Municipalities already managing their cat
colonies with data
Municipalities from 589 inhabitants to 735,129 that have moved from scattered management to having every cat, every euro and every volunteer recorded and justifiable to residents, the municipal council or for applying for or justifying grants
MEOW METRICS - CAT COLONY APP
How it is managed by those who have no time to lose
The first three cases are municipal technicians and elected officials who manage the TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) program directly, without an external consultant and without needing to expand staff.
If the doubt is whether a full platform might be too much for your team, these three cases show that it does not have to be.
01 MEOW METRICS SUCCESS STORY
El Puig de Santa Maria: spending, grants, equipment and volunteers under
control from one place
El Puig de Santa Maria: spending, grants, equipment and volunteers under
control from one place
Data as of
FACT SHEET
Organization
Municipality of El Puig de Santa Maria (Valencia).
Population
9,490 inhabitants.
Contact person
Amparo Roselló, Councilor for Employment, Health, Animal Welfare and European Projects.
Scope
28 colonies, 19 volunteers, 261 cats.
Modules in use
DGDA grants (Spain’s Directorate-General for Animal Rights), equipment inventory, food logistics and digital
volunteer card
The challenge
Public Health, Animal Welfare, volunteer coordination, incident tracking and justification of resources. All at the same time and with a minimal team. Spending, equipment and the grant application lived in different places, with no system connecting them.
The solution
01
Automated DGDA grant. A guided assistant generates Annex I with the organization’s data and the project report, without filling in the official form from scratch.
02
Food logistics. The platform calculates the food that corresponds to each colony and records delivery to each caregiver with confirmation of receipt.
03
Equipment inventory and loans. Trap cages, recovery cages, capture remotes, manual traps and a fridge, with real-time visibility of what there is, how much and who has it on loan.
04
Digital volunteer card. Replaces the physical card and eliminates design, printing, one-by-one delivery and withdrawal of expired or canceled cards.
The result
Spending, equipment and grants can be consulted in real time from a single dashboard.
Your municipality could be the next case
Do you manage grants, equipment and volunteers separately?
02 MEOW METRICS SUCCESS STORY
Yebes: from zero records to a benchmark in Castilla-La Mancha
A councilor who inherited a TNR program with no prior documents now justifies 1,318.7 hours
of work and every euro invested to residents and the provincial council.
Data as of
FACT SHEET
Organization
Municipality of Yebes (Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha).
Population
5,637 inhabitants.
Contact person
Ángel Álamo
Councilor for Health and Social Welfare.
Scope
12 colonies, with direct coordination of associations and local volunteers.
Starting point.
No documented records.
The challenge
When the term of office began there was no census, no history of interventions and no traceability of spending. Without data, any question from a resident or from the provincial council about how the budget was being spent had no defensible answer.
The solution
01
Centralized management of volunteer sign-ups and withdrawals, with a digital collaborator card.
02
Food distribution logistics colony by colony, with confirmation of receipt.
03
Georeferencing of all the colonies in the municipal area.
04
Zone coordinators and direct communication with the caregivers from within the platform.
05
Automatic execution reports to justify the contract.
The result
of work recorded
cats managed
alerts handled
12 colonies with an active TNR protocol and full traceability of the investment.
Your municipality could be the next case
Starting from scratch? Set-up is measured in hours, not months
03 MEOW METRICS SUCCESS STORY
Carrión de Calatrava: 3,300 inhabitants, two volunteers and nine colonies
No budget, no technical staff and no external consultant: a councilor manages the entire municipal TNR program and processes the DGDA grant herself.
Data as of
FACT SHEET
Organization
Municipality of Carrión de Calatrava (Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha).
Population
3,300 inhabitants.
Contact person
Mercedes Moreno, Councilor for Agriculture and the Environment.
Scope
One councilor and two volunteers.
Starting point.
9 colonies, 86 cats.
The challenge
Many colonies to look after, very little time available, no technical profile in the team and no room
to hire external support. The initial doubt was the usual one in small municipalities: whether a full platform
would not be too much for three people.
The solution
01
Coordination between the councilor and volunteers within the same tool, without WhatsApp groups or loose notes
02
Log of neighbors’ alerts with tracking of the status of each colony.
03
Automated DGDA grants module: a 14-chapter, 57-step assistant that generates the Annex directly
The result
cats managed
alerts recorded
Grant application processed entirely without external technical support.
Your municipality could be the next case
If your municipality is small, this is your case
04 MEOW METRICS SUCCESS STORY
Getafe: 162 colonies and hundreds of volunteers coordinated with a single platform
The largest volume managed in a single municipality: 1,444 cats and 2,118.8 hours of work recorded, with sign-ups, withdrawals and food distribution centralized.
