The Cat Welfare Group

22/07/2024

Last week we told you about Lily, our grand 22 year old girl, who was with us after her owner sadly passed away

Just look at Lily in her new home! Seeing her play is wonderful but seeing her lay her scent on the furniture made our hearts burst

Happy Monday everyone!

21/07/2024

20/07/2024

We're here talking all things cats at the Fareham Community Showcase. Come and find us by the bandstand and say hello!

19/07/2024

He’s home 🧡🧡

18/07/2024

We love the work that Hampshire Hedgehog Rescue Collective do for all of our little prickly friends

Below you can see details of their fantastic raffle, raising vital funds to continue their work

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/AEzJKwBRJ3xpHSfW/?mibextid=WC7FNe

16/07/2024

Little Albert visited our wonderful wizard Clare this evening

To be able to add laser and chiropractic treatment to those we care for is so important and we just love her for it!

16/07/2024

Albert’s external fixing is off!

15/07/2024

Today is the day Albert has his X-rays to see if the break has healed and if he can have his fixing removed

14/07/2024

Meet Lilly, this grand lady is 22 years young and we were asked to help as her owner has sadly passed away. We had agreed that it just wasn’t possible to take any more cats into care, for both foster space and financial reasons. But how could we say no? Of course we couldn’t!

Lilly received a full health check with blood tests at Heathside Veterinary Surgery yesterday, tomorrow she will be back with them for a pamper session to remove matted fur, a bath & manicure (and a not so glamorous urine test).

All our golden oldies receive the very best care and treatment, they may not have years ahead of them but still deserve love, respect and the very best we can possibly give them. We wouldn’t be able to do this without your continued support, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you x

PS Please excuse her grubby face and legs, very much a work in progress 🥰

12/07/2024

We are sorry that we have been quiet for a few days

We weren’t sure if this little family were going to make it. But thanks to some incredible veterinary care and the love of fosters Heather and Fiona, just look at The Flower Pots today

12/07/2024

We’re here today and would love to see as many of our as possible. A great way to chat about what we do and to express our thanks for your support, oh and obviously chat about cats!

We have our Charity day today alongside Leons Fruit And Veg Locksheath Village

Please come and support your local charity 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
Barnardo's
Charity Jams
CoppaFeel!
The Cat Welfare Group
Abby's Heroes
The Silver Lining Brain Charity

09/07/2024

** URGENT APPEAL **

Meet Bill, Ben and W**d

Yesterday we took a call from Midhurst Vets who had three tiny feral kittens handed in, found huddled together in a flower-pot. They were wet, freezing, covered in flystrike and maggots. One has an open wound from the maggots

The team at the practice warmed them up and cared for them tirelessly all day, continually removing the flystrike and maggots. Last night they were transferred to us then straight into the care of our OOH practice who have spent the night doing the same. They are very sick indeed, one has a dangerously low temperature and one has a high temperature

This morning they will be transferred to our day surgery and we have to do everything we can to save them

We estimate that by the end of today their care will be close to £1000, but we have to give them a chance so once again we are appealing to our friends

If you can help us to help them, we would be so grateful. Our summer campaign sits at £1988 as we post this, but that has long since been spent on cats in need. We really need to reach £3000 today

https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/summer24

Or direct;

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

Thank you so much

06/07/2024

** LOOKING FOR OWNER **

9YR old female Sphynx, found in her harness in St. James Close, Shirley Southampton

Telephone number on chip is not in service. Chip details include Natterjacks Vet in Bournemouth but they are not open until Monday

If you recognise her please call Vets Now on 023 8043 7999 - option 2. This is an out of hours practice only available after 7pm

05/07/2024

** OWNER FOUND **

URGENT APPEAL - MUM CAT SEPARATED FROM KITTENS

This young girl has been involved in an RTA and when examined, her mammary glands are full. She has kittens somewhere and we need to find her owner

She was found on Allington Lane, Fair Oak SO50

Please share and help us to find her family

If she’s yours, please call us on 0300 365 4 999

04/07/2024

Five months after coming into care pregnant, after almost losing her life giving birth and after the biggest amount of love from her foster homes along the way, tonight Betty is settled into her perfect forever home.

Adoptions are happy and sad in equal measures. Happy because our work is done and a forever awaits the little ones, sad because we become attached to every soul who comes into our care. We love every adoption but this one is that extra bit special for some of us.

Happy forever special girl

03/07/2024

6 weeks later, Ron, Ginny, Fred & George

02/07/2024

A little update on Cedric, from Clare who has been doing his post-surgery laser and adjustments.

