Best Friends Sanctuary - Stray/Rescue Coventry

06/08/2024

05/08/2024

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03/08/2024

If anyone has lost a kitten in CV4, please message the page.

29/07/2024

The kittens are on the last of the Royal Canin Babycat dry food.
If anyone would like to send more or a tub of kitten milk (Cimicat/Royal Canin/Beaphar) that would be MASSIVELY appreciated.

They are eating well obviously, but they were still feeding from Pia just before she died :'(
So if anyone would like to send milk powder, i know they will enjoy it.

They really need the tiny kitten dry food..
I know it is expensive :(

The 2 ex feral babies would also like some dry kitten food, they are a little older but they have been enjoying the packs a very kind lady donated a few weeks ago. (lots of small sample packs).

Sofia and Maria can be homed now with someone with previous experience. And older sensible children.
They will need to be kept in for MONTHS, possibly until next year now. So please don't ask if you aren't willing and able to make sure windows and doors are kept safely shut.

They really need a loving home, Sofia is the least scared, Maria is timid still but playful and coming round faster each day..
They will benefit a lot from a calm environment with people willing to sit and build trust and play with them.

29/07/2024

☀️HEATSTROKE☀️

⚠️🦮Please be careful taking your dog for a walk in this heat.

⛔️❗️Even a ‘quick’ walk can be too much!

🖐🏻Remember hot pavements can burn paws! If it’s too hot to hold your hand down on, it’s too hot for your pet!

🐾📞If you are concerned your pet might have heat stroke please do not delay and phone your veterinary practice ASAP for professional advice.

🐶DOGS🐶

☀️Make sure they have access to the shade if outdoors, ideally keep them inside.
☀️Have access to cool fresh water throughout the day.
☀️NEVER leave your dog in a car
☀️Use cool mats, fans, wet towels for your pet to lie on.
☀️Use pet safe suncream on exposed parts of your pets skin (tips of ears and nose). Especially if your pet has white/light coloured fur.
☀️Be careful if you have artificial grass, this can cause burns to your pets feet

🐱CATS🐱

☀️Offer them cool water and replenish frequently
☀️Ensure your cats do not get trapped in sheds, conservatory’s, garages or green houses
☀️Keep them indoors where possible, in a cool ventilated room.

🐰SMALL FURRIES🐹

☀️Ensure to keep their enclosure out of direct sunlight. Move the accommodation into an area that has plenty of shade and air circulation.
☀️Offer them marble/slate/tiles/concrete slabs to lay on. You can refrigerate these and they make great cool spots for them to sit on. Cool mats work too- however make sure they don’t get nibbled!
☀️Offer them fresh cool water to drink, and replenish regularly.
☀️Wrap a frozen bottle in a tea towel and place it in their pen, it may help to reduce the air temperature
☀️Try not to handle them/fuss them too much.
☀️Please be vigilant for cases of flystrike in your rabbits.

🦔WILDLIFE🐝
Spare a thought for wild animals. Keep bowls of water out for wildlife such as birds and hedgehogs!

Signs of heatstroke:
🥵Panting excessively
🥵Breathing difficulties
🥵Excessively salivation/drooling
🥵Vomiting (dogs & cats)
🥵Restlessness
🥵Collapse
🥵Seizures
🥵Red gums

❗️ALL animals are at risk of heatstroke, although some more than others. These include:

🐾Brachycephalic breeds (Pugs, Shih Tzu, French Bulldogs etc)
🐾Puppies
🐾Geriatric dogs
🐾Overweight dogs
🐾Dogs with thick coats
🐾Animals with underlying health conditions

🌡If you suspect your dog is showing signs of heatstroke⬇️

DO
✅Move your dog to a cool/shaded area.
✅ Gently use COOL not cold water over their body.
✅Offer them small amounts of water to drink
✅Call your vets immediately if you suspect your pet is suffering from heatstroke

DON’T
⛔️Do not cover their body with a wet towel, this will trap the heat in.
⛔️Do not force your pet to drink, as this may lead to them aspirating, and this can cause aspiration pneumonia.
⛔️Do not use COLD/ICE water, this can cool your pet down too rapidly leading to shock.

