Rescue stories
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One of our past fosterers for both cats and rabbits, who also adopted from us, has this tale to tell. About 10 years ago one of her HAWS cats, a young ginger male whom she named Cashew, inexplicably went missing. After much searching he wasn’t found, but in the intervening […]
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We are always very sorry that we can’t help everybody who contacts us wanting to surrender their cats, but there was one day in 2023 when we rescued 13 cats in one day and all before 10.30 am! Very early that morning (about 06.30 am) one of us trapped 3 […]
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“Winnie came to me as a foster baby at 3 weeks old with her two brothers, Binx and Salem, having been left at a vets with their mother who was sadly not producing milk. They were all 130g-170g which is half the weight they should have been at their age, […]
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Too wild for rehoming? People often ask where we take in cats from and the answer is in various ways – animals dumped at vet practices we work with, stray cats reported to us that urgently need help, members of the public asking for help in rehoming their cat for […]
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An update from Snowdrop Rescue Article There is a previous article about the plight of Snowdrop and her kittens, abandoned heartlessly, rescued on a freezing January night, terrified and sickly. A most inauspicious start in life for all of them, as Snowdrop herself is still very young. Operations were needed […]
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A happy ending in Germany You probably don’t remember us since you have undoubtedly re-homed many, many cats since we last spoke, but we adopted an elderly cat (we named her TJ) at the start of the pandemic and then moved to Germany that summer. I am just writing to […]
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Remember the article about Snowdrop and her kittens? Ice had a prolapsed bowel, and her other boy, Snow, now has his own problems. Snow was not brilliant, health-wise, from the beginning. At 8 weeks, he had to go to hospital as he was unwell, but soon bounced back. That’s when […]
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Meet Arnie, (alias Tigger) My happy boy who bounced around the house. One dark day he lost his sister. Even with 4 other cats to play with, he was inconsolable. Meet Delila, (6 months later) She was being manhandled by a group of children in a park. She was no […]
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We are contacted a great deal to help with stray cats and kittens and we realise we should tell you more of what we do. So here is our most recent rescue. Just the other day, we were contacted by a nice young couple who had seen a stray mother […]
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We have been dealing with a colony of cats and kittens in Southall for some time, having neutered what we thought was all of them! However, a nice lady is feeding them in her garden and the numbers have started to increase. We were called urgently about two tiny tortie kittens […]
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