Mary our donkey is now offering free rides for our cats who don't want to walk through the mud! Daisy was the first passenger and doesn't she look very regal making her way up to the field! www.manncat.com
We have a rather unusual routine going on now during the sunset. Quite a few of our residents go on an evening walk around the fields with Helen and also play some games! We have a short video for you to enjoy, they all look forward to their nightly outings now! Www.manncat.com
A little video from this morning taken of Lola and our recent arrival, Bella the little Shetland. We thought you'd like to see the improvement in Bella as we posted her story showing that we wasn't in a good state when we took her in. You can see she is now looking well and very happy, and she can give Lola a run for her money!
This is a wonderful happy ending for totally blind Walter and partially sighted Milly. Both cats have a harrowing tale to tell, Walter you may remember came to us from the Middle East about four years ago, he traveled and settled remarkably well considering he was blind, the only thing that never happened, he never became close to another cat, he was always top cat and boss cat until now! Millie came from Tala cats in Cyprus. She was homed to a very kind and caring man from Manchester, he did everything possible in a year to help Millie settle but she would not stop crying. He rang us in desperation not knowing what he do, that week we had several cats coming from Cyprus from Manchester, we offered to take Millie to give her another chance. Millie settled as soon as she arrived she was used to being in a colony of cats and once Walter met her it was love at first sight, they are always together and Walter is no longer boss cat.
Rosy arrived one a last week and the following day she had three kittens, they are all well and look very content, mother cat seem to know when they are in a safe place, and then have their kittens in safety, where there is food and shelter. www.manncat.com
We are having a very busy time at the moment, having recently taken in several heavily pregnant feral cats. Three have now given birth and here is one mother, called Rose, feeding them with Clemy looking on. Rose gave birth on Sunday and everything went well. As well as the kittens born here, we have also taken in a huge number of feral kittens and in the coming months they will all be neutered and spayed which is going to be a big, but very necessary job! Willow, another of our pregnant cats, began giving birth this morning and so far she has three babies, all looking healthy so far. We will give you an update on her in the next few days. www.manncat.com
A little video for you this morning of some kittens being very intrigued by a game on Becky's phone!! www.manncat.com
A short video of Walter, he came to us a few years ago from Doha, he is totally blind, although sometimes it is hard to believe, he is very aware of his surroundings and is able to climb a tree and also play with toys, he is now living in our new safe space, purpose built for our blind residents.Thank you to everyone who has sent food via our food bank or via Amazon it is a huge help to us. www.manncat.com
Mann Cat Sanctuary 2023
During the summer of 2023 we had this new film produced, as an information video about all the work we do here at the Mann Cat Sanctuary. We also have a second video where you can hear from some of our volunteers about their day to day roles and that is available with the following link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apn6WbcnesU
We hope you enjoy them both and please have a look at our website www.manncat.com
Lola enjoying the snow
Overnight we have had our first proper snowfall for some time and this is what we woke up to! Lola here was certainly enjoying it as you can see from this video!
A lovely little video for you today! Rosie is a recent arrival here after her owner passed away. She has taken time to settle but now as you can see she is much happier and has started playing. She also only has three legs and you can try and spot her on the Willows webcam at www.manncat.com . Our 2023 newsletter is now on it's way to the printers and Rosie is our front cover girl this year and she will also be available for sponsorship once it's published! We hope you're looking forward to reading it
Something different for a Friday evening, Goosey goose doing his best to make friends with Carl and trying his best to distract Carl from doing some fencing for us, the two pigmy goats we have are escape artists so we are hoping this new fencing will keep them in. Do take a look at our on line shop, if you are looking for Christmas presents, we have lots of lovely things for sale, all the goods have come to us free of charge so all the money goes to the cats, we also have some Christmas cards available, and a popular present for a cat lover is one of our sponsor cats. www.manncat.com
Banjo
We'd like you to meet little Banjo who is one of our deformed cats. He is interbred like many more kittens we have and we are hoping there will be a future for him but as you can see from the little film he has very poor mobility. www.mamncat.com
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our £1 day, the total was £652. It will help greatly towards the vast amount of neutering/spaying that we have lined up as we are currently dealing with an unprecedented number of feral cats and kittens and we need all the help we can get. This is our latest batch of kittens that were born here recently after we trapped the mother and she and her kittens are now safe so she can rear them in peace. www.manncat.com/donate
Our two Goats, Isaac and Jacob having some fun in the field.
Here at the sanctuary we are feeling the sadness felt around the world regarding the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Whilst out around the fields this morning we spotted our two goats, Isaac and Jacob, starting to play and we managed to catch some of it on film and thought you would all like to see it. These are two recent arrivals and they've really settled in to their new environment
A short video of some new arrivals that we have taken in on behalf of Hope Cat Colony from Cyprus, video taken by Rachel from the organisation when she visited them yesterday. They are all settling in very well. www.manncat.com
You may remember us posting about April, who came to us as a pregnant feral cat. Soon after she gave birth to these little boys who are both very large for their age! She lives in an area of the sanctuary that isn't covered by webcams and she has remained very wild, only allowing Warren into the room, however yesterday we noticed her playing with her kittens and managed to take this short film through the window before she spotted us at the end!
We've been extremely busy these past couple of weeks with feral cats there are an awful lot at the moment and all in need of urgent help. We had one a couple of days ago that had been coming into someone's garden for a food for a few nights and appeared to be injured. the people manage to trap him and when we took him to Dr. Ruth he had a long standing break to his front leg that couldn't be repaired and he had lived with for some time and then sadly when he was x-rayed further he had a couple of large tumors in his stomach. The kindest thing was to put him to sleep but had he been left to fend for himself he would have had a very unpleasant death.
With another of the colonies we are helping with, we have currently rescued a mother and her four kittens and another three cats which are in an advanced stage of pregnancy. We've rescued a further ten cats from the colony and some of these are now with our vet being neutered/spayed and will return back tomorrow.
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