Showing posts with label feral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label feral. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Feral Furbabies

 

Hi Everyone,

Time to tell you about my new project…

I have been so excited and really couldn’t wait to tell you all about it.

I have joined a team of ladies who have started a feral feeding scheme at the Pavilion Shopping Centre.

There is a lot that needs to be done and a lot of areas could use your help.

Before I get carried away, for those of you who don’t know;

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a feral cat is a domesticated cat that hasn’t been socialised. They have either ended up being abandoned or have strayed away from their homes.

 

 

Ferals mostly rely on scrounging through garbage to find food. The luckier ferals are part of a feeding scheme.

To get to my main point of this post, I would like to ask for your help.

There are a few little kittens still following mommy, and some bigger tabby kittens. I haven’t seen daddy cat yet. But I will keep you up-to-date with developments.

We would like to trap and sterilise mommy, but this is what Lisa who has been feeding these angels on the weekends, has noticed:

“ I saw 3 new adult cats and the 3 new babies came out from their trolley safe haven for a bit. They look about 4-5 weeks old.  The Mom is either a tabby or a big black female cat as she looked very heavy but she could be about to drop kittens.
I also spotted an adult tabby with a long fluffy tail.
There are still 3 tabby’s and I hope to somehow try capture them as they are getting rather big now and the conditions leave much to be desired but thankfully they do have some shelter.”

After doing a bit of research and looking at where the kitties are situated; we could really benefit from donations of the following:

  • Cash donations: for maintenance (buying the below items),(banking details per request via email)
  • Dry cat and kitten food
  • Food bowls. (ideally we should be using stainless steel bowls, to reduce the spread of bacteria, but ice-cream containers or the like would be more than helpful)
  • At the moment there is no place where food can be kept dry and safe from the elements.
    If you have any materials for example: wood off-cuts or tarp, that would help us to build a few small boxes to house food bowls


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Please contact me on stuffdidoodles@gmail.com if you can help with any of the above. BIG and small donations are very welcome.

We are hoping to get plenty donations for our angels so that we will be able to share with the various feeding stations at the Pavilion.

Thanks to all of you for your regular support and be sure to pop back for more updates.

Yours Purrfully

Di

Friday, 03 June 2011

Help Durban’s Feral Kitties

 

what do you think he's sayingMy kitty Stiggy and I would like to appeal to you today…

Yesterday was one heck of a day so I would really like to see some good come from it.

While buying my groceries yesterday I ran into the lady from Animal Action Cat Rescue.

She used to sell books in a little centre on the weekends to raise funds for the kitties in her care. Yesterday she told me that she was no longer allowed to sell books there.

If you read my posts you will know that organisations like Animal Action rely on donations and fund raising to feed and sterilise animals.

Animal Action’s work stops the over population of feral cats within the city and surrounds. Without the feeding programme there would be unhealthy colonies as well as bigger problems than just trying to control the population of these feral kitties.

Toni who I chatted to yesterday, and Steve play a vital part in the Cat Rescue area. They have taken on responsibility for feeding and sterilisation of a feral cat colony in the city at their own expense.

Please consider helping out…

These are the ways in which you could help.

  • · A shopping centre that is willing to allow a weekend book sale…
  • · Donations directly for the kitties - pet food or money to buy the food.
  • · Donations of books to sell
  • · Jumble to sell – ornaments, pots, pans, dishes, books, tools, cosmetics.

Please remember that any donation you make, no matter how small helps.

Please share this post so that Toni and Steve can receive the donations they desperately need.

They are able to collect donations.

Contact them…

Toni: 071 361 1488

Or

Steve: 072 322 9263