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Updated 27/10/09 |
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Time once again for another newsletter from Otterspool and should you be one of
our regular supporters, or someone who has just come across our newsletter, thank
you for taking the time to read it. We hope that people will want to support us when
they read about the all the hard work which is carried out in order to ensure that the
animals in our care receive the love, kindness and well-being they deserve.
Cat News
Ollie, a very handsome six year-old white and tabby male, came
to us from a lady who had taken him in as a stray. Although Ollie
was a very friendly cat, he found it necessary to beat up on one of
the lady's elderly female cats thus making its life a misery.
Obviously, this was not fair on the female cat and so Ollie came to us for re-homing. When we received a
telephone call from a gentleman who wanted to give a home to a cat even though he had never owned
one before, Ollie immediately sprang to mind. Richard came along to meet Ollie and felt instantly that this
was the cat for him. Before he went off to his new home, Ollie had some dental work done to make sure
he was in tip top condition before leaving us. Upon arriving at his new home, it took Ollie only minutes to
decide that this was the place he wanted to be, Richard and Ollie are now the best of friends.
Psipsina, a ten year-old Bengal came to us as her owners were moving into rented
accommodation and were unable to take her with them. 'Sissy', as she is called for
short, was extremely vocal when she first joined us and even though she has now
quietened down, she still has a lot to say for herself. Billy is a very handsome ginger
and white boy who has come to us because his owner can no longer keep him
at her present accommodation. Billy is currently being fostered by
Katie where he is settling in very well with her own cats and dog. Autumn is now upon us and
although many cats can survive by living rough in people's gardens and feeding on scraps
throughout the Summer months, the need to bring them into somewhere warm and safe for Winter
becomes more apparent. Luckily for Twiggy, as we called her, we had 'room at the Inn' to
bring her in. Twiggy was living in a garden, and whilst the owners of the garden were feeding her,
as they spent a lot of time away, they were unable to give her a permanent home. After a trip to
the vets to be checked over, blood tests revealed that Twiggy was hyper-thyroid which we were
able to control by medication. As she was an elderly cat, like so many who are brought to us, her
teeth were also in a very poor condition. We gave her a couple of weeks in which to settle in before
we took her back once more to the vets for the dentistry work to be carried out.
This has made a tremendous improvement to her quality of life, and a further stroke
of luck for Twiggy has been that Sally has agreed to foster her on a long-term basis,
where we can report that Twiggy is very happy in her new surroundings. Yet another
cat from someone's garden was Hazel who was admitted to the emergency
veterinary hospital one evening, following a telephone call informing us that she could not stand up. Thankfully Hazel is now on the better side of
things and is being kept warm and comfortable. A further telephone call from a lady alerted us to the fact
that a small kitten was loose in a car park in a very busy area of Stockport. The kitten, which was black
and about six weeks old, was being attacked by magpies. A trap was set up with some Tuna inside and it
wasn't too long before the kitten was inside and safely transported to the vets. As she was too young to
begin her vaccinations, she was given a health check and treated for fleas. Rachel, the lady who found
her has now given her a home and a name (Tia), and whilst she is still very nervous, we are sure that with
a little patience and understanding she will soon turn out to be a lovely pet.
Whilst we have been quite fortunate with our rehoming
programme of late, to be able to bring in these
desperate cases, we do need to find more good
homes for the existing cats in our care. When Sara
visited us looking for a friend for her cat which she’d
had from us last year, she also brought along her
Mother Sally, who is a regular 'foster mum' to many
of our animals. Sara gave a home to Cheryl who
turned out to be quite a handful, though thankfully
she has now settled down and things really went to plan when Sally fell for Marion as soon as she saw
her, and so we found two good homes in one day. As we had hoped, Daisy's remaining two kittens, Delia
and Dora, were re-homed together, and at just over three months old, went off to join their new 'mum'
Claudine. In our last newsletter we reported a happy ending when we returned Stan and Ollie to
Rhona in Sheffield. Sadly that happiness was brought to an abrupt end when Stan, after showing
no ill effects, suddenly died. The vets think it could have been a massive heart attack. Unfortunately
none of us know why such sad things of this nature occur. However, since it happened,
Ollie has gone from being a really shy cat to a very confident boy. This can often happen when
kittens have stayed together from birth, one can just live in the other’s shadow. We wish Rhona
and Ollie all the best for the future.
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