For further information please click the links below🔍

RSPCA➡️ https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/pets/dogs/health/heatstroke

RVC➡️ https://www.rvc.ac.uk/small-animal-vet/teaching-and-research/fact-files/heatstroke-in-dogs-and-cats

PDSA➡️ https://www.pdsa.org.uk/pet-help-and-advice/pet-health-hub/conditions/heatstroke-in-dogs

28/07/2024

cats!

28/07/2024

a BIG thank you!
Some of you people are fantastic!

I checked the bank account last night and got a lovely surprise.
A few people have donated.

Thank you also to those of you who have shared posts.
This can be just as valuable when your share, reaches just one person willing and able to help..
Be that offering money/time/goods/a home etc!

THANK YOU SO MUCH

🥰🥰🥰

26/07/2024

Pia has died overnight
😭💔😭

She was just a BABY herself that was forced to have babies :(

Apparently there's just over £200 in the gofundme that Raheema (who took her in to stop her being bred from) set up.

Unfortunately, it was too late- it hasn't paid out yet anyway and wouldn't until early next week.

I thought it would be too late by Monday+ so was going to try to get an appointment at a vet this morning.

This is the reality of having no funds, no support, no one willing to send emails/apply for funds, email companies to request support with food and litter donations.

And sadly, this is what happens when no other rescue WITH funds (but no space) are willing or able to take a cat like Pia.

MAYBE if my trolls (one who alerted me to the first colony and begged me to help them when other rescues in Coventry didn't bother for over 10 MONTHS-blaming covid and monitored them all breeding and dying!) hadn't spread lies about me to rescues, helped along by a local CHARITY that spends donated money on herself! and doesn't feed her animals every day because she "can't afford it" causing them to be ill, then both of them getting their heads together with another three rescues out of the area who collectively have committed a CRIME against me...then we'd still be getting a tiny donation of the HUGE amount donated by zooplus monthly!
Which would have meant MY money and all donated money could have been spent on VETS BILLS, not food and litter!

Shame on all involved in this.

To every rescue - believing a drug addicted drink driver, a lazy, greedy charity, a rescue that kills more animals than they save annually and has NEVER met me! AND has been messaging MY supporters telling them they should donate to her instead , another charity who spreads lies spread by gossip who has never met me and had never ever spoken to me UNTIL i messaged her about the abuse she was spreading to my new supporters, a rescue who had never met me, never spoken to me and REFUSED to be honest when i confronted them about finding out they had also spread rumours started by their "friends".
And to the ones LYING about having no mass food donated that they are SUPPOSED to share out to people/rescues (great or small) that NEED it!

WELL DONE TO ALL OF YOU for ensuring i am struggling financially and when there's an urgent vet trip needed i have to WAIT for funds to come in (while being slated for asking for help LIKE THEY ALL DO DAILY!) THIS IS YOUR FAULT.
Be proud that you have caused Pia to not be able to go for xrays and scans and whatever she needed IMMEDIATELY...and no one would take her , some possibly because of the LIES told!

CAT LOVERS?
No...you are not.
GLORY HUNTERS/EGO MANIACS/SPITEFUL?
YES you are!!!!

I am obviously seething.

Please don't glorify rescuers, especially a LOT of cat rescuers..
The bullying is DISGRACEFUL and literally ILLEGAL

I am not going to disclose the crimes against me/my home (YET)
But believe me that more than one CHARITY was behind them!

But charities are honest right?
haha...if you all only knew!!!
Donated food rotting YEARS past it's best before date in lock ups, animals stolen-yes, even by charities! Bullying, lies, breaching GDPR LAWS! and so on and so on.

RIP Beautiful PIA.
I am so sorry you were failed.
By so many people, including me, but mine wasn't for the lack of trying/fighting)
Babies are now ORPHANED.

Thank you to the wonderful people who chipped in and TRIED!

