Westie Cat Support Services

09/01/2025

Adoption Update.
Towards the end of last year Claire Bear was adopted into a loving home that included new fur and human siblings and two wonderful pawparents. Such a pleasing result for the little girl considering the miserable existence she had on the street when she was trapped and taken into care two years earlier.

30/12/2024

TNRR, who woulda thought? With a problem that won't go away with more regulation as our politicians seem to believe, helping semi owned and unowned cats via such an initiative is an interesting strategy. Well done RSPCA NSW. There's a few other councils that could be as proactive as this.

25/12/2024

Merry Christmas from Westie Cat!
Pictured is Olivia Skunk who was rescued when a poorly kitten, the runt of the litter, from a backyard situation. While her siblings went into an adoption program, we kept Olivia back to get her healthy and socialised. She's now a cheeky, sweet chunka and will go up for adoption soon.
🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄

17/11/2024

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This is important. Please share. Your cats life may depend on it.

Recently the NSW Government quietly posted an inquiry into Cat Population management. There was very little information released except a one page terms of reference.

If you care about cats, you cant let this go unnoticed and you should respond, and think not only of yourself or your cats, but the other cat owners and people who are not as fortunate as you.

2 years ago a man in North NSW happily caught his neighbors cat, he posted a video online of him trapping then drowning the cat in a wheelie bin. He posted the whole thing delightfully on social media.

This is what happens when people see words like "cat curfews".

This inquiry will have a deluge of responses from people who want to harm cats. Though the enquiry likely means well, and is seeking community response, these can also be a magnet for people who would happily take your cat and drown it.

If this is done wrong, the pounds and shelters will be overloaded (as will we) with cats, and tens of thousands will die.

So we encourage you to have your say, and expand the brief beyond curfews and into other important areas of community,

- The legalisation of TNR Programs, and support for the rescuers that focus on reducing colony sizes.

- Implementation of funding support for rescuers that run desexing programs.

- Ways to take assertive action with cat hoarding without punishing the cats.

- Improvements to education and support in areas that have religious, socio economic or other drivers that bring population challenges.

Please make your submission directly to the NSW Government here. https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/inquiries/Pages/inquiry-details.aspx?pk=3011 -submissions

We dont recommend doing this via an aggregator, local member or council as you need to be sure that your voice is heard, directly.

Please share this post,

18/09/2024

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek recently declared war on wild (feral) cats (yes, again) in her just released updated 10 year feral cat action plan that includes a threat abatement plan. There's only one problem, she's included community cats and owned cats in it. Lacking any understanding of the cat situation in urban and peri-urban areas, despite receiving community feedback from rescues and TNRers on the ground in various public consultations, she nonetheless has, with a lot of help from lobby groups, conflated urban cats apparent native animal gobbling and wants to bring in mass culling and stricter cat ownership rules. Rules that will be pointless, not policed nor enforced and will target the wrong people and cats. But will impact on the well-being and safety of owned and community cats.

Through her irresponsible rhetoric (and the various interest groups and media outlets who have lapped it up and promote it) she's basically given any so inclined individual the go ahead to be cruel to urban (and non urban for that matter) cats. This already goes on, but it's now thoroughly legitimised. The RSPCA thinks so too. See their press release on RSPCA Australia website.

Please sign this well thought out and on point petition.

https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-proposed-australian-mass-killing-of-stray-cats-use-humane-treatments-instead?recruiter=63411819&recruited_by_id=e983acc3-6844-43bf-94e2-53fab9602acd&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_medium=copylink&utm_content=cl_sharecopy_490214157_en-AU%3A0

17/08/2024

Today is International Homeless Animals Day 🐕🐈 And when both of my little characters were abandoned and on the streets before fate brought them into my life, it’s an important day in our family…��For Cricket, she was left in a cardboard box on a cricket oval with a broken leg before being found by a caring family. ��While for Buzzy, he was found wandering the streets of Sydney with his brothers and sisters. That was until Rescue Hub picked him up, brought him to the AWL and (literally) into my arms when we first met. ��So…a big shoutout to all the animal rescue orgs that go above and beyond every day to give the time and love that homeless rescues deserve. Those little faces are all just waiting for their moment to pick you as their forever home ❤️

13/07/2024

Too many cats to trap and desex and sort, too many community outreach cases, and so it goes on. Due to life changes, finances and basically just being burnt out, we are winding down our activities. It's time to hand over the batton. There's seem to be more rescues who have started up which is great, more people seem to have grasped the situation that cats are in and want to help them, starting with reducing the number of kittens. I do worry about some of them though as they go hard and then it's like whoah, what has hit us?

While we still have cats awaiting adoption, and a kitten to sort out, we like most smaller rescues have found adoptions really slow, so care for kitties continues with the odd trapping expidition when I feel up to it, which isn't often. Pictured is one such expedition where the mum cat who had apparently been dumped at the park across the road according to enquiries made and her two big kittens were trapped. No one could get near her so I TNR'd mum earlier with intention of doing same with kittens when situation changed as where they were living was no longer viable. The kittens didn't want to go in the trap but with my remote trap (kindly gifted to me from Adrian) I stayed a long distance away and just waited, and waited. You can see them in bottom right of photo. Willing the little brats to stop flitting about and just go into the trap. Then they were both driven up to the very experienced and capable SAFE Animal Rehoming, thank you you legends. Mum was later trapped by the lady who was feeding her.

