Cuddleton British Shorthairs

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Operation Kitty Rescue - Meet the girls

So the cats dont have names. They were called the cats in pen eight and the cats in pen ten etc etc. That is soooooo sad. So Carole and I named them. Here are the girls about to go into a safe and spacious pen at Carole's.

The black and white kitty is called Sweetie Pie. She was very dirty in her face but once we washed it she looked a lot better. She is scared but she will come good.

Pamela
Cuddleton British Shorthairs

Operation Kitty Rescue - The Handover

At the arranged meeting point (sounds like secret agent stuff LOL) I got the boxes out ready to pop the kitties in.

I ended up taking five as they were bicolours and I think we have a better chance of rehoming them than the other colours. The person who dumped these cats and made them someone elses problem clearly picked the colours they could not sell as there was no blues and a lot of brown tabbies. They were covered in poop, had crusty eyes and had been fed a diet of "a little bit of mince and white boiled rice". They were all entire except one girl who was their "house cat". She was discarded too.

And why did they all have to go? They just didnt want them. I have since been told they have some new Norwegian Forest Cats coming and needed the space. So they dumped them on Raquel who was expecting five cats not twenty. They had to go in a small run and were fighting each other as they were so crowded.
Pamela
Cuddleton British Shorthairs

23 British Shorthairs & Scottish Folds Need Urgent Homes

A few days ago one of my friends contacted me to say a lady had called her as she had 23 British Shorthairs and Scottish Folds dumped on her by a breeder. She is a rescuer for SAFE who do a great job helping animals find new homes here in Western Australia. I spent the day making calls till I tracked her down as I wanted to help. I never do rescue as it is too risky to the health of my cats but the rescuer had only two large rabbit runs for 20+ cats and she needed urgent help.

So I agreed to take some and get them new homes plus put the word out to see if we could get others to do the same. My dear friend Carole agreed to take some too so operation kitty rescue was go-go-go!

I packed up the 4WD with carriers, towels and food & litter to give to Raquel who had the cats. She lives in Bunbury which is several hours out of Perth but was coming up to collect some rescue rabbits.

Just as well we have a big car! I was originally collecting four cats, two for me and two for Carole. So I took four boxes. The poor cats arrived at Raquel's stuffed three to a box so I didnt want to stress them anymore.