An ever turning cycle!

We often hear the phrase, “a New Year new beginning”, and whilst we haven’t had a new beginning as the cat welfare feel rolls on regardless, we have had a first in 20 years with all available cats in centre being reserved!  This included 8-year-old baby who was diagnosed with kidney disease and our lovely 17-year-old cat sponsor cat Lily who was adopted by Jeff and Linda who emailed us this lovely update:

“She went to the loo in the carrier in the car on the way home, just as we pulled out of your drive way and that meant windows open…  Made us laugh; we know that bit works OK too well! She spent yesterday under the bed but coming out for food warily. Some fusses but we are letting her get used to the room on her own. This morning she came out from under the bed ears forward and tail up when we brought food, and has used the litter tray OK. Much fussing was requested from her and she stayed out from under the bed. She is now curled up in her basket you kindly let us have and she will glance up when I check in, then put her head back down to snooze”.

Lilly settled in her new home

With Lily leaving us to her forever home, we now have a new sponsor cat called Charlie.  Charlie was admitted to us with a fractured hip, he has had surgery to repair this and is currently undergoing a physio programme to encourage him to use and strengthen his leg.  Charlie is a real sweetie, and a big favourite with everyone here!   You can find out more about our cat sponsorship scheme at here 

Charlie, our new sponsor cat

 

Daisy and her kittens have also left us to their forever home, many people were following their story in our blog and queued early in the morning on the day they became available with the hope of adopting one of them.  We were not surprised that all were reserved very soon after we opened, they are adorable and Daisy did an amazing job of raising them.

Daisy's kittens - 8 weeks old

For every cat we home, there are more out there which need our help so we continue to admit more and more cat!  January has seen 77 cats come through our door with a further 25 arriving in the next few days.  Cats come in for all reasons with the main ones cited are owner unable to cope, stray, unwanted litter, change in family circumstance and landlord issues. One of the new arrivals is Stiggy who we believe was abandoned outside the centre, he was found by one of our cat carers trying to get in through a window, he obviously knew we were the right place to get help J . We decided to keep Stiggy for 14 days as we do with all strays and to advertise him locally in case he was lost but as no owner has come forward, he has now been reserved and will be leaving us to his forever home very soon.  Some cats can become frustrated being penned up so we enrich their environment as much as we can, and Stiggy being a quick learner soon got the hang of using his puzzle feeder.



Cat Carer Ceri teaching Stiggy how to use his puzzle feeder

Just as one kitten season ends another one starts and this week we took in our first pregnant cat of the year, we have called her Rain, she has been vet checked and is fit and healthy.  We are expecting her to give birth in the next couple of weeks.



Heavily pregnant Rain having her vet check

Another new arrival is Toffee; she was admitted to us from a multi cat household of 16 cats. She is a real sweet heart but is a bit shy and is really benefitting from her hide, which gives her some privacy reducing her stress levels whilst giving her the confidence to start coming out knowing that she has somewhere to retreat to.  Toffee is in desperate need of some dental work, which will be carried out before she is available for adoption.
 

Phew!  Writing the blog makes us realise how busy we have been already this year.  It time for us to go back to caring for our cats, hope you have enjoyed the journal and please look out for the next one.

Bye for now!