Spring is here, this heralds the start of kitten season,
and a very busy few months for our team at the centre. Kitten season normally
starts with a trickle of pregnant cats and mum's with new born kittens but this
year it has rolled in like a storm! In
one week alone we had 45 kittens born on site!
With the influx of kittens, the number of cats in our care has doubled
to 158, sadly a fair number of the pregnant cats and queens with new born kittens
were strays living outside. Others are young females such as Zoe who came into our care because she was heavily pregnant, she is only a kitten herself at 8 months of age.
This is one of the reasons we are so
passionate about neutering, not only does it reduce the number of unwanted
kittens, it also helps to stop cats from wandering away from home and reduces
the risk of them contracting infectious diseases such as FIV and Feline
Infectious Leukaemia. Cats Protection in partnership with the RSPCA are offering neutering and chipping for £5.00,
click here to find out if you are eligible to apply for a voucher.
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| Zoe - 8 month old heavily pregnant cat in our care. |
We have some good news on our current sponsor cat the lovely Rain and her adorable kittens, they have all left us to go to their forever homes,
a big thank you to all our cat sponsors, you have made a real difference to
them and many other cats in our care.
With Rain having left us this morning, it’s time to choose our new
sponsor cat, with National Tabby Day coming up on the 30th April, we
decided Ursie is the purrfect choice! She is a 4 year old female who was admitted into our care because her owner couldn't cope, she has 4 beautiful 2 week old kittens. Please click here to find out more about becoming a cat sponsor.
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| Ursie is our new sponsor cat. |
Do you remember Tinker and Alley, the 14 year old cats
abandoned outside the centre? They were both microchipped, unfortunately we
were unable to find their owner so we had to keep them for one month to give their owner the opportunity to come forward, unfortunately this didn't happen. Alley was made available after the month
period and was adopted very quickly; we were delighted for her especially as
golden oldies are more difficult to home.
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| 14 year old Alley has left us to her forever home. |
Tinker needed an operation to remove his permanently damaged
eye, this couldn’t happen until the one month waiting period had passed. We were all worried when Tinker went in for
his operation due to his age but he proved to be a real trooper and rallied
through the operation really well making a remarkable recovery. Looking at him today it’s hard to believe he
is the same frightened cat left on our door step over 6 weeks ago, lots of TLC
from our cat carers has seen him transform into a real love bug! He is now available for adoption, we are keeping
our, fingers, toes and whiskers crossed it won’t be too long before he finds
his forever home.
Tinker has become a little love bug!
Some news on our lovely cat Mushka who was admitted with
burns from hiding under cars, she is doing amazingly well with the sores on her
back and shoulder almost healed. Unfortunately,
her ear didn't heal despite our vet’s best efforts so she underwent surgery to have it removed. She has recovered really well
from the operation; we are hoping it won’t be much longer before she is
available for adoption.
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| Mushka had an operation to remove her burnt ear. |
We have homed 401 cats and kittens since the beginning of
the year, although this is less than the same period last year, we have homed
more elderly and FIV +ve cats which is great news as these cats tend to take a
long time to home.
Two kittens who have left us to their forever home and are settling in well are Daff and Dill, the two kittens sold on line for £360, they were advertised as 8 weeks of age but were in fact only 5 weeks old and very poorly. We sent a press release out about them and their story was picked up and publicised by several news and radio stations including BBC News, BBC Radio, and Heart radio, they also made the front page of the Glamorgan Gazette. We are delighted about this, hopefully their story will encourage people to adopt not shop, our advocacy team is also using their story to urge the government to consider regulating cat breeding, and the sale of kittens through third parties and online.
Two kittens who have left us to their forever home and are settling in well are Daff and Dill, the two kittens sold on line for £360, they were advertised as 8 weeks of age but were in fact only 5 weeks old and very poorly. We sent a press release out about them and their story was picked up and publicised by several news and radio stations including BBC News, BBC Radio, and Heart radio, they also made the front page of the Glamorgan Gazette. We are delighted about this, hopefully their story will encourage people to adopt not shop, our advocacy team is also using their story to urge the government to consider regulating cat breeding, and the sale of kittens through third parties and online.
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| Daff and Dill settled in their forever home. |
Finally, an appeal for our longest staying cat Willow, she
is a beautiful 6-year-old neutered female, she was admitted into our care
because her owner moved and couldn’t take her with them. She was very poorly with flu and had an old
injury to her eye so needed an operation to remove it. Willow is a little sweetie, she has been with
us for almost 3 months now and is getting a bit fed up being penned up. She has lived with other cats but will need slow and careful introduction to new cats, she is more suited to a home with no/older children. If you are interested in adopting her, please
call us on 01656 724396 or email us at bridgend@cats.org.uk
That’s all for now, hope you have enjoyed this update and
please look out for the next one.
Bye for now!
