The Cat Welfare Group

19/11/2024

Rosie had a visit from one of her favourite people today and for a brief time had interest in toys, without any encouragement

She’s been at full speed for most of the day, so has a very tired face

We go back to the referral centre on Thursday, to see if we have a chance going forward

18/11/2024

Cats are truly amazing..

Lady T was huge before she gave birth, so we weren’t surprised that she had 4 kittens between 121 and 126g (they are around 140g tonight!)

What we were surprised about however is that she took a little break to eat lots, sleep lots and feed her babies lots…before just now, 24 hours later, she then popped out numbers 5 and 6!

Truly incredible

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We want to just remind you that you can now buy our 2025 Christmas cards and calendars by visiting our online shop

https://thecatwelfaregroup.org/shop

The calendar is a limited edition print run, so grab yours before they sell out!

** please note that although the checkout says PayPal, you don’t need an account. Just click through via the PayPal button and select ‘pay by card’

17/11/2024

This morning we mentioned that we have three pregnant queens with us

Well tonight we have just two, as the beautiful Lady Thiang has given birth to four little ones with brilliant foster mums Fiona and Jenny. Sadly one of the four was born sleeping but thankfully the other three are strong, chunky kittens and are feeding beautifully

17/11/2024

V***n and her babies all go to their forever homes this week, after the best start with foster mum Heather.

You’d think they would be the last kittens of the year, but sadly not as we still have three pregnant queens with us 🥺

16/11/2024

Rosie has learned how to to jump and to bite. Her favourite thing is a flying leap to bite me and although I’ve mastered the catch, I need to divert her attention

So this morning her caterpillar took the brunt

15/11/2024

Little lady had her ears cleaned this morning, which made her nose tickle

She also followed sounds for a short while ❤️

14/11/2024

Today has been a happier day, with some glimpses of improvement.

She found her purr for a short while, washed and groomed herself properly for the first time and appeared to have some fun running around rather than it being an episode, albeit briefly.

14/11/2024

Rosie doesn’t play with toys, she is too trapped in her own world. She is blind, so we have tried scrunchy toys, catnip toys, toys with interesting texture and toys that move with noise, but she simply doesn’t engage.

Last night I wondered if she would respond to a Happy Kitty Blanket. My own cats don’t care for catnip but they go mad for their blankets, so I wondered if Rosie may be interested. This may not look like much to you but for a good 30 seconds each time she loved it.

Our wonderful friends at Happy Kitty Blankets are once again running a Christmas offer where you can send a blanket direct to a rescue of your choice

Here’s how it works:

You can purchase a Christmas present of a Happy Kitty Blanket for a kitty cat in rescue at a discounted price of £8.20 (Usually £9.50 + £4 p&p) and you can name the rescue you’d like it to go to (we would be SO grateful if you picked us)

That’s all you need to do, they will then send the Happy Kitty Blankets off to the various rescues/charities with little Christmas cards telling them who the gifts are from.

AAAANNDDD a new addition to our Christmas offers is the TREAT A RESCUER. For £11.70 we will send a Happy Kitty Blanket to the rescue of your choice AND a luxury bar of Gatos chocolate to treat a hard-working rescue volunteer. This will of course be accompanied by a card stating who the sender is.
This offer, as well as more, can be found on their store link below

https://happy-kitty-blankets.sumupstore.com

Last orders are 6th December

13/11/2024

Our amazing friends at Happy Kitty Blankets are once again running a Christmas offer for the cats in rescue.

If you’d like to buy a blanket for a cat in care, follow the instructions on their post x

Last year when we first ran our Gift a rescue offer, we sent out over 100 Happy kitty blankets to cats in rescue up and down the country! 😻 I wonder what we’ll send this year! Orders are open until December 6th.

Here’s how it works.

You can purchase a Christmas present of a Happy Kitty Blanket for a kitty cat in rescue at a discounted price of £8.20.
(Usually £9.50 + £4 p&p)
You can even name the rescue you’d like it to go to.
That’s all you need to do, we will then send the Happy Kitty Blankets off to the various rescues/charities with little Christmas cards telling them who the gifts are from.

AAAANNDDD a new addition to our Christmas offers is the TREAT A RESCUER. For £11.70 we will send a Happy Kitty Blanket to the rescue of your choice AND a luxury bar of Gatos chocolate to treat a hard working rescue volunteer. This will of course be accompanied by a card stating who the sender is. 😻

This offer, as well as more, can be found on our sumup store link below ⬇️☺️.

https://happy-kitty-blankets.sumupstore.com

𝐂𝐚𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬! 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫, 𝐭𝐚𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐢𝐟 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐤𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬.
😻😻🐈🐈‍⬛🐈🐈‍⬛

T&c: The deadline for ordering this will be December 6th, so we have enough time to get them delivered before Christmas. You will not receive the order yourself, it will go direct from us to the chosen rescue. If you do not specify a rescue we will select one for you.

