Welcome to Hounslow Animal Welfare Society
Established in 1976, Hounslow Animal Welfare Society rescues and rehomes hundreds of abandoned cats and other domestic animals each year. Follow this link to our animals currently looking for homes.
Before contacting us, please read our adoption requirements and click here to check the areas around london we cover.
ROLAND NEEDS DENTAL TREATMENT & A HOME!
Roland has just arrived at one of our foster homes. He was picked up straight from the vets which is where his previous owner dropped him off. Although we received a very kind donation towards his ongoing care, what we didn’t realise was that apart from the routine cost of his check up/vaccination, flea/worm etc he will also need dental work done within the next 6 months which will probably mean we will be well out of pocket by the time he leaves.
Unlike Roland, other cats we take in are simply dumped without any thought of where they will live, or how much they will cost the charity. Routine veterinary fees all mount up and extra treatment is often required which can amount to hundreds of pounds.
If you would like to help with the cost of Roland’s dental work please click here to donate.
If you would like to adopt Roland, please click here. He is on our urgent list.
HELP US RAISE MONEY WITH THE PEEL2SAVE CARD!
Buy your Peel2Save card today for just £10 & access 64 fab local offers. Hounslow Animal Welfare gets £5 and you get over £600 of savings & discounts from great Hounslow businesses. For more details click here.
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COME AND MEET US AT THESE EVENTS…
Tombola & Raffle for BA staff at Waterside, Heathrow Airport
7th February from 11am – 2pm
If you work at British Airways come along to a tombola & raffle to benefit HAWS. Please note this is not open for general public but you can meet some of our volunteers there and have a go at winning some lovely prizes.
Our regular Oxley Sale – Saturday 11th February from 10am – 12 noon
For more details of these events please click here.
WE ARE NOW ON FACEBOOK
Chat to us on our Facebook page and keep up to date with what’s going on with some of our friends and volunteers. Why not show us the lovely photos you have taken of your HAWS cats this year? They might even end up in our next calendar.
HELP US BY PLAYING THE LOTTERY
You have to be in it to win it, as they say! Odds to win are favourable with this lottery. You could win up to £25,000 and Hounslow Animal Welfare will benefit too!
HAPPY ENDINGS
By popular demand we have now created a happy endings page! In time we will start putting on more letters which we receive from you. Click here to find the page:
Or you can send us your happy endings by clicking here
KITTENS BEING SOLD OR GIVEN AWAY TOO YOUNG
We would like to advise people of a problem which is becoming increasingly common – kittens are being sold or given away by ignorant or unscrupulous people as young as 4 weeks. Our vets are seeing more and more people coming into their surgeries worried that these tiny kittens are not eating and have serious gastric problems. Kittens start weaning at around 5 weeks. Some are so sick and weak they don’t survive, this is heartbreaking for all concerned.
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DO YOU WANT TO ADOPT A KITTEN?
We are receiving a lot of adoption applications for the very youngest kittens we have, which means that some of our beautiful older kittens are being overlooked.
One of the reasons we are being inundated is that the kitten season tends to start in about April/May so there are hardly any around at the moment in any rescue centre.
If you want a kitten now, there are many benefits in choosing something slightly older.
- Any of our kittens over 5/6 months old will already be neutered and fully vaccinated saving you well over £100 for each kitten.
- Their personalities are more developed – some people want quiet gentle kittens, others want a lively playful kitten that will be great for a family, others want a bonded pair. Choosing a slightly older kitten takes a lot of the guesswork out of what they are going to be as they grow up.
- We don’t let our kittens go until they are between 9 and 10 weeks, and at that age they will have received their first vaccination, so during the first couple of weeks you will need to take them for their second vaccination and in less than 3 months they will need to be neutered. We understand that the financial consideration is only part of it, but these slightly older kittens do deserve to be considered more than they are at the moment.
Please take the time to have a look at our kittens over 6 months old.
From HAWS, any kitten over 5 months old will have been vaccinated, microchipped and neutered already.
PLEASE NEUTER YOUR PETS!
The number of unwanted pets in our area is becoming endemic. HAWS have a strict non-destruction policy (no matter how old or how much medical help our cats may need) but that does mean that our resources are often overstretched.
One of the key reasons for the huge number of unwanted pets and strays is that people are not neutering their pets.
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How can I help?
We’re grateful to those who kindly donate money for our animals. Also to everyone else who helps in any way. We really do appreciate everything you do, whether re-homing, fostering, transporting, fundraising – or even just spreading the word about our charity.