By Ruth aka Kattaddorra
Kays Hill cattery is coming along very nicely now with one side of the pens in the building completed and full of unwanted cats. You can see a list of some other posts about the cattery, including its construction, by clicking this link.
They had radiators installed for this winter by a kind volunteer and it’s snug and warm in every pen. Hopefully in the future there will be the same number of pens the other side and outdoor runs too, but as always money is too short to do all this at present.
Many more cats have been relinquished lately by people saying they can’t afford to keep them any longer, more have been dumped in boxes by the gates.
Yes things are bad in the North East of England but I think people give up their pets too easily. I expect those people still have their luxuries, such as TV and new clothes. They don’t consider the financial burden of food and vets bills they are putting on Kays Hill and other Rescue Centres too.
Gerty is the last one of a family of 15 abandoned cats still without a home, she has been at Kays Hill for 20 months now, hard to rehome because she was so traumatised at the abandonment by the person she loved and trusted and also because she is very shy. She had a chance last year of a home but became so panicky when her prospective adopters went to collect her, that she was ill and had to be taken to the vets, the people changed their minds, no second chances for her.
Leanne had the good idea of teaming Gerty up with Marcus, a more confident cat and the photo of them shows how well that worked out. She looks very well and very content.
This is what it says under their photo on the rehoming page:
‘Gerty and Marcus are to be homed together as Gerty gets very anxious without him. Marcus is a very friendly cat with gorgeous markings and who loves attention. Gerty is more likely to stay out of the way but in the right home with her best friend, Marcus may help her come out of her shell’
We hope someone will come along soon and fall in love with and adopt both those cats, because although they are well looked after and loved at Kays Hill, it’s every cat’s right to be in a loving home environment of their own.
The person who abandoned the cats has never enquired even once about them. Of the 4 cats the RSPCA took, 2 in a bad state were PTS, we don’t know the fate of the other 2.
Of the others, one was PTS last year, this was tragic as he had just gone, along with one of his brothers, to a wonderful home, when cancer in his jaw was diagnosed. His adopter was heartbroken.
Thankfully the others are all doing well in their new homes, a happy ending to their story, we just hope Gerty has a happy ending to her story one day soon too.
kevin is building in the cattery. we need a wall putting up between the kitchen area and where the cat pens actually are, waiting for the elves to come and do it for us hasnt worked so far, so kevin has started on it today. our ‘feral’ cats wont mind, as long as they can get to the direct heat of the range they are happy. sophie has found that she can sit at the back next to the flue and keep toasty, so no-one else is allowed in that spot. the others at the moment are basking in the sun, YES SUN!! it isnt much but its better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick!! we need to make the most of any decent weather, so today is an outside day, getting all those jobs done that have been neglected during the bad weather, thats this afternoons mission. cats are all fed, cleaned and warm. rabbits and guinea pigs the same. horses, ponies, donkeys, alpaca and goats all fed and watered. more donations left at the front gates today, a sack of cat biscuits and a sack of rabbit food, so been and collected them in the wheelbarrow, the lanes too long to carry them and i’m not as young as i used to be! i think it may be time for coffee.
We would probably end up in prison with the ALF people.
Scientists are allowed to legally torture animals yet if the ALF lot rescue them they are called criminals and get locked up!
When will everyone realise that animals are living feeling beings like us, only in different forms?
I can see us making a great team 😉
I’d like to punch some peoples lights right out and I’m not a violent person!
Good. That’s the way. I believe there is a time to voice the way we feel especially when what we feel is right.
sometimes i could slap them till their teeth rattle