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Singaporeans living in public housing may soon be legally allowed to keep a maximum of two pet cats under a new policy. About the policy: On Dec. 2, Senior Minister of State for National Development Tan Kiat How announced that a mooted cat management framework will effectively reverse a 34-year ban on cat ownership in Singapore’s Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats. Singapore imposed a cat ownership ban in 1989, claiming that felines are “generally difficult to contain" and make caterwauling sounds that can “inconvenience” neighbors.

Housing and Development Board (HDB) apartment owners may soon be able to have up to two cats in their homes

SINGAPORE — Sunny prides herself on being a law-abiding Singaporean citizen, but for the last three years, she’s been hiding a feline fugitive called Mooncake.

As Singapore’s government prepares to introduce a ‘cat management framework’ for HDB housing this year, clandestine cat owners say the change can’t come quick enough.

SINGAPORE: Sunny prides herself on being a law-abiding Singaporean citizen, but for the last three years, she’s been hiding a feline fugitive called Mooncake.