14/09/2025
A happy story with a sad background
This innocent little baby almost died because people do not sterilise their cats.
This tiny kitten was found in the bushes around Windhoek (it was lucky, it is safe with Snout Project Namibia now, check the end of this post).
Sadly, this is something that happens far too often.
There are two ways how the kitten could have gotten into the bush:
😔It was born there by an unsterilised homeless mother.
The mother struggles to survive without a safe home, she is constantly on the run, always hungry and thirsty. She has to give birth somewhere, unprotected. Because of the dangers she has to move her kittens. She might have lost this one.
NOTE: before you pick up a kitten always make sure the mother is not coming back (unless the kitten is in danger).
🥺The kitten could have been dumped in the bush.
Unsterilised cats give birth to so many kittens, that people just get rid of them (often, of the mother, too...😔).
To blame are of course, humans.
There are three types of these humans:
▶️ those who do not sterilise their cat because they do not consider it necessary, because they will just give the kittens away for free.
▶️Those who do not want to sterilise for some reason:
-do not want to spend the money (it would be much cheaper if they had adopted their cat from a rehoming organisation),
-want their cat to have at least one litter (there is absolutely no reason for this. It is backward thinking because it is proven that sterilising BEFORE the first litter is best)
-want their children to witness the miracle of birth (they don't let them experience the miracle of death when other kittens and cats get killed because they find no homes)
-want to breed offspring from their cat (if they'd keep all the offspring, it would be their problem, but usually they make it the problem of others when they give the excess kittens away)
-don't want to sterilise their cat when she is pregnant (we say better do that, than kill kittens and cats that have been born already)
-got a for free kitten and got totally surprised by this kitten having kittens when she is 7 or 8 months old. They got the for free kitten e. g. as a toy for the child because it was easy but never gave any thoughts to the sterilisation or vaccination.
- etc etc
▶️The third type are those who got their cat somehow but their income is far too low to ever be able to afford to have the cat sterilised (these people can be helped by wonderful organisations like Have-a-Heart Namibia)
If we don't want kittens to die in the bush, there is only ONE SOLUTION:
STERILISATION (spay/neuter, fixing, reg maak).
When you ADOPT your cat/ kittens from a responsible organisation, the donation you give (aka adoption fee) covers sterilisation, vaccination and more for less than half the price you would pay at the vet normally.
This kitten is safe and in best hands
Thank you to the amazing Snout Project Namibia for taking care of this kitten. It is in the very best hands with you. Snout Project fosters unfortunate kittens like this one and rehomes them responsibly when they are old enough (usually 8-12 weeks).
