Updates from Yass Valley Cat Rescue.
Hope for better sterilisation solution
We were excited to read about research underway to develop a way to sterilize cats and dogs with an injection. If this becomes widely available and affordable it will have a huge impact on the welfare of cats and also our wildlife. Fingers crossed!!
2023 update
This year we have taken in dumped kittens (with and without their Mums), helped rehome local cats, and supported residents with stray cats found on properties. We are getting reports that some of the known colonies in town are reduced or gone and this means less cats on our streets, breeding.
Older and Mumma cats
It is difficult to find adopters for cats once they get beyond 3 or 4 months old and we often rely on other rescue organisations to help us out with these, unfortunately. This year we did have a great story with Skittles going to a wonderful home in Canberra.
Skittles was rescued from a life on a property and came in with her kittens. She was still a kitten herself and very thin. Her kittens found homes quickly and she remained in foster care for months. We were so happy when the perfect adopter came forward and gave her a wonderful, patient, quiet home.
We love these Mummas - they deserve a lovely home after a tough life and having given birth while only kittens themselves.
Fundraising
We had stalls at:
Canberra Cat Fest - 22 July 2023
Cliftonwood - 30th September 2023
and we'll have a stall at the Christmas market and street parade in Yass in December.
Please come along and support us.
Or you can donate any time to:
Yass Valley Feline Foundation
BSB: 032-771
Account: 231508
Website
We have created a website to make it easier for people to contact us, find out more about what we do, donate and find cats and kittens to adopt.
Please let us know if you have any feedback about the website as we are constantly looking to improve it.
Council update
The council's 2022 - 2026 delivery plan includes a few companion animal initiatives which is wonderful. We noticed a recent program to provide free microchipping for working dogs and last year the council offered free desexing for pensioner's pet cats.
These steps will go a long way to reducing the suffering of pets and their owners in our community.
Taken from pg 12 of the Yass Valley Council 2022-2026 Delivery Program
The council have been helping us by advertising our adoptable pets on their social media accounts and by providing grants to local community groups. We were successful in our grant application this year to the council for a couple of cat cages to help foster the less friendly cats we take in.
The above plan mentions the construction of a new companion animal facility (local pound) which we hope will include facilities for cats.
Foster care
Thank you to our amazing foster carers, we have all had kittens and cats in care almost full time.
We couldn't do this without our foster carers and Yass Valley and Crookwell veterinary clinics.
Please let us know if you are able to foster or would like more information. Kitten season has kicked off and we are already getting messages about kittens needing homes.
Luckily we have had lots of wonderful people adopting our kittens and we are looking forward to putting these great stories in our 2024 calendar.
Happy endings
Early this year we had several litters of kittens in care that were dumped in the Yass Valley. All were taken to the Yass Vet or delivered to us by caring locals who found them in a skip, a quarry, at a church and by the road. The skip kittens were very young, had no mum with them and were found over 2 days, sadly one of them didn't survive.
There is no need to dump or abandon kittens or cats. It is such a horrible thing to do, the cats become very sick quickly and won't live if they are used to being fed by people. Thankfully we see amazing people rescuing kittens and cats and getting them to the vet or to us or another rescue.
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