Urban Cat Welfare Collective

10/10/2024

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11/09/2024

📆 SAVE THE DATE!! 📆

Be a part of THE event for the global unowned cat community!

Right now, we are possibly facing the greatest challenge to cat welfare due to overpopulation, that we have seen in decades.

Join us as we explore practical, pragmatic and inclusive ways to support each other in finding solutions to this global problem with our FREE International Cat Care virtual event on 13 - 14 November 2024.

This event is for everyone working with unowned cats, from volunteers, to foster carers, homing centres and community cat caregivers.

Featuring iCatCare experts, plus a fantastic lineup of special guests - registration opens 3 September and more information coming soon!

19/08/2024

Not good enough. Poor horse.

Black Caviar — one of Australia's most famous horses — has died.

She was 17 years old, and been 'retired' from racing since 2013. But there was no rest for the 'champion' mare.

Her only reward for winning millions of gambling dollars for her owners was to then be treated like a breeding machine for the rest of her life. In 10 years, Black Caviar was impregnated — a process involving applying a restraint device to her face that was tightened if she protested — an exhausting nine times, so that her foals could be used for racing and breeding.

It is reported that she developed mastitis — an infection unique to breastfeeding mothers — while pregnant with her ninth foal. She then developed a severe and extremely painful condition known as laminitis. She was killed soon after giving birth. Tragically, her foal has also since passed away.

While we and so many others mourn the loss of this beautiful horse, we also remember the many others who 'disappear' every year without fanfare or recognition. The horses and foals who are too slow, old, sick, injured or otherwise 'unviable' for racing, who we will never hear about. They all deserve to be mourned, to be known, and remembered. They all deserve to be loved for who they are, not only valued by how much gambling money their bodies can generate.

No longer a 'racehorse'. No longer a 'broodmare'. No longer a commodity. Black Caviar was a thinking, feeling individual who was worth so much more than gambling money.

And now, she is finally free.

06/02/2024

Crows are just so damn wonderful

23/01/2024

What a great idea

I saw this idea somewhere, I hope whoever came up with it gets due credit. Great idea! Our neighbor is older and lives alone so I gave her 3 colour pieces of paper for her window which faces our kitchen window. Green is for I'm OK, yellow for need help with an errand, and red for emergency. I call it Isolation Communication 🙂 Let's all look out for each other people.

♥️

Credit respective original owner

23/01/2024

FOSTER CARER NEEDED PLEASE
4 weeks min. (Longer if possible but not essential)
5 friendly 3-4 month old kittens.
Melbourne Victoria

20/12/2023

For those concerned about the raw eggs:

https://www.petmd.com/cat/nutrition/can-cats-eat-eggs

Please keep your pet safe this holiday season.

20/12/2023

Post from a local Beekeeper 🐝
“Its late, and maybe in the morning I'll delete this post, but I've just got home and for now I need to write this down.
Earlier this evening I received a message from a home owner to say they had a swarm of bees in their hedge, but they were worried about them because children had been throwing water at them.
By the time my fellow beekeeper and I arrived, what had been a beautiful prime swarm was reduced to a few hundred drenched bees, huddling limply around their queen.
I've already deleted the photos of the puddles of water, the dripping wet hedge, and the many, many dead and dying bees that hadn't been able to escape the attack; sharing those pictures serves no purpose.
We gently placed the bees that had survived into a collection box, and hopefully tomorrow, when they've had chance to dry out and settle, we'll check on them and if necessary feed them; they'll be exhausted and possibly (understandably) defensive. They've been through a lot.
Please, please, help me to educate your children, your grandchildren, your neices and nephews, your neighbours, your colleagues and your friends that a swarm of bees isn't dangerous - they're amazing creatures that are just looking for a new home.
Please don't let anyone harm them. Just call a beekeeper who will gladly rehome them.
Please help me to spread this message and hopefully save any more bees from being unnecessarily harmed” 😢
- A Sad and unhappy Beekeeper

Credits goes to the respective owner ~
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20/12/2023

Help the bees!
Sarah Kilpatrick is this ok to do?

Good to know!
To help the bees during the summer months there are fewer flowers and other food sources for the bees.
Water is also scarce and so many bees drown as they try to drink from the pools.
Grate an apple and add some water to a bowl.
The bees will be able to get the sugars from the fruit and drink the water and not drown as they can stand on the pieces of fruit.
Our bee populations are threatened, let's give them all the support we can.
Thank you 🙏 for them 🐝

08/11/2023

01/11/2023

01/11/2023

LETTERBOX DROPPING - DESEXING PROGRAM
If you can spare an hour here and there to do some desexing program letter boxing please PM me to let me know asap!!!
Targeting …….
Reservoir
Thomastown.
Footscray
Altona and Brimbank council
Melton council

We need to do this soon to get some cats Desexed before they breed !!
Please help if you can 🙏🙏🙏

14/10/2023

Ashamed to be Australian right now

29/09/2023

a BIG THANK YOU to ARC, PetBarn Foundation and their supporting suppliers for all of the cat food for our hungy rescues!!!
Petbarn
Hills Pet Nutrition
Royal Canin Australia
Animal Rescue Cooperative
Coles