Spring is on the Horizon!

We have some lovely spring weather during the month of February, the daffodils, and daisies have flowered; the bees are awake from their winter hibernation and we have basked in the sunshine of one of the warmest February on records! For us this means the start of another busy kitten season and our receptionist receiving calls asking for help with pregnant cats and lactating queens.

Our receptionists have a very busy job; they deal with over 70 enquiries a day via phone and email inputting data into our systems and passing on messages to other team members. As well as this, they welcome and help visitors to the centre, book in cats to be admitted, prepare adoption paperwork and complete adoptions with new owners. They also register microchips online, keep our centre shop well stocked and carry out general admin duties. We brought them a new phone headset this month and they are delighted with this, it makes their phone work much easier!

Nikita, one of our receptionist is delighted with the new phone headset

February was a very busy month for us with 130 cats and kittens coming into our care and 119 adopted, including 10 of the very scared cats from the multi cat household we told you about in our last Journal blog. We had our 1-year anniversary party for the opening of our Cardiff Homing and Information Centre to which we invited people who adopted cats from the centre to celebrate with us. The centre found forever homes for 147 cats in its first year, which is a great achievement as the centre only has three pens.

Cardiff Homing and Information Centre Anniversary party

In our last journal blog, we let you know that our sponsor cat Charlie had found his forever home! We are delighted to have this lovely update from his new family about him: “Just wanted to let you know that Charlie has settled in really well! I took him to the vets and had his nails clipped which has helped him so much, he did sulk for the rest of that day but he soon bounced back 😊 He sleeps all day on my daughters bed and gets plenty of exercise late afternoon/evening. We couldn't be without him ❤️”

Sponsor cat Charlie settled in his new home

And this brings unto our new sponsor cat Rain! She is proving to be an amazing mum and both her and all four kittens are thriving, they have all had a vet check today and been given a clean bill of health, and Rain has had her first vaccination.

Rain has been given a clean bill of health

We asked for weather related name suggestions on our FB page and our followers came up with a huge selection of names to choose from, after much deliberation we decided to call the kittens Boots, Wellington, Mackintosh and Beanie! We have had a lot of enquiries from members of the public asking to view/reserve these kittens but as with all kittens this can only be done once they have been weaned, vet checked and vaccinated at the age of 8 weeks, that will be in around 6 weeks’ time. Click here to find out more about becoming a cat sponsor to help needy cats like Rain.

Wellington, Mackintosh, Beanie and Boots

You may have read on our FB page about the two 14 year old cats abandoned outside our adoption centre, we have named them Tinkerbelle and Alley. We have managed to trace their owner, he was going through some difficult times, and had tried to get help from another rescue before leaving the cats here. They are both settling in well, they have had vet checks today; Tinker the male needs a dental and an operation to remove his damaged eye, whilst Alley needs a dental. Before we can go ahead with their operations, we need to run some tests to make sure that they are well enough to have a general anaesthetic, this is due to happen in the next few days, we will keep you updated on how they get on.

Alley and Tinker are waiting for vet tests

On a final note, we have been homing extremely well with most available cats being reserved within a week! Sometimes this means we don’t have such a large selection of cats to choose from, however this does change on a daily basis with best selection of cats being available for viewing on Wednesdays after our vet run. Some cats are overlooked because of their age and one such cat is Roger, he is a stunning 9-year-old neutered male with striking blue eyes, he is super friendly and chatty but does need to be the only as he was admitted into our care for not getting on with the other pets in the household. Click here to find out more about Roger and other cats in our care looking to find their forever homes.