She really is a wonderful human and we are so lucky that she loves what we do and wants to help us and all those we care for

01/07/2024

Within the charity we have to think of new cat names most days, which is really difficult, just as it is choosing the right name for your own pet

48 hours after getting his name, Arthur is now Albert, named in honour of Lorri’s Frank, whose full name was Francis Albert

We’d love to see your babies and know how you came to decide on their names

30/06/2024

We’ve had a little chat

We don’t think he’s an Arthur

He’s Albert

30/06/2024

Do you love the work that The Cat Welfare Group does? Would you like to help us save more cats and kittens like Arthur?

We are looking for enthusiastic volunteers to join our Events Team.

No specialist skills are required, just a love of cats, the ability to attend some local event days each year and the willingness to be part of a small, friendly and supportive team.

The Events Team helps us to publicise the work of The Cat Welfare Group, promotes ‘adopt don’t shop’, offers some great items for sale that cat lovers can spoil themselves or their pets with, and lets people know how they can support us.

If you would like to join the Events Team, or just find out more about the role please contact us at [email protected]

Leave a contact number and we will be in touch!

29/06/2024

Arthur’s purr and happy feet

29/06/2024

Yesterday Arthur met the amazing Claire from CEF Veterinary Chiropractic for his first laser treatment on his leg 🧡

28/06/2024

There is a grand old star in the sky tonight

A post that none of us expected to be writing and every letter hurts to type

In the early hours of yesterday morning Oogway had a seizure and was taken straight to our out of hours vet for emergency treatment, before then being transferred to Heathside.

He had a whole raft of tests..I say ‘he’, it turns out Oogway is a girl, the most basic of tests really, but I guess because of the pitiful weight and painful joints, he barely moved from his bed so when we were told he was a boy we had no need to check

We were encouraged that she had gained 400g and was now 2.5kg, but she was so weak and flat and her anaemia was a real worry.

She returned home last night to her wonderful foster mum and dad, Nadia and Toby, but just before midnight she had another seizure, closely followed by another so was taken straight back to the out of hours team where she was made comfortable.

This morning it was obvious that her body just couldn’t cope anymore, she was just too frail and couldn’t get back the strength she lost through neglect and this afternoon she fell asleep peacefully.

Nadia and Toby loved her wholeheartedly and are of course broken to lose her. We can’t thank them enough for loving our darling old girl and assuring she had warmth, compassion and care right up to the end.

We spent just over £2000 trying to save her and would spend double that if it meant she a quality of life in her final months. But sometimes we can’t reverse what has already been done and that is so truly hard to deal with.

Sleep tight darling girl, shine bright and we are so very sorry xx

28/06/2024

Arthur has had a comfortable first night and you’d never know that he had surgery yesterday

He has killed Mr Mouse several times and his most fun thing to do is roll over in his litter tray so he comes out looking like a Ferrero Rocher

27/06/2024

** WARNING - POST CONTAINS IMAGES OF SURGERY**

Arthur has had his surgery with the absolutely awesome Provetsurg today and will be home with us this evening

I think that sometimes we take for granted the work that veterinary teams do - this post really shows you just how incredible the surgeons and nurses are. Any surgery is amazing but on such a tiny kitten, it’s mind blowing

Our heartfelt thanks to the surgeon and Sam and the team at Vets4Pets Maidenhead. You are all heroes x

27/06/2024

Meet our latest little family

They were found in an electricity substation yesterday in the sweltering heat, with foxes circling them.

The staff did the right thing and monitored them, to give mum a chance to be seen but after many hours she wasn’t and it was too dangerous to leave them, if the heat didn’t kill them then the foxes would, so they came in.

They are roughly 5 days old but are the size of newborns. They were dehydrated, full of fleas and absolutely filthy, with mud caked up their noses making it difficult for them to breathe.

This morning they have full bellies and are clean and safe.

We now have to hope that mum is seen so that we can trap her

Meet Edison, Teslar, Watt and Bill

** no adoption enquiries

26/06/2024

Meet Arthur

He is 5/6 weeks old, has a broken leg and tomorrow he will be having surgery to save it

He’s a very sad reminder of breeders who let their cats have kittens so they can sell them but don’t have/won’t spend the money for their veterinary care. He would have been put to sleep if we didn’t help.

26/06/2024

At the beginning of May we introduced you to Nutella, who came to us after she had birthed one live and one sleeping kitten 24 hours before and she needed an emergency c-section. She had been left too long and sadly there were a further two little ones sleeping and one saved.

Because she had milk for five kittens we introduced another newborn orphan and they became the blended family Toast, Croissant and Crumpet.

Just look at them now!

25/06/2024

Yesterday Cedric had his surgery at Vets4Pets Maidenhead with the incredible team from Provetsurg

He had a compound tibia fracture, which has now been stabilised with plates and screws, whilst the fibula fracture will repair itself.

He recovered well post-surgery and, as you can see in the video, last night he had a little time out of his crate for tummy rubs!

Right there is what you allow us to do and our heartfelt thanks go to the entire team who cared for him yesterday and of course to each and every one of you who enabled us to save him from being put to sleep.