Cat Cafe volunteers with strays at Versova. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi

A Few years ago, Bandra resident Shirley Menon of NGO Save Our Strays noticed a sudden spike in phone calls related to cat emergencies. Until then, over 70 per cent of the calls were about dogs. "Today, the frequency of people calling to report sick, wounded or abandoned cats has outnumbered that for canines," says Menon, who launched the NGO in 2003, and is actively involved in animal rescue activities.