Data as of
FACT SHEET
Organization
Municipality of Getafe (Madrid). TNR program carried out by the contracted foundation Salvando Peludos
Population
193,238 inhabitants
Contact person
Fernando, president of the foundation, and Rocío, on-the-ground TNR coordinator.
Scope
162 colonies and hundreds of volunteers.
Profiles using it
municipal technician, councilor’s office, zone coordination, veterinary clinics, contracted foundation, partner associations and volunteers.
The challenge
Coordinating volunteer sign-ups and withdrawals and food distribution among hundreds of people and 162 colonies, while also being able to justify the execution of the contract to the local government. At this scale, a shared spreadsheet is not an option.
Your municipality could be the next case
If your municipality is small, this is your case
And does this really reduce the cat population?
Marchamalo (Guadalajara), 8,714 inhabitants. CES Felimarcha migrated five years of Excel records to Meow Metrics. The evolution chart shows that on 12 October 2024 the colony had 319 cats in total, of which 185 had already completed the TNR protocol.
The curve of total cats peaks shortly afterwards and begins to fall steadily, while the curve of cats with completed TNR stays high. That is the difference between managing a population and reducing it in a controlled way. And it is a figure you can show at a council meeting.
Data as of
cats managed
of work recorded
actions recorded
colonies with active TNR
Your municipality could be the next case
In 30 minutes + Q&A we will show you how your TNR program would look inside the platform, with your
colonies and your volunteers.
Associations, foundations, consultancies and universities use it too
A municipality’s TNR program is not carried out by the local government alone. These are the organizations that work with us on the other side of the same contract.
Data as of
Tacoronte (Tenerife), 24,900 inhabitants. Contracted association
Mireia, president of the association, takes on the full management of the municipal TNR program under contract and coordinates
76 volunteers across 84 colonies. The dashboard adds up to 845 cats managed, 2,017 hours of recorded work,
1,702 actions and 1,167 alerts: the largest volume managed by an association.
“Meow Metrics lets us manage the whole municipal TNR program without losing control of anything.”
Mireia. President of the contracted association in Tacoronte.
Salvando Peludos Foundation. Several municipalities in Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha
Fernando bids for and runs the TNR program of 3 municipalities at the same time, in very different contexts: 353
colonies in total and 147 volunteers, with zone coordinators and individual justification of each
contract. At that volume, a shared spreadsheet is no longer viable.
Several municipalities in Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha
Bkratos Consulting. Canary Islands and the rest of Spain
Ruimán Duarte Tavío, an expert in General Administrative Procedures and Animal Welfare, prepares and
runs municipal TNR programs relying on dashboards, maps and centralized statistics. The
platform does not take work away from him: it frees the time he used to spend collecting and cross-checking data by hand.
“I can serve many more municipalities without losing quality in the follow-up of each one.”
Ruimán Duarte Tavío. Bkratos Consulting
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Scientific research
Octavio, a veterinary researcher and professor specializing in cat colonies, uses the platform’s advanced
features for mass surveys, visualization of complex data and coordination of a project
with several researchers, municipalities and volunteers. His support confirms something important:
that several coordinated actors enter and validate the data is not a weakness of the system,
it is precisely what allows it to scale.
“It gives us the scientific rigor we need to analyze the research project’s data.”
Octavio Pérez Luzardo. Veterinary researcher and professor. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Frequent objections
What people ask us before signing up
It looks very comprehensive. Do we need a consultant to handle it?
No. Municipalities of 3,300 inhabitants use it with no external support. Getting started is a matter of
hours after signing up, and you are not required to activate all the modules on the first day: it grows with the needs
of the municipality.
Is this designed for large municipalities or for one like ours?
For both. It works with one councilor and two volunteers in Carrión de Calatrava, with 3,300 inhabitants, and
with a contracted foundation coordinating hundreds of volunteers in Getafe, with 193,238. It is the same
platform.
We already have the census provided by the veterinary association. Why would we want more?
A census is a snapshot. What Meow Metrics provides is the infrastructure that keeps that data alive. It covers
the legal minimum of Ley 7/2023 de bienestar animal (Spain’s Animal Welfare Act) and also coordinates technicians, councilors’ offices, volunteers and
associations in real time, automates DGDA grant applications, manages equipment inventory and loans,
calculates food colony by colony, replaces the physical card with a digital one and generates the traceability needed
to account to residents or the provincial council. You can start with the census alone and grow
afterwards, without changing tools.
I am an external adviser to several municipalities. Do I lose value if they use a platform like this?
Quite the opposite. The Bkratos Consulting case shows the reverse: the platform removes the
manual work of Excel files, Word documents, reports and calling each volunteer one by one, and frees up time to serve
more municipalities. The adviser does not enter the data; they coordinate and validate what the actors
on the ground have already entered.
They collaborate and work with us
Municipal coats of arms: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 and 4.0 licences (author and details on each file). Salvando Peludos logo: courtesy of the organisation.
