Kapiti Cats is on the look-out for our missing traps and crates we've loaned out. They may be lingering in a forgotten corner of your garage after borrowing it from us to trap stray or lost cats or to bring your fur baby home in after adopting. Please can you check? It happens to the best of us. Without them it is a lot harder to continue to do what we do. Thanks friends!
Tomorrow at Animates in Coastlands between 10:00 and 1:00 you can find Kapiti Cats with all these fur babies and possibly a couple others who are ready for their forever homes. If you've been thinking about adopting a kitten now is your chance. These beauties have been desexed microchipped and have had their first immunisation. We require a minimum adoption fee of $200 to go towards paying some of the fees associated with their care. We will also be fundraising outside Animates with a sausage sizzle which has been made possible through a very generous donation from Animates who have not only offered us the space in their store to run this adoption event but have also provided the sausages, bread and are even providing the BBQ. Further sponsorship was kindly given by our local Pak n Save.
Come and see us for a kitten cuddle and a sausage and learn more about what we do to help the feral and abandoned cats and kittens in our local community.
More kittens up for adoption this Saturday at Animates between 10 and 1. Come see us even if just for a cuddle with any of these cuties or support is by buying a sausage so we can continue to rescue and help kittens like these and their mamas to stop the cycle of breeding.
Here's the second instalment of our adoption lineup this Saturday at Animates Paraparaumu. Cuteness overload with Emily and Elfie.
All info is in their bio.
Over the next 24 hours we will be introducing our kittens up for adoption on Saturday the 17th of February at Animates Paraparaumu between 10 and 1. Here is a first taste of the adorable fluffballs looking for their forever homes.
All kittens come desexed, vaccinated and have had their first immunisation. We require a minimum donation of $200 which covers only part of the costs we incur while we look after them, socialise them and get them ready for adoption.
Please share our post with anyone you know looking to add a furry member to their family.
So this just happened. 8 week old Lucky managed to take a video selfie as I was reaching for my water bottle. Just one of the many highlights you get to experience when you foster. (sound on, his purr is magnificent)
Meet Dexter. His fav game is with newspaper balls. Maybe he’s part dog as he loves to bring them back, waiting patiently for the next ball toss.
He’s ready to go to his furever home so if you know someone who is looking for a super smooch and fun guy let us know!
He’s been fixed, had first vac and microchipped. An adoption fees applies.
Available for adoption this week! Please PM here for adoption appointments or contact Jacqui on 027 5344731.
These kittens are between 10 - 14 weeks old and are all desexed, microchipped and have had their first vaccination.
Trying to get into the room first thing in the morning is not exactly easy.. they pretend to be happy to see you but all they really want is actually break out of the room. 😸
Foster babies got too hot in the Kitten Kingdom with this warm weather we've been having. The cheap and cheerful solution has been to build a screen to cover the sliding door opening so that we can have some airflow and let these and future temporary guests have a connection with the outside.
3 of these babies and some others will be available for adoption soon.
Jethro here,
This is my favorite song. It's my jam.
I moved rooms yesterday and now I'm in with the ladies Olivia and Sally Biscuits. So far it's good but Mum won't let me out into the rest of the house yet.
Got some serious smooches in though and killed a fluffy orange ball on a string. Don't think it'll be back to bother Mum in a hurry.
*Jethro was living wild and (as an undesexed adult male) was giving a families cat a hard time so they got hold of him (I'm not sure how..) and dumped him at a local vets along with some colorful language. We think he is around 3-4years old. Despite being in rough shape when he arrived he is now doing really well physically and is an absolute smoocher.
He has been desexed but because he was an adult Tom all the extra testosterone caused his adorable puffy cheeks which will stay 😻
**Jethro is available for adoption or foster-to-adopt. His adoption donation is $80
Sweet Molly doing so well in her new home! Her new name is Domino, and is settling in with her new fur brother too.
We just love getting updates from families!
Our kitties avaliable for adoption!!!
Felix - tabby younger boy, the biggest of his litter and super social!
Felix and his stray mamma were rescued from under someone's house in Paekakariki.
Molly - torti teenaged girl, timid but loves affection, purrs at the drop of a hat.
Molly's Mum took her and her sisters into a caravan and the lady who lived there rescued them from the stray life!
Apricot - black and white teen boy, a very calm and steady boy, he is a creature of habit who picks his favorite spot and sticks to them. He let's my 2 year old pat him!
Apricot was rescued from rural Te horo, he lived in the bush before he was trapped.
All of these kittens are desexed, vaccinated, microchipped, wormed and flead.
They all get along really well with other cats and each other.
*$180 for young kittens, $130 for teens, if you adopt a pair we take $30 off. All adoption donations go towards allowing us to help more kittens
💜 Kittens for adoption 💜
We have a very special sibling pair of teenage kittens ready for adoption.
