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Ever thought you’ve tempted fate? We have worked regularly over the years with a caring chap who looks after a cat colony in West London. Having mentioned in a phone call that we hadn’t heard from him in a while – yes, you’ve guessed it – the very next day he […]
Continue ReadingSaved for a Better Life Meet Solo and Juliette – two inquisitive and charming rabbits, named after characters from the TV series Silo. They were found abandoned in a box by a bin in Richmond Park in early December 2024 by a kind member of the public. Thankfully, they were […]
Continue ReadingOne 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 […]
Continue ReadingWe 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 […]
Continue Reading“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, […]
Continue ReadingToo 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 […]
Continue ReadingAn 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 […]
Continue ReadingA 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 […]
Continue ReadingRemember 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 […]
Continue ReadingMeet 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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