to the municipality, local health authority (ASL) or Region: a request for clarification or, in more serious cases, a formal notice. This is how the cases in Mola di Bari and Noicattaro were resolved.
4. You follow the case through to the end
From your account you can see the status of the report and the team’s responses, until the matter is resolved.
Transparency and measurement
Since launch, we have been tracking new local groups, colonies registered, cats neutered and municipalities involved; one year after launch we will publish a report. The interventions of the pilot project in Puglia and Calabria are already documented.
For lawyers and legal experts
If you are a lawyer or legal expert interested in contributing to the project, you can apply as a volunteer lawyer for the network. Support can be occasional or ongoing, on matters related to animal law, administrative law and relations with local health authorities (ASL) and municipalities.