Apricot (black and white boy) and Kassandra (tabby girl) are around 8 months old.
They would really love to be adopted together 😻🤞
Kassandra is very very smoochy, if you want a cat that is obsessed with you she is the dream. Apricot prefers to sit back more and takes longer to warm up to new people but has a purr like a motor.
These are last chance kitties, they had no other options other than us. They are also older kittens so will be harder to find homes but are sooo deserving of a loving family.
Please help these guys find a home by liking, commenting on and sharing this post ❤️
Beautiful Luna and Milly!
A week ago Luna (little black kitty) was still attacking. It is a month since we rescued her from Waikanae. Her brother Alpha socialised very quickly but sweet Luna just didn't. She hissed and attcked. So when Alpha came back for adoption Luna came too for some intensive socialising! Look at her now! Purring up a storm. She can even be picked up now!
The beautiful torti is Milly. She (and her two sisters Molly and Mandy) came to us from quite far away, no rescue in their area would help. A kind woman desexed them and bought them here. Milly has never swiped or even hissed, she is a gentle soul but oh so anxious. She flinches when I come close. She is making progress though and we have had lots of purrs today!
*not ready for adoption but would consider foster-to-adopt for Milly
😻 Teenage kitten Potato 😻
Potato cuddle bug movie. Ready for some lucky family.
She is still we a bit shy on first meeting but has been responding well to all her visitors!
💖 desexed, vaccinated, wormed, flead, microchipped
💖 $130 adoption donation to go towards her vet costs
Potato started her life at the local rubbish tip, she is well and truly tane and ready for a family of her own now!
Spud started off her life at a rubbish tip in Paraparaumu.as an older kitten she didn't have many options so after trapping her we poured time and love into her and she has transformed into the snuggles kitten I have ever met.
The only thing she is missing now is her forever home - could it be with you?
Update on the Cookie litter!
11.30pm - I weighed them and they had lost weight 😢 It has been a massive amount of change for them all and they were otherwise looking good and all feeding from Mumma Cookie so I decided to give them until morning before starting to supplement with bottle feeds
8am - the (older) kids helped me to weigh them all and they had all gained at least 4grams 🥳🥳🥳
9am - a fabulous foster picked them up! They will live at her house for the next few months. I sent them with all the supplies for bottle feeding in case they need it. Their foster Mum is going to weigh them again tonight to check they are still doing OK then daily from tomorrow.
*featured in this video is adorable Shortbread
Hermione's tameness switch has gone on!
She went from hissing to purring within an hour 🙀💕
Poor Hermione has had a rough ride. She was the last of her litter trapped at almost 17weeks old.
😿 Week one: she was in a crate in the end bedroom, she literally hung from the walls and ceiling of her crate if I was nearby.
😿 Week two: she moved to a crate in my dinning room for 2 days then started showing symptoms of giardia, tested positive then moved back to her bedroom crate.
😾 Week three: still recovering from giardia, being in the end bedroom really slows down the socializing process. Her sister Hagrid also tested positive and was pretty tame at this point. I thought putting them together in the bedroom crate would help Herminone see we were safe but instead she started attacking my hands if I tried to pat Hagrid
😺 Week four: she moved back to her dinning room crate (separate from Hagrid), being around us all day helped and she stopped climbing the walls of her crate when we did her food and water
😻 Week five: started sniffing my hands voluntarily, stopped hissing when I walked past and eating treats from my hand. Then 2 days ago a new volunteer Claire joined team Minx and within an hour of meeting her Hermione was accepting full pats and purring 🙀😻🙀😻
Would you like to know more about how we socialise our wildies?
😻 An update on Nugget! 😻
My goodness I love this cat. There is definitely going to be tears when it is time to give him up!
Nugget lived his first year as a wild cat at the tip, he is almost 3 months into socialisation.
He is now allowed in the whole house but not outside. He loves pats in small rooms where he feels safe like the kitchen or the bathroom but this video taken tonight is the first time has let me pat him in the lounge 😻😻😻😻
There are few things as rewarding as taming a wild cat. An 1 year old adult cat like Nugget can take anywhere between 3 to 6 months to be ready for a home. Sometimes longer.
It isn't hard, I have a system now 🤣 but it takes time and patience.
Nugget will hopefully be ready for a home of his own (aka adoption) in about a month. He will only be able to go to a home that has another cat, he is very social with other cats. I would say he is in a full on bro-mance with our cat Cutie-Pie but it is very one sided. Nugget just loves to follow him around and smooch him.
*the cat at the start of the video is Twenty-Three, we are fairly sure she is Nuggets sister. She is 6 months into socialisation but due to expensive dental issues and stealing our hearts she will never be up for adoption
