foster homes for cats/kittens urgently needed
As some of you know I foster cats for Hounslow Animal Welfare. I have just had an urgent e:mail from the organisers which I have copied below. If anyone can either foster or adopt a cat and/or kittens we will be most grateful. Apparently there is major issue at the moment all over the UK with people irresponsibly NOT having their cats neutered and hence there being family after family of kittens needing homes.Fostering is a great alternative to adopting if you:a) Don't own your own home and can't be sure you can give a cat a permenant homeb) Don't have outside space and feel cats should have that access to the outdoorsc) Travel alot on business (or pleasure!) as you can tell HAWs when you are not available to fosterd) Can't adopt a cat for financial reasons (whilst fostering ALL vets bills are covered by the charity and if necessary they can supply you with food, litter and equipment to care for the animals)e) Love to see kittens develop and play as you can have a succession of kittens forever!!!HAWs have a "no kill" policy but cannot take in any more cats or kittens at the moment due to a lack of foster carers and adopters, leaving the chances high of them having to be taken by other organisations who may well only keep them for 2 weeks before putting them to sleep as unwanted animals (yes, even kittens being put to sleep after 2 weeks).Here is the e:mail I received. Please go to the HAWs website www.haws-animals.org.uk for contact information either for fostering or adopting. In either situation you will need to be home checked but when I first offered to foster I was checked and had a cat within 48 hours - so, just think - by this weekend you could be playing with gorgeous kittens in your own home!!!!"There really is a crisis now with mothers and kittens all over the place and this is affecting all charities, not just ours. We have mothers and kittens sitting in vets as we cannot find enough foster homes and we are aware of at least six mothers with kittens in gardens in Southall that neither Cats Protection nor ourselves can help at the moment. We are not particularly asking if anyone could take a mum and kittens (although of course we would be ecstatic) but if you could take just one cat that would release a space for a family.Just for the record we recently attended the CatChar.org 10th anniversary party and both Celia Hammond and the lady who helps run Katz Castle said the whole welfare situation was almost out of hand (a lot of it due to people not neutering their animals) and could only get worse.So any bit of help would be appreciated so much We can lend a pen if necessary."
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