Hopefully the gofundme money can be used to pay for her cremation....

26/07/2024

Ginny has an appointment tomorrow for his (hopefully) last bottle of GS/FIP meds..
They want to do a blood test to check his progress/response to treatment.
The bottle of meds is £260+
The consultation is £40+
The blood test is £109
They also want to do one or two other tests to make sure the dosage is right etc..
I have paid a 50% deposit on the meds which has wiped me out until pay day.
His fundraiser is way short of the total estimated for treatment..
I don't think he's going to be able to have the blood test due to finances, so they may refuse to prescribe meds...
At the moment EVERYTHING is just money,money,money (OUT)

Please help if you can.

Every month i have less and less to work with financially..
Even with my wonderful handful of amazing supporters. :'(

I'm not a quitter and i won't be bullied into stopping neutering cats and helping where i can.

But with no rescues willing/able to help out with vet bills/food/litter these days, my money just will NOT stretch as far as it used to!

I ALWAYS paid all the bills myself, the only exceptions were when Pip and then Sooty needed specialist appointments/treatment.
But since being chronically ill, i just don't have several hundred per month to pay for everything (mainly medical help).

Some rescues are criticising me for asking for financial help, but these are the rescues who have fundraisers asking people to pay for LAND and vehicles for them! While paying wages out of funds.
ALL I'm asking for is help with paying the vets and sometimes help with food and litter...

Sadly I'm not a miracle worker and don't have money trees in my garden. :'(

Thanks for reading...

Halifax
12877767
11-06-56
(the ANIMALS separate account-NOT mine)

https://paypal.me/leannecordner?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GB

25/07/2024

25/07/2024

URGENT
PLEASE SHARE

An emotional story about a beautiful and loved kitten who needs all the help and fund… Raheema M needs your support for Need funds for a very sick kitten ASAP

24/07/2024

COCKATIEL
EMACIATED AND BALD FOUND IN COVENTRY
PLEASE PM THE PAGE IF YOU THINK THIS IS YOUR BIRD....

AREA WILL BE DISCLOSED LATER
AS BIRD COULD BE FROM ANYWHERE IN OR AROUND COVENTRY.

PHOTO PROOF/PROOF OF KEEPERSHIP WILL BE REQUIRED

24/07/2024

Please share this post, this lovely lady (who deserves shares because she's a vet nurse. so cares about and helps our friends) isn't getting anywhere near enough shares!
She is raising money and awareness after her lovely son was taken way too soon.
This is one of those charity causes where you get something in return for your donation!
:D
Win Win for everyone

24/07/2024

This is Pia
Pia is ill.
Pia needs a vet TODAY.
I have ZERO money in the account.

No other rescues have space/have responded.

Pia is not breathing well, she is pulling at her mouth as if something is stuck, but there's nothing in her mouth, so it must be something else.

She may need an xray or a scan.
I don't know ANY vets who will treat for free.
I got her spayed after she was being passed around via a chat.
Her previous human tried to give her babies away at FOUR WEEKS old by lying and saying Pia had "gone missing"...

With NO MONEY , getting her spayed was all i could do.

THIS IS URGENT......

please share
vets bill needed or a decent rescue space!!!!

ASAP

her kittens are still nursing and are 7 weeks old.
THEY NEED THEIR MUM ALIVE :'(

halifax-Leanne Cordner
12877767
11-06-56

20/07/2024

PLEASE tag a friend or family member looking to adopt a cat!
Or send this post to them.

I will post photos ASAP, but i have a female tortie AMAZINGLY sweet and friendly needing a home IMMEDIATELY, chipped, neutered, flea and wormed and ready to go NOW!
If she does not get a suitable offer within TWO WEEKS, she will HAVE to be returned to the finders garden!!!
Which is a shame as she is clearly an abandoned DOMESTIC companion animal that did not receive the respect and love she so deserved.
DON'T MAKE ME PUT HER BACK OUT....to fend for herself :'(

I also have kittens almost ready to leave mum, BUT there will be a DEPOSIT to be paid in advance for neutering on top of the adoption fee.
If you get the kittens neutered as soon as they are old enough, i will REFUND this neutering deposit...otherwise it will be used to pay your bill upon neutering.

