Introducing the Tyre Cats Cat Colony

There are a few people helping to care for a cat colony in South Auckland; this includes caring individuals, members involved in other cat colonies and members of Animal Liberation Aotearoa.

The plan for this colony is to de-sex all of the cats and return them to the colony. Once they have become more tame we would like to place them all in permanent homes.

As far as we can tell there are eight adult cats and three kitten who have been born in the last month. There are two ginger males; one with white and ginger and one who is just ginger. There are two black and white cats; the bigger one is female and she just gave birth to three kittens. The other one is not sexed as yet and have a white spot on his/hers nose. There is black/brown cat with a bushy tail and ginger patch on her front. She is classed as being tortoise shell and is most likely female; we call her Braveheart. Then there are three smaller black cats who are likely to be last seasons kittens. The three new kittens are as yet to be desexed but there appears to be one grey one and two who are black and white ones.

Yesterday we went to feed the cats as we do every Wednesday and we got the pat the cats for the first time YAY! As we sat with the cats we were able to pat them while they ate and we even played games with them and a cabbage leaf. We that was until one of the little black ones took off with the leaf.

We also saw the grey kitten for the first time hiding under a pallet. He or she looks very cute but I don’t think that we will be getting very close to them for a while. They spend most of their time hiding in amongst the tyres and pallets.

This weekend we are hoping to build them somewhere warm and cosy for over winter with pillows and blankets.

We will up date you on the progress of that soon.

Love Jasmine and Kelsie

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