Nearly all of these thirteen successfully rehomed cats have been through very tough times. It is upsetting to read their stories before being brought to Kays Hill.
Leanne of Kays Hill Animal Sanctuary kindly sent me the pictures and the brief summary of their stories which are the captions. I love the successful element of stories, the rehoming and the care given by Kays Hill. They are sad stories, though. Well done to Kays Hill for getting them back to health and rehoming them. Great job.
I was a bit surprised at the number of injured cats brought to Kays Hill. This must make things harder and more expensive for Kays Hill.
It was lovely seeing all the cats and kittens at Kays Hill cattery today, we’d bring them all home if we could!
Cats are much braver than people! They are so very stoic and accepting.
Your sad stories have happy endings but not so in the USA and Canada where many cats are deliberately crippled by declawing, yet many people accept it happening.
There is no happy ending for a declawed cat, they can never have their toe ends put back on, no matter what.
Such a difference isn’t there!
You fight to keep cats whole and healthy while vets perform surgery in those countries to turn healthy cats into disabled ailing cats.
You have no healthy animal killed while thousands are killed over there in Shelters.
That is what is heart breaking!
chelsea was such a sweet little cat, anyone who cared about cats could’nt help but love her. once she was ready she was rehomed with a lovely couple to be an only cat, spoiled rotten in other words!! we never found out about how she had only 3 legs and a deformed jaw, someone at sometime must have loved her enough to pay for all that surgery (they were old injuries when we took her)but when we took the call that this poor cat was in a collapsed state in a back street being pulled about by horrible kids we had to go and get her, but we didnt think she would pull through when we first saw her. she made a very quick recovery though. tlc goes a long way, she looks rough on her photo but she looked a lot better by the time she went off to her new life. the couple did’nt care that she had a bit of a funny look about her, a slightly askew jaw was’nt going to put them off.
we get cats in for all sorts of reasons michael, not all of them are the horror stories. moving house, allergies, owner died, emigrating, found as stray (though sometimes i’m pretty sure thats NOT the case) and of course the animals we have had left at the gates. tied or in boxes or, as in the case of our saddleback pig, pickle,in a dog crate! i know these things are still horrible but i meant that not all of them have injuries. mostly all they need is somewhere safe and a bite to eat.
one of the points i wanted to highlight with this post is the ‘never say die’ spirit that cats have. yes some of the injuries we have seen have been horrible, but just picking one story out, daphne was a young cat, well kitten, who had been born/left in the stable, as far as we know. our first meeting with her was to take a look at a cat that has ‘quite a limp’!! the understatement of the century. her back leg was literally hanging off, i cant imagine the pain that little creature must be feeling, yet she never once growled or hissed. obviously we tried to handle her as carefully and gently as we possibly could but inevitably we must have caused her pain. she was taken straight to our vet who had to amputate the leg. the next we saw of daphne, yes i named her!! she was laid as you see in the photo, again as friendly as can be. she recovered quickly and was very soon wanting to climb and jump about the place, trying to keep her in one place for two minutes was NOT easy. even after all she had been through this little cat has such a lust for life and fun and adventure. they are stronger than we would be in the same circumstances. she adapted very easily to having three legs and to this day, no doubt, enjoys life to the full.
Well life isn’t all a bed of roses is it and if anybody wants all stories to be happy with no mention of suffering then they should read fairy tales.
I think it’s good we learn about all you do there for injured cats,it makes me admire you all the more and if ever I had any money to spare I’d give some to Kayshill.