The cats/kittens here/under BFS are not to be running the streets all night or to be homed on or near busy roads.
There are basic care conditions.

Cats, i believe also are NOT naturally indoor cats so homes that have/are willing to install cat proofed fencing or a catio will be given priority.
We do not rescue cats for them to be run over, stolen, attacked..
So please respect this.

Sooty in the "Cats for Rehoming " album is STILL waiting to be noticed.
She is a LOVELY quiet, loving girl who needs a home with GOOD QUALITY food (wet and dry) as her coat suffers if she does not have this.
She is also chipped, neutered, flea treated and wormed.

Sweep (the princess,Diva) is also still aiting after being dumoed in the city centre, she is wanting an only cat home preferably.
She may do best on her own with someone who works from home, or with a cat friendly dog for company.
She "needs" to be adored and showered with attention.
No very young children as she can be prone to getting a little over excited when playing.

Pogo needs a home with outdoor access (safely) he loves to be out and about and is SO playful and loving! He's such a wonderful boy. He could go with PomPom but she's not too fussed, haha.
Pom is very chilled and a little bit nervous but sweet and friendly.
I don't think she will cope well with dogs, especially lively ones, maybe an old dog would be fine.
She is very low maintenance and happy to just be there, she's not invasive or needy.

If you have existing cats, they will need to be vaccinated BEFORE adopting from BFS.
I would dearly love to vaccinate all the cats waiting for a home, HOWEVER, with only my money and a handful of regular small donations and having to buy ALL food and litter and getting NO concession at the vets etc, it is not possible to fund everything :(

PLEASE SHARE OR TAG...
photos will be added to comments and also the REHOMING album.

Thank you cat caring people..

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05/07/2024

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20/06/2024

It's a sad state of affairs when so called animal lovers threaten to harm other peoples animals.
And that's what has happened today.

Never in my life have i endured so many threats to myself, my home, car and my animals as in the last two years, just as a result of helping neglected/abandoned/injured/unwanted and abused animals.

Yesterday i noticed my secure fence had been breached by next doors dogs.
One dog in particular who is completely obsessed with standing the other side of the fence and growling- and now scratching/digging at it, has managed to pop open at least 3 boards of one panel.

As most of you know the full garden catio (which cost a lot of money, hassle-involving TWO workmen! and MANY hours of painting-which i did myself) was installed to PROTECT the cats here from danger.

The cats SHOULD be SAFE in it!

Unfortunately my neighbours see fit to allow their dogs to constantly be creating havoc by damaging the security, or maybe they just didn't notice the constant scratching for 2-3 days.

As a result of finding this gap (photo on phone, not yet downloaded) and being mortified at the lucky escape that was no cat going through the hole and luckily the dog in question being too big to fit through only 3 boards...I deliberated what to do in the interest of "neighbourhood relations".

I decided to post a note through the neighbours door, to avoid the confrontation and unfriendly dog (she is with me and some animals it seems).

This clearly was not received well (we haven't spoken since a previous issue with one of her other dogs chasing one of my cats down my path (only 2 of the cats here go out).

The neighbour knocked the door earlier, clearly wanted a physical fight (but i'm not 13!) and proceeded to blame the cats, dogs and me for everything!
She even brought her boyfriend round to threaten me, multiple times, by saying he would "get kids round.....", smash all the fence panels and set the dogs in to my garden!
Then she pushed her way into my threshold, threatening a bit more, before storming off with her boyfriend.
Just after this and the ensuing 999 call i made, she proceeded to take photos and video of my car and house, which was very obviously to send to others to attempt to incite people to come and cause damage.

Apparently i'm a "grass" for trying to keep the animals safe here..

The photo is the , to the point, letter which caused at least 5 threats of harm, and the second photo is of the barricade i have had to put in place while i work out what else i have to pay out for to strengthen MY fence in order to protect the animals here!

