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1717 days ago

Stray cats

Taito from Manurewa

I'm wondering whether there's ever going to be a way of 'containing' the stray cats/kittens situation in our neighborhoods and animal shelters being inundated with foster cats and kittens in care where they appear to not be able to take any more in. I'm not even sure whether covid19 lockdowns has had any real or detriment impacts to our vet clinics (ie. there appear to be a shortage of vets), or the ability and capacity for animal shelters to take in more stray cats.

We've had 3 kittens hanging around our place (now about 5months old) we've been feeding but not wanting to home/adopt them (we have 1 of our own), trying to find a shelter that could find homes for them but no luck so far. I found one of them this morning sprawled out on the lawn, he hadn't been looking too well recently, but found him stone cold, faintly breathing. Grateful to the clinic for bumping him up the long waiting queue, unfortunately much to my devastation he had passed away by the time we got there. Now I am more determined to find homes for the remaining 2. If anyone knows any shelters that could take these 2 in the meantime until they get homed, I would greatly appreciate it.
I'd be willing to take care of their vet bills and provide food for them as well as assist find homes for them. I'm still reaching out to more shelters, the ones that have gotten back to me are unable to take them in so I'm hoping you would know of anyone that could help.
Thank you!

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