Cat Action Trust 1977 is a U.K. based national charity dedicated to the welfare of feral cats. www.cat77.org.uk [email protected]
Cat Action Trust 1977 is a small national charity dedicated to the welfare of feral cats. Our policy is to help feral cats by limiting their numbers through neutering and returning to site, & by finding homes for kittens & tame stray cats. The charity is totally against killing for expediency and our motto is: “A lifeline for feral cats”. We have nine branches nationwide & we are totally funded through donations and legacies. Reg Charity 801245
Our volunteers go the extra mile every single day 🫶🏻
From the nine volunteer trustees, to every single one of the CAT77 volunteers in our branches. You do incredible work to help thousands of cats in need each year. We say “thank you” 🙏😽
Cats Matter are collating FREE and LOW COST Microchipping events all over the country.
No excuse not to get your cat chipped, the law comes in within a few weeks and it will be mandatory to have your cat (even if it is an indoor cat) microchipped.
Become a member donate, fundraise or find other ways to support our work with feral cats in the UK
THIS.....
This is what happens when people don't neuter their pet cats 😡
Totally feral young kitten, so riddled with cat flu that he/she couldn't even smell the food in the trap.
Cat Action Trust 1977 Leeds has the kitten safe now, he/she will be treated and hopefully will tame down to lead a better life than the poor mite has so far.
The genetics behind cats' coat colours are quite fascinating.
Everyone loves a "naughty Tortie" - must be in the genes 🧡🤍🖤
Tortoiseshell cats, sometimes called ‘torties’, are known for their uniquely beautiful multi-coloured coats. 😻 Tortoiseshell isn’t actually a breed, it’s a coat pattern, just like tabby. 🐈
The science behind the ‘shell 👇
🧬 Tortoiseshells have not one, but two co-dominant colour genes (black and orange) working together to make the unique coat patterns.
🧬 Most tortoiseshell cats are females because it’s the two X chromosomes that carry the genetic information for coat colour. The Y chromosome that males have, doesn’t impact on their coat colour. But sometimes a male cat can be born with XXY chromosomes, making it possible but unusual for a tortoiseshell coat!
We have some amazing news! 🙀
Last month we shared a post from CAT77 Doncaster South, who were trying to find a home for a long-term foster cat, Sally. Sally came into our care in November 2021! She was pregnant and gave birth to some gorgeous stripy kittens - "the humbugs", long since rehomed... But Sally was sadly overlooked 😥
Well, today, Sally went to her new home ☺️🙏
Be happy Sally, we know you will be much loved, and we know that your foster mum and dad will miss you lots.
Percy is thought to be around 5 years old, he’s neutered, microchipped and has started his vaccinations.
He came into care after straying for a while and finding himself with a nasty neck wound from fighting 😿 he’s become a loveable character and deserves a new start with a fantastic family.
✅ I can live with cat-savvy children over 8 years old
❌ I need to be the only cat in the home
✅ I’m not phased by a quiet, cat-savvy dog that respects my space
✅ I need a safe garden to explore, away from main/busy roads
Home check and minimum adoption donation apply. All cats and kittens adopted from us come with 5 weeks free insurance from Agria and a Pet Remedy new home kit.
We love updates about the feral cats we have rehomed. This lucky trio have really landed on their paws 🐾 They have a huge greenhouse that they can access at all hours where they have insulated beds and food. They also have acres of land to explore at their leisure. They really do have the best of both worlds. Even more importantly, they are extremely well cared for and adored by their owners. We are extremely grateful to the kind people who gave them a wonderful life 🙏
Kat and Ginge came from a lady’s garden next to a main road. The lady had kindly been feeding them but couldn’t get close. Soots came from a feral colony in LS8, again next to a busy road. We only relocate feral cats if they at risk in their existing environment as it can be a stressful experience for them. These 3 cats coped with the change really well and are not stressed in the slightest. They are extremely lucky to have found such a loving outdoor home
BLUE CROSS TRIALS FREE MICRO CHIPPING EVENT
BBC News - Charity's cat microchipping event is 'first of its kind in UK' - BBC News
The free event takes place in Exeter before cats must have compulsory microchipping from 10 June.