If anyone has any ideas or knows what the post and wire strengtheners are called that i have seen somewhere, so that i can google them, or if anyone knows someone who would like to donate the items i need for the solution/install the solution, PLEASE let me know.

18/06/2024

and...here's the one to the Easy Fundraising , which is great because it's FREEEEEE!!!!! :P

So it costs you nothing and it costs me nothing...BUT it helps pay the vets, for the litter, for the washing powder, for the food, for the flea treatment and wormers etc etc :/

Thanks for reading :D

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18/06/2024

Afternoon!
I keep getting people advising me to make a Wishlist... :O

I've had one for years :D

So here's the link incase anyone hasn't found it yet, hidden in the pinned post.
Thank you

15/06/2024

Craig at Casemore Animal Feeds has kindly agreed to let anyone who wants to , ring and pay for a bag of litter (not litter...but works just as well and is the same thing a lot of cat litters are made from!)

It's £12 per 20kg bag currently and I use 2 x bags a week.

If anyone would like to buy one as a one off or maybe even more regularly, please ring him (when he's open).

You can say Best Friends Sanctuary or Leanne Cordner for it to get to us.
You can do it anonymously or preferably drop me a message to let me know, so i know there is one waiting to be collected.

Thank you.

Phone number is 07814729968
(to save you being redirected to the website :) )

Casemore Animal Feeds is a local provider of pet and animal feed. Caters for both pet owners and smallholders. Supplier of fishing baits and fish food.

13/06/2024

cat carriers!
please upgrade to one like this, ESPECIALLY if you have a nervous or stray or adopted ex feral cat :O

so many fairly docile domesticated cats have panicked and escaped or vet nurses and vets haven't secured the clips properly (that's happened to me a few times with really decent vet practices even!)

your cat could end up with a really hard life for MONTHS, just because of human error or their panic :'(

🔴 IS YOUR CAT CARRIER SAFE? 🔴
If you don't have a carrier similar to the picture below we would highly recommend that you swap to a wire mesh carrier .
❌️ Plastic, fabric, back pack cat carriers ARE NOT SECURE.
We see cats go missing EVERY WEEK due to cats escaping from these types of carriers.

Your cat escaping whilst going to or from the vets is horrific but happens so often. Imagine how awful that is. Not only for your cat to go missing but worse in a place away from home, often near busy roads and they’re already poorly or not yet neutered and chipped We help lots of these cats and sadly some don't make it home. They are often hit by cars or some just never found but thankfully most are reunited. The people we have helped had used the cat carriers for years with no issues and are shocked when it happesn as never had an issue before. It’s absolutely heartbreaking to lose a cat so we recommend making this small change to try to prevent you or your cat ever suffering like this.

Plastic carriers are not safe as :
❌ cats can push the door open
❌ bottoms can fall off
❌ people can forget to fasten doors
❌ people can forget to fasten sides

Fabric carries
❌ cats can open the zip
❌ cats don't feel steady
❌ cats can chew through them
❌ not safe in a car accident

Backpack carriers
❌cats can open zips
❌ cats don't feel steady
❌ they cant turn around
❌ cats can chew through them
❌ some cats feel unsafe as very open

We understand not everyone can change their carrier as some cats are fussy. We do still use other carrier on rare occasions. As with any carrier there will be flaws with this design too but so far we find these to be the safest.

If you do still use this plastic carriers you can try to keep your cat safe by always double checking the doors and side clips. Cable tie or bungee clip where you can for extra security. Always hold the bottom of the carrier and always position the door so its against your body. I had a carrier door break on one once but thankfully I had the cats against my body so they couldn't escape.

You can buy the wire mesh type from MDC or Metal cote. Other places will sell similar ones too. There is also some that open on the side as well as the top if that's easier for you and your cat. They also sell large ones.

