| April 2008 Site
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Ladies 10k
Mini-Marathon 2008
Bank
Holiday Monday June 2nd
Are you taking
part in this year's Ladies’ Mini-Marathon? *
Would you like to help raise
money for Cats' Aid at the same time?
Please contact
us for sponsorship
form & t-shirt!!
Phone (01) 668 3529
or
email: catsaid@gmail.com
Please
help us to
continue our
vital
work with
the cats and kittens.
* You will need to
register now to enter the
Ladies’ Mini
Saturday in the Evening Herald or you can enter online at
www.florawomensminimarathon.ie
The closing date is Tuesday 24th April or when maximum
number of entries is reached, so get your entry in early
and then contact us for your sponsorship form & t-shirt.
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Contact
with Cats' Aid
You may
contact us with regard to homing,
fostering, sponsoring and
general enquiries through our phone line - (01) 668 3529 - or by
email: catsaid@gmail.com
Please include your name, address
and
an evening telephone number, preferably a land line.
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URGENT
APPEAL
to all our Members & Supporters
As you know, Cats’ Aid tries to
help all endangered cats and kittens who come to our notice. Due to our number of fosterers being
seriously depleted, we are having to board many of these cats in
veterinary clinics at a cost of €8 - €10 per cat per night. Some of these cats, especially the elderly
ones, can be in kennels for some time before a suitable home is found. Financially this is just not sustainable.
Can you be a fosterer? Even
for a few months? ... to enable
us to continue our work of rescue, rehabilitation & rehoming.
We really need your help – URGENTLY.
What
does Fostering entail?
Briefly, it means giving a temporary home to a cat or kitten
until a permanent home can be found.
- A loving
foster home works wonders for cats and kittens who have experienced
abandonment and hard times and it prepares them for their new home.
- All animals
are health checked and Cats’ Aid takes responsibility for all medical
expenses.
- Every
effort is made to suit the cat/kitten to your domestic situation
and advice and backup is always on hand.
For
more information on Fostering,
please call (01) 668 3529 or email catsaid@gmail.com
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Special Appeal for homes for these 2 cats
UPDATE! (28 March 2008)
Thank you for reading this special appeal. We would just like to update you and let you know that Louise happily has gone to a wonderful permanent home where she is giving lots of pleasure and joy to her new owners who are delighted to have her in their lives, and Sylvester is in a very happy loving foster home where he will stay for the foreseeable future. Thank you to those two kind and caring families who offered these special cats loving homes.
Please click here
for further
information
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Department of Agriculture Grant 2007
Cats' Aid acknowledges, with thanks, the generous
grant of €15,000 received from the Minister for Agriculture towards our
work. This enables us to help with the ever-increasing demands
for our help, especially with regard to spaying and neutering feral
colonies.
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Launch
of New Cats' Aid Book…
Peregrine Bootle and the Cats on the Hill
by Maureen Bristow O’Connor
Cats’ Aid announces the publication of a new collection of stories
about some of our rescued cats. Author
Maureen Bristow O’Connor is a founder member of Cats’ Aid and proceeds
from the sale of the book will go directly to Cats’ Aid.
Click
here for more details, including how to order your copy.
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Cats' Aid would like to make contact with SHEAMALLA NAIR who, at
one time, lived in Kilmacud, Co. Dublin and later in Hove, East
Sussex, U.K. We know that she has now moved to the Boston area of
the U.S.A. and was making arrangements to take her cats from the
U.K. to the U.S.A. We would be interested in hearing how
this was done and would like to share her experience with
others. If anyone knows how we can contact Sheamalla, please
email Cats' Aid at: catsaid@gmail.com
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| Fostering - what's it all about?
Fostering is what we do until a home can be found for a cat. Usually the cats will be fostered by a core group in Cats' Aid but it has now become urgent to find others who can share some of the burden. What does it involve? Taking a cat into your home and giving it TLC. Cats' Aid will provide backup and defray medical and special dietary expenses. More information is available here |
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| Wonder where we are and what we do?
Cats' Aid is made up of volunteers who give of their free time to offer help to cats in need. We have no premises and foster cats in our own homes until they are re-homed. Sometimes this is not possible and the cats become "permanent fosters". In such cases we ask for sponsorship to help with medical and food bills. One of our goals is to rescue, rehabilitate and find good homes for unwanted cats on the explicit understanding that no health-recoverable cat taken in by Cats' Aid will be destroyed. You can view our other goals here. |
You may contact us with regard to homing, fostering,
sponsoring and
general enquiries through our phone line - (01) 668 3529 - or by
email: catsaid@gmail.com
Please include your name, address and
an evening telephone number, preferably a land line.
| Homing
is
where it's really at
Cats' Aid is about providing homes for
cats. How do we do that? We put photos and details of cats
on our web pages and ask you if you could give one (or more) a
home. Some cats (not all) have "terms and conditions" - for
example, brothers and sisters are better homed together. Others
may have special medical condition - deafness, blindness (one or both
eyes), missing limb or tail, yet they don't let these conditions bother
them and neither should you. Cats' Aid will call to you home to
check for suitability to apprise you of all that is involved including
any backup required. Check here for
details. |
| Because we have a number of cats that cannot, for one reason or another, be re-homed, it puts a large financial burden on Cats' Aid to provide medical help and food. This money could be put to better use if we can get sponsorship. Sponsorship involves dedicating a sum of money each month to a cat in order to offset expenses. In return we will send you a laminated card (same size as a credit card) that has a photo and some information about the cat you have sponsored. For more information, click here. |
On the 17th of November 2003, a very special lady passed away and left behind 4 cats. Read the circumstances of these cats - click here.
| Other
stuff .....
Our web site does contain "other stuff". We are not without a sense of humour and can laugh at ourselves as well - pay a visit to our humour page. We also have links to other sites and some information articles such as "How not to lose your cat" and "Settling in your new cat or kitten". We also provide a free newsletter. We have a photo gallery, a section for departed friends and we can also provide you with space to advertise lost or found cats. |
Everyone gravitates towards the cute little kitten.
But older cats have a lot of advantages that you may not have thought about.....
Read this short article to find out more that may be to YOUR advantage.
We are desperately looking for donations of money, cat food,
cat toys, cat carrier boxes, towels ,blankets, baskets ,cat beds and
cat litter. anything would be very welcome as it all helps cut down our
cost. 
