Cats To Be Put To Sleep - Not If We Can Help It

Last week we were contacted by a man who had been left three older cats when his father died. These cats did not get on with his cat and so were forced to live outside. Furthermore he was moving and could not take the cats with him. He took the three cats into Animal Welfare in the hope that they could rehome them. However given the cats age he was advised that they would likely be put to sleep if left with Animal Welfare. Many thousands of adult cats was killed every year because most people only want kittens.

The man did not want to see this happen to his fathers cats and he and Animal Welfare contacted us to help; which of course we were happy to do. When it came time to collect the cats we got some good news that one of the cats, a large ginger male, had caught the eye of the person buying the mans house and he was going to stay with him. This meant we only got two cats, which is good given that we are busy with the Backyard Catz.

We were not told what the cats names were or anything about them really; only that they are about five years old. One smaller girl is tortoiseshell and we call her Splotches. She is timid but this could be because she is underweight and has an infected eye that will probably have to be removed. Splotches will go to the vet soon to have this looked at.

The other one is a very large chocolate coloured female we call Moose. She is very vocal and not too shy. She is also overweight and will have to go on a special diet.