Metal cote sell this including vat an delivery it'd £41 or amazon sell mdc cat carrier for £48 it may seem a lot but I would rather pay a lot to keep my cat secure them deal with the heartbreak of them going missing.

https://www.metalcote.co.uk/

10/06/2024

191 dogs...
this is why adopters are gods and angels!
and fosters...

10/06/2024

I know i'm lucky to have a couple of handfuls of amazing people helping now..
But if there's anyone reading this that can/knows someone who can help also...
I went to check on the mum and babies i posted about a week or two ago.
The ones living in a greenhouse.
The ones needing guaranteed help before i can neuter mum.

The mum was being chased at VERY high speed in and out of gardens by an obviously unneutered tom.
I have never seen anything like that before.

They literally did 60 MPH past me up and over fences, across the road (multiple times!) where more than a few have been run over (probably how they were run over).

I'm guessing she left the greenhouse to prevent him harassing/attacking her very young babies..
Or maybe she "needed" to mate...which is highly unlikely due to her reaction trying to escape him!

They need guaranteed food and wormer before i can book for neutering.
If she's been attacked (mated forcefully) by this tom already-or any others, she WILL be pregnant again.

I need PANACUR GRANULES because the worms i have seen come out of some of these cats before AND after worming is unreal!
60% worm 40% f***l matter :(

Mum and babies need their own supply of food, not my cats/ferals supply being dipped in to all the time.

I can't help neuter any cats now because it just costs me too much of the sanctuary cats supplies :(

So if anyone knows anyone with a stash of Panacur granules or a stash of cat food/works at a pet food place etc..
please let them know.

There are so many cats being posted as pregnant or abandoned.
I know there's a few working their way through a lot in Coventry, but not all neuter mums...

No one is doing the colonies i do, which is why i've been doing them :(
They were either on a never never waiting list or weren't even on the radar :(

09/06/2024

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08/06/2024

upsetting

please do NOT buy animals from breeders (greeders)...
ADOPT don't shop.

This is exactly why..
You can bet your life these are ex breeding dogs, maybe the pups didn't sell.
So many people are buying dealers dogs...and they don't even know it!

Like the girl who asked for the papers for her puppy, then when they turned up, the female seller asked if she could see the puppy.. they threatened to attack her (the buyer) with a baseball bat and stole the pup back to sell AGAIN!

THIS is the horror you are funding (especially when you buy from backstreet greeders :'(

‼️ RSPCA Appeal ‼️ | Leeds City Centre: ten dogs found dead in a bag pulled from the canal, just nine months after an identical incident in the same location.

The RSPCA was contacted after a member of the public saw a large Sports Direct bag in the canal and was concerned there was an animal inside.

Animal Rescue Officer Hannah Williams attended and, with the help of West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, the bag was pulled out - and the sad discovery was made.

Two adult French bulldogs, six French bulldog puppies and two terrier puppies were found inside the bag, along with a red brick.

The dogs were found on May 20 in the canal running alongside the River Aire, by Holts Crest Way, Leeds.

Heartbreakingly, in August last year a family of French bulldogs - two adults and three puppies - believed to have been drowned were pulled from the canal, again in a Sports Direct bag.

Despite an appeal for information from the RSPCA, no one responsible for the incident was traced.

Hannah said: “It is very suspicious that two identical incidents have occurred in the same area, both families of French bulldogs and both in Sports Direct bags. It seems highly likely that these are linked.

“It's awful to think what these poor dogs went through and I'm keen to piece together what happened leading up to finding them. They didn't appear to be in ill health which makes us, very sadly, believe they could have been intentionally drowned.

“This would be an awful act of animal cruelty and we are urging anyone who has any information about this possibility to get in touch with us so we can find out what happened to these poor dogs.”

Hannah is urging anyone who lives nearby to check any cameras from around the 20 May to see if there is anyone walking French bulldogs or carrying a large Sports Direct bag.

“If anyone has any information at all which can help us, please do get in touch,” added Hannah.

If you have information, please call the RSPCA’s appeals line on 0300 123 8018, quoting reference 1268568.

https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/crime/ten-dogs-found-drowned-in-sports-direct-bag-4658291