Gwent Branch of

Cats Protection

Check out Harry!

We would like to direct your attention to a great web site called www.harryishome.co.uk - it is created by Sue Smith and Harry (the cat), who are both great supporters of Cat Rescues, as Harry had to use their services himself in the past. At this site you can purchase Harry products and a donation from your purchase will be given to a Cat Welfare Group of your choice - so you can spend and donate at the same time!

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Situations Vacant

          We are on the look out for people who are willing to help with the following:

  •  Fosterers wanted, both indoor fostering and we also have a single outdoor pen available.

  •           Home visitors, we can never have enough of these! Although homing is still pretty slow we are looking for people who would be willing to do home visits, possibly just one or two a month and also attend the monthly Cat Adoption Days that we hold.

  •  Fund Raisers – people who can come up with new ideas and set about organising them! Also attending any events we hold or thinking up new venues for the sales that we hold.

  •  Car booters – people who would be willing to attend car boot sales, we have the goods for you to take along but need people who have the time (& enjoy) attending these events.

  •   Venues for collecting boxes, if anyone knows of a venue then give us a call or drop us an email and we can sort out the box for you, if you can keep an eye on the box & emptying it when necessary.

  •  Recruitment Officer, someone willing to visit potential new volunteers and ensure that they are given relevant tasks to do (ie asked along to events, given home visits etc)

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Trapping and neutering feral cats at a local factory.

The sudden closure of Alphasteel in Newport created a huge problem for
the 80 feral cats living on the premises. They had acted as mousers and
rodent control for a number of years and had been fed by many caring cat
lovers at the plant. Since the plant closed just before Christmas, there were
only a small number of employees remaining on site who are doing their very
best to ensure that the cats are being fed, but with so many cats, it was
proving very difficult for them.

Although a few of the cats are friendly, the majority were feral and set out to neuter and rehome as many as possible.

After a great deal of hard work and time, we we have neutered 62 cats that were unneutered & healthy onsite and rehomed 54 cats, mainly to outdoor homes. 

We would like to thank everyone that has helped & if anyone can offer outdoor homes, please ring 0845 371 2747.
 

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New Cat Care Standards

As from 1st January 2008 we will be vaccinating all cats & kittens in our care, as well as neutering, microchipping, vet checking, worming, fleaing & offering 6 weeks free Insurance with Pet Plan. We also test certain cats & kittens that come into our care for FIV and FeLV (anything unneutered, strays, sick, from a high risk area, mums of kittens or a percentage of kittens from a litter if we do not have access to mum). Of course, this will increase the cost on the branch and so we are increasing the donation that we request to £45, but of course this is a donation & so any amount can be offered. Although this may seem a lot, especially if adopting 2 from us, please remember that all this could add up to over £120 per cat if  you did it all yourself at most vets, & that is without any treatment that the cat may need whilst in our care!

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Kittens Dumped in  Cardboard Box in Cwmbran Shopping Centre:

Check out the story of 3 kittens that were dumped in a cardboard box outside Mecca Bingo Club in Cwmbran Town Centre.

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Cat Reunited after 5 years!

 

 

Check out the story of Fernando, a lovely pale ginger male that we took in as a stray from the Caerphilly area. He was microchipped (twice!) & had been reported missing in March 02, however the PetLog details were out of date so some detective work was needed.

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Kittens Found in a boot of a Car:

Check out the story of 4 little kittens that were found after being locked in a car boot for 2 days in sweltering temperatures.

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Lily's Story:

Lily is a lovely black & white female foster cat looking for a home of her own - check out her story to find out what she has gone through since being in care.

Update - sadly Lily had to be put to sleep recently as she had become too ill. She is sadly missed. xx

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