30/05/2024

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24/04/2024

Lest We Forget.

Picture...Signalman H.G. Gladstone, B Company, 2/5 Infantry Battalion, with his kitten ‘Tiger’.

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An endearing photograph taken in 1945 during WW2 in New Guinea. Signalman H.G. Gladstone, B Company, 2/5 Infantry Battalion, with his kitten ‘Tiger’. He found the kitten in a deserted village at Malba and it is content to ride on his shoulder. Lest We Forget. Photograph came from the Australian War Memorial. Image file number AWM 093960

21/03/2024

That's the spirit!

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=830203279149491&id=100064794788149&mibextid=Nif5oz

This is the incredible story of how the Giants started rescuing street cats.

In November last year, Giants assistant coach Craig Jennings was walking back to his car after training and noticed a malnourished cat in the bushes.

Wrapped around its neck was a plastic container, making it really difficult to breathe.

Jennings called two cat rescuers to come and take a look at sweetheart the Giants now call Greyboy.

But Greyboy wasn’t the only cat hanging around the bushes behind Giants HQ.

There was Papaya. Then there was Paw Paw.

Beyond that, there’s Pebbles, Pendles, Coco, Joey and Torti.

The Giants decided to rescue them all: afl.com.au/news/1090324

27/02/2024

Donations Needed!

This little girl was rescued by a member of the public who had reported her to us after seeing her hanging around a kebab van at a service station one night when they bought some food there.

Her left eye had erupted and was weeping. I picked her up and took her straight to the vet clinic yesterday and she underwent surgery today to remove her eye. She is staying in hospital for a couple of days while she rests, gets pain relief and cuddles. Already the vet nurses can see her sweetness emerge as the little hissy hoo from yesterday has changed. No doubt she had been in a great deal of pain.

If you can donate towards the cost of the eye removal surgery, that would really help us out with the vet bill. And greatly please the vet practice manager...!

Account Name:
Westie Cat
BSB
062 202
Acct No.
1106 0497

Ref. Black Kitten.

16/02/2024

Kylie who was rescued from the grounds of a unit block by a TNRer in the Western Suburbs along with her litter is now finally up for adoption. Yes, finally! After a long socialisation process Kylie is now a complete smooch and she loves other cats too. She and Claire are buddies and often curl up together in a cat bed or on someone's bed.

Kylie has had all her vet work done and is up to date with flea and worming. 1 year old.
Adoption fee is $180.

27/01/2024

Rescued via our community outreach, Raffi, Carlos, Madonna and Florence are delightful, smoochy and friendly juveniles who are waiting patiently for a furever home.
Please message us if interested in adopting any one or two of these sweet cuties. All vet work done, kitty litter compliant, flead and worming up to date.

26/01/2024

One of the hardest parts of colony work is finding dumped cats, more often though it's kittens. I've written about this before where I turn up with my heart in my mouth wondering what I'll find. TNRers can't fill their homes with rescue animals and do TNR, though many do. We've tried to strike a balance but it's difficult.

These poor kittens were found in the early hours of this morning in a cooler bag by the lady who feeds the colony. She is very proactive in wanting to help the cats and wheeled into action and was able to find rescue for them. Apparently there is possibly another kitty out there from same litter. Can you imagine the fear of tame kittens just dumped to get on with it? Dumping kittens and cats is revolting, anti social and destructive.

24/01/2024

Street Cat Rescue - Catmint Cottage do fantastic work helping community cats. Marg is an absolute legend and I have immense respect for her. Help her move some puddies!

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23/01/2024

So glad I finally trapped this little girl. Now I just have to trap her ellusive mum.

24/12/2023

Merry Christmas everyone.

The time has come for people in our suburbs to step up! Learn how to care for cats and kittens, learn what to do when find kittens and no mother, learn how to TNR, become a foster carer, donate to rescues and TNRers, educate your neighbours, friends, family about responsible animal ownership. Don't just leave it to the beleagered rescues, we haven't got the time, money or a shelter to help every cat or kitten that needs help. And with the Government seemingly hell bent on mass killing of community and stray cats (like that isn't already happenning now in our pounds or through their contractors), in unprecedented numbers, the situation is more dire. A civilised society treats animals with some God damn respect but we aren't seeing that out there. It's like we are living in a third world country sometimes and it is distressing.

The amount of people contacting rescues to surrender their owned cats, to report found cats and kittens, to report that the stray cat they have been feeding "suddenly" just had kittens on their property is just nuts. They seem to think we will be able to wave a magic wand and sort their situation out. Like yesterday, like right now. The calls, texts amp up just before Christmas too. It happens every year. Want it all sorted so they can enjoy a nice Christmas...

Rescues can't deal with the number of abandoned, lost and undesexed cats in particular suburbs of Sydney, namely Western Sydney and South-Western Sydney and in particular areas of NSW. If we had more community involvement, the plight of community cats could be helped far more. Are cat rescues and TNRers the only one's that care about our cats and kittens?