Someone out there must be able to give Sally the loving home she deserves? She is just a beauty 🥰
Help them share in £300,000 worth of grants
We were thrilled to hear we had been nominated for this draw, and we have been lucky enough to win £1000 in draw number 2 for 2024.
We spend a very high percentage of our donations directly on the cats because everyone at CAT77 is volunteer and we also use your donations to support our branches, all over the country.
Please nominate us for the next draw 🙏
https://movementforgood.com/
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-identifies-multiple-concerns-in-vets-market
Sarah Cardell, Chief Executive of the CMA, said:
"We launched our review of the veterinary sector last September because this is a critical market for the UK’s 16 million pet owners. The unprecedented response we received from the public and veterinary professionals shows the strength of feeling on this issue is high and why we were right to look into this.
We have heard concerns from those working in the sector about the pressures they face, including acute staff shortages, and the impact this has on individual professionals. But our review has identified multiple concerns with the market that we think should be investigated further.
These include pet owners finding it difficult to access basic information like price lists and prescription costs – and potentially overpaying for medicines. We are also concerned about weak competition in some areas, driven in part by sector consolidation, and the incentives for large corporate groups to act in ways which may reduce competition and choice.
Given these strong indications of potential concern, it is time to put our work on a formal footing. We have provisionally decided to launch a market investigation because that’s the quickest route to enable us to take direct action, if needed."
The CMA has today published its main concerns following an initial review into the veterinary sector.
Someone out there needs Sally in their lives 🙏
Most rescue work is done by women. There are men of course, but the majority are female. So, on here is our own Flora, telling it like it is, an average day for a CAT77 branch leader. It is ALL voluntary too remember!
We thank and applaud all of our fantastic branch workers (of either sex)🙏👏🙌
Action Trust 1977 Nuneaton & Hinckley
People often ask me about the day-to-day work involved in running a cat rescue. I tell them there's ever only one thing I can be absolutely certain of as each day dawns and that is that my terribly well thought out plans will not entirely go to plan. How boring would that be? Well, to be fair, sometimes the plan is only slightly altered, not actually destroyed, by a few other factors rearing their timely, or more likely untimely, heads and poking their noses in.
Today's terribly well thought out plan consisted of:
1. Setting the alarm for 6.15am to be certain to have enough time to shuffle my way round the usual and current morning delights as I had a vet visit organised.
2. Get rescue chicken Susie's breakfast ready and go stoat outside in the ancient dressing gown (high fences!) to deliver that breakfast and let her out of her cosy shelter.
3. Feed the rescue cat currently residing in a big cage in a bedroom (because we're out of space in the shelters and other foster homes).
4. Fall over Mrs Norris, the demanding, cantankerous, auld biddy cat who thinks she owns the upstairs area of the house, as she wails from above to let me know there's a very good chance she's so starved she's likely to keel over and it will be all my fault. Get her breakfast..
5. Prepare the food for the cats in the shelters and take it out in two lots.
6. Feed the poor pathetic souls who have gathered round empty feeding dishes in the utility room.
7. Clean the litter trays.
8. Jump in the shower and get ready to leave.
9. Collect the four kittens (Amelie, Phantom, Domino and Smudge) from their foster home in Ayr and take them to the vet for 9am for their Big Boy and Big Girl ops.
Flawless plans, right? Okay, so:
1. I didn't get to bed until around 2am last night, was still awake
at 5.10am, fell asleep and didn't hear the alarm and woke up 15 minutes later than intended.
2. Susie didn't come stoating out of her cosy bed as eagerly as usual and had me really worried that something was wrong. Panic. Turned out she just wanted a long lie..
3. The rescue cat in the cage - nae bother at all. What a darling.
4. Mrs Norris stared at her breakfast, decided I hadn't made enough presentation fuss, so tried to trip me up on the stairs as a punishment for my thoughtless behaviour.
5. The cats in the shelters happily played along food-wise, but somebody had missed a litter tray by several metres just to add some fun to the sight that usually faces me each morning after their overnight party. It wasn't pretty.