13/11/2024

Nasty brain flies 🥺

12/11/2024

Rosie has just discovered she is actually Batman

11/11/2024

The last few days haven’t been so good 🥺

She’s reverted back to how she was before the improvements. Today we decrease the steroids to one tablet and hope that she improves again

10/11/2024

Meet our latest two little girls in, Tate & Lyle

We don’t know if they were dumped, lost or abandoned.

We don’t know if they are mother and daughter or sisters.

What we do know is that they aren’t chipped. Or neutered.

We know they aren’t neutered because Tate is heavily pregnant and we think Lyle isn’t too far behind her.

We know that Tate has Heterochromia, which gives her a 40% chance of being deaf. The condition is genetic and makes it likely that her kittens will have it too, which is why we took them in despite them being otherwise healthy

08/11/2024

Sausage and Chips have both had their reconstruction surgery today and are currently recovering.

We would like to say thank you to everyone who donated, enabling us to get them the help they urgently needed and also to the incredibly selfless Provetsurg vet and team at the veterinary practice. Thank you for giving them the chance.

Poor sausage has a nasty infection and it is very much early days for them both, so we will update further over the weekend. Please do keep them in your thoughts

We had to go ahead with the surgery before we raised all of the £5000 needed and are currently £500 short of the target. If you can spare even just £5 for them, we would be so grateful

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/sausageandchips

** remember to change the additional donation to zero as we do not get that amount, it goes to Just Giving

Or direct;

Account name: The Cat Welfare Group
Account Number: 73934551
Sort Code: 20-79-31
Thank you so much x

08/11/2024

Another small improvement today

In the first video Rosie has brain flies, but for the first time responds to my hand moving on the mat in front of her and even follows the sound

And then she fell asleep on my lap

07/11/2024

** Update on Sausage and Chips **

Sausage and Chips, our two young kittens who were both born with Atresia Ani, rare congenital condition in cats where an abnormal connection has formed between the re**um and vagina/pen*s. They only have one opening where there should be two.

Today they saw Sam from Provetsurg and the plan is for them to have reconstructive surgery tomorrow.

That surgery will be £2,500 each kitten. Thanks to your amazing generosity, with Gift Aid, we have raised enough for one surgery but we had to get them seen urgently, so we are asking if anyone can help with the smallest of donations. We simply MUST give them a chance, just like Rosie, so need to raise a further £2500

Please can you help us to help them? If you can spare even just £5 for them, we would be so grateful

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/sausageandchips

** remember to change the additional donation to zero as we do not get that amount, it goes to Just Giving

Or direct;
Account name: The Cat Welfare Group
Account Number: 73934551
Sort Code: 20-79-31

Thank you so much xx

07/11/2024

Oh my darling Rosie

Last night she connected and even climbed on my lap, for a full two minutes

Usually her room is totally trashed each morning, because of her mania. I checked the camera this morning and everything was as it should be, so I thought I’d take a video as I went in to record any possibility of her connecting again.

She reacted to my voice, which hasn’t happened before. She came to me.

It’s only a tiny improvement in the grand scheme of things but this is what just happened.

As soon as her audible click started, and her brain flies were there, I knew I had lost her again, but instead of then bombing off, she stayed

06/11/2024

** URGENT APPEAL **

Once again we urgently need your help

Meet Sausage and Chips - two young kittens who were both born with a**l defects, they only have one hole where there should be two.

Atresia Ani is a rare congenital condition in cats where an abnormal connection has formed between the re**um and vagina/pen*s

They are both half the weight they should be - Sausage is 16 weeks and weighs just 840g, Chips is 12 weeks and weighs 780g. For perspective, the Wind In The Willows kittens who today went to Sara, are 6 weeks old and weigh the same.

We need to raise funds to send them to a referral centre urgently, in the hope that surgery is an option for them. We simply MUST give them a chance, just like Rosie

Please can you help us to help them? We are so mindful of the incredible help you gave to give Rosie her chance, we raised her funds in just two hours thanks to you, and now we are saying that we need to do the same again. But the alternative for them is to be put to sleep without trying. We can’t do that. If you can spare even just £5 for them, we would be so grateful

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/sausageandchips

** remember to change the additional donation to zero as we do not get that amount, it goes to Just Giving

Or direct;
Account name: The Cat Welfare Group
Account Number: 73934551
Sort Code: 20-79-31

Thank you so much xx