6. One of the house cats, Albert, had a bit of trouble choosing from this morning's breakfast menu and had to be offered alternatives before making a definite decision.
7. Decided the litter trays would have to wait until I got back from the vet, the 'accident' in the shelters having been covered in the meantime in a mountain of ridiculously expensive litter.
8. An even quicker than usual shower - time was getting on. and I really had to be in Ayr to pick up the kittens before 8.30.
9. Got the kittens into carriers and off to the vet for 9am. Wee Amelie couldn't have her op though as she's so petite compared to her three bruiser brothers and hasn't yet reached the min weight of 2kg for the op. She needs another two weeks and I'm supposed to be taking her to her new home in Glasgow on Saturday - had to take her back to the foster home.
Got home again and cleaned up the shelters and litter trays as Archie measured up the floors in the shelters before preparing new covers to go over the concrete slabs in the open play areas. Having so many cats in the shelters over the past few months it's been so difficult and time consuming to keep the slabs really clean as everything sticks to them. It's been a constant battle but daughter Alexis has come to the rescue with some long sheets of solid, smooth, sheeting (made from recycled plastic!) that will make it so much easier to keep the floors all bright and sparkly.
It was time then to go back to Ayr to collect the kittens who'd had their ops and take them to their foster home, the plan (awfy well thought out) being to call in at Pets at Home first and gather together supplies for a cat, Beezer, and drop these off to his permanent foster home after settling the kittens back down, followed by collecting some donated food from a very kind lady in Ayr before driving home. Ah, but I haven't mentioned yet that I'd had a call on Monday about a cat living feral in a rural situation who had turned up at a feeder's home having suffered some trauma that would almost certainly mean having to lose his eye. I took a trap there on Monday but he didn't appear so the trap was left with the able and trustworthy person who was feeding this poor cat. He didn't come back until today and, just as I was leaving the vet with the kittens, I had a call to say that he had been trapped! So it was get the kittens back, contact the vet who had agreed to treat him and get an appointment for tomorrow morning, head to where the now trapped cat was in an area between Ayr and Coylton, deliver the food for Beezer, ask the woman who was donating food if I could call in on Sunday instead when I'll be in Ayr to collect two of the kittens before taking them to their new home near Edinburgh, head home with an extremely whiffy unneutered male cat and a trap he'd used as a toilet.
So, those of you who are curious about the day-to-day goings on in rescue, I bet you're sorry you asked now. I'm not sure that a current well thought out plan to try and find the right person, or people, to take over the running of the rescue when I get too decrepit to carry on will have been helped by this post, but it's all worth it - honest!
I'll add a photo of a kitten, Domino, to help convince you.
Adopting a shy cat and gently winning its trust is such a rewarding thing to do. Many of our cats and kittens have a tough start, they need patience to fully trust humans. This process creates a very special bond indeed 🥰
Please consider nominating your local branch of CAT77
Enter your choice in the original post.
CONGRATULATIONS to Happy Paws Cat Rescue. Maureen Bolam nominated, her post was selected at random, so you will receiving the pretty pink MDC Exports Ltd carrier! Well done!
14th Feb '24: 17.20 GMT. STOP NOMINATING. ONLY CURRENT NOMINATIONS FROM THIS POINT WILL GO INTO THE RANDOM SELECTOR.
Love is in the air! Nominate your favourite UK rescue by writing their name in the comments. We'll randomly choose one organisation from all those posted at 4 pm on the 14th of Feb. If your nominated rescue is selected, we'll send them a pretty pink carrier on your behalf!
(https://www.mdcexports.co.uk/product/carrying-cat-basket)
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could find Tilly & Tippy a new home together? 🥰🥰
Such good news that after two years in our care, Wren and Benji have found a home. Be happy 🖤🖤 xx
AMAZING NEWS TO SHARE THIS MORNING…
Wren & Benji have finally found their purrfect furever home together 😺
We’re soooo pleased for them, and for their lovely new family 🐾
Hugo's big TV appearance